Tuesdays With Dorie. Banana Ice Cream Pie- An Inspirational Day!

Sometimes a recipe is complete. From the moment you see the picture or you read the ingredients you decide, I want to make THAT. But sometimes a chef's ideas spark a sense of adventure. This recipe called for chocolate ice cream, a banana/rum/lemon infusion and a coconut/shortbread crust. My interpretation: Vanilla ice cream, a banana/rum/lemon/cinnamon and dulce de leche infusion with a coconut/graham crust.

Dorie's cookbook encourages substitutions by suggesting different ways a recipe could be interpreted. Much like a singer's decision to reinterpret a song in a new way. It's all you. The American Idol judges tell the contestants, and they've told Crystal and Lee from the start, great things happen when you are true to yourself. (Woah, did you see Crystal tonight? She was amazing. Her final song, Up to the Mountain was nothing short of magnificent. I love Lee's story of humble beginnings and his undisguised vulnerability, but if this is a singing competition, the winner is the woman.)

Now back to the baking! In the spirit of reinvention and discovery of my inner baking DIVA, I challenged myself to find  a way to play with this recipe because honestly, I don't much like chocolate and bananas together. I made the dulce de leche myself– I'll have the complete instructions on how to do that on Thursday, May 27– and I feel a swell of pride. Thanks Dorie. And the Tuesdays with Dorie gang of people who make this such a fun challenge each week. 

Thanks to Spike. Spike of spike.bakes selected Banana Coconut Ice Cream Pie.