This recipe for chocolate banana cream pie makes extra pudding, so the cook can have his or her own private snack.

Use good-quality chocolate for the pudding. If desired, the bananas can be omitted.

This old-fashioned dessert offers great taste because it's made from scratch with no shortcuts. 

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