dizzy buttered banana pie pops

so a few days after making the apple pie-ettes, my wife is at Sam’s Club & texts me a picture of a frozen box of mini pies that looked strikingly like the pie-ettes, although theirs were filled with apple pie goo instead of a whole apple, & had no nuts, it was still the same concept. Anyway, I had these things on my mind & love the concept of hand-held pies, & anything on a stick just rules, which is the story behind the next generation:

the star of the show



cut in half, insert a popsicle stick, then pop in the freezer for a while to stiffen them up



Melt a bag of caramels (the popsicle sticks come in the bag, for caramel apples)



Dip the bananas, coating well



Roll in crushed nuts then place on wax paper or parchment, then into the fridge to set



Wrap in pie dough (I tried finding the premade stuff last week, couldn’t , was pissed :evil: , was forced to figure out how to make it :ermm: , found out it’s pretty easy, wasn’t pissed anymore , takes about 5 minutes to make, 2 cups of flour, cut in 1/3 cup butter & 1/3 cup shortening, pinch of salt, cinnamon, & nutmeg , 4 to 5 tablespoons of water, mix, roll out – not sure why I spent my whole life thinking that was some kind of mystery :huh: )



I made these about 2 hours in advance, so back into the fridge while dinner was prepped & cooked



I did the pie-ettes indirect and in a buttered cast iron pan, then removed to the grid to finish. With the banana pops, I skipped the cast iron, & just painted on pineapple-headed butter, then placed on the grid sitting on top of the inverted plate setter, foil covered in the event of a blowout & massive caramel lava flow. The temperature was somewhere in the 4-500 range, not sure because it kind of got away from me, beverages & all…



the finished banana pie pops cooling on a rack



After about 10 minutes, on the plate:



A little powdered sugar (I suppose you could amp this up further with a scoop of vanilla ice cream… but it was indeed delicious as-was)



Have a great weekend all, happy here in the ‘killer-free’ hut, Marc