Black Bottom Banana Cream Pie

This has got to be the best pie ever known to mankind. :)

1 precooked pie crust
1 12oz container of cool whip
1 package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups cold milk
1 pkg 5.1 oz vanilla instant pudding
2 medium bananas
Strawberries for garnish

Microwave 1 1/2 cups of whipped topping and chocolate chips on high for 30-45 seconds; stir until smooth. Spread on bottom of pie crust. Mix milk and pudding until thickened. Fold in 1 1/2 cups whipped topping. Slice bananas over chocolate. Spread pudding mixture over bananas. Refrigerate 30 minutes. Garnish with remaining whipped topping and strawberries.

Apple Pie

I found this recipe and thought it was an interesting way to do apple pie. I made it and it was sooooo good.

Filling
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
8 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and sliced

Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer.

Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work of crust. Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off.

Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft.

Pastry:
3 cups of flour
1 cup + 2 T shortening
1 1/2 tsp. salt
7 or so T cold water

Combine flour and salt; cut in shortening with pastry blender till mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle cold water, 1T at a time, evenly over surface; stir with fork till all ingredients are moistened. Shape into 2 balls.