Banana Trifles

The Original Pin

      If you hadn't noticed....I'm on a bit of a banana kick. I used to hate bananas. With a passion. But then one day my roommate bought some and I saw her eating one and I thought to myself, dang, that looks delicious! So I went to the store and bought myself 3 bananas. I ate the first one and it was SOOOO good. Now I really, really like bananas. And I've bought like 10 more since then.
     I also chose this pin because I had to redeem myself from the last banana treat that didn't turn out so well...and my mom was  needed to make these trifles for a Young Women's activity, so she helped me a lot. It worked out well.
     Making these trifles was unbelievably easy, but maybe that was just because my sister was helping, my mom was helping, and my adorable nieces and nephews were helping too. Many hands truly do make light work, and we had these trifles made in less than a half hour.
     The first step to making this delicious treat was to make banana pudding from a pudding mix, that part was easy and then you make another mixture of some sort....I forgot what it had in it but I'm pretty sure it was cream cheese with cool whip and sweetened condensed milk. We mixed each of those together separately and then combined them.
     That part was really cool because one mixture was white and the other one was yellow, so when they were stirred together it looked like a really cool swirl. Ok, enough about that....after the pudding mixture was put together we got to do the fun part, assembling the trifle.
     We laid out the cups and began by putting vanilla wafers on the bottom layer. After that, we put the pudding, then banana slices, followed by more pudding and then we topped it off with cool whip and a vanilla wafer. And to add a little pizazz we sprinkled heath bar crumbs over the top.
      They looked so dang good! Seriously. I was very proud of my family....we worked together and accomplished a wonderful thing. We made food! Except I didn't get to eat any of it which is extremely depressing.
      How am I supposed to properly rate it without even getting to eat it? Oh well, I'll just base my rating on easiness of execution and aesthetics. I'll tell you what, it was super aesthetically pleasing. In a major way. If I saw that in a window of a bakery I would race in to the store and see how much it cost, and if it was a reasonable price then I would definitely purchase it. And eat it. A lot of it. And I guess even if it was a little expensive I might consider buying it still just because it looked that good. I'm a poor college student and I would probably break my bank for this.
      That is why I am giving this pin a 8.97. I would have given it a higher score if I could have tasted it because I'm sure it was delicious. But still an 8.97 is an amazingly high rating. That is as good as hot chocolate on a snowy day. Actually, hot chocolate on a snowy day while you're sitting by a window and the Christmas tree is up is like a 3000 out of 10. So I guess it's almost as good as that. So yeah, this is a good pin. Do it. Enjoy it. Live long and prosper!

The ingredients...ok so the bananas are super ripe. Don't judge, we wanted them to be sweet!

Slice the bananas, don't they look pretty!

The two mixtures about to be combined...

Combining them....doesn't it look cool?

Beginning the assembly.

Another layer added.

Bam! The final product. They look dang good!

Yummy! And killer presentation might I add. :)

   

Mini Fruit Pizzas? I Think Yes!

The Original Pin

Step One: Putting the cookie dough on the tray.

Step 2: Cream Cheese Frosting

Step 3: Cutting the Fruit

The Finished Product! :)

What is better than sugar cookies, cream cheese frosting, and fresh fruit? I'm going to have to say there is nothing in the world that even comes close to beating that! Not even baby kittens. That’s a big deal. 
Now, this pin was fairly easy to execute. I bought cookies in a package so that all I had to do was throw them in the oven and make sure to set the timer. I wanted to have a foolproof plan, but let's be real. Nothing is fool proof. 
After I put the cookies in the over, I began cutting up the fruit. 
Naturally I pretended that I was Rachel Ray, a cooking extraordinaire, and tried to make every slice precise. And once again, naturally I ended up with non-glamorous blobs of fruit…fail (ok maybe I exaggerated a bit, it wasn’t a major failure). Trying to redeem myself from the not so great cutting job, I turned my attention towards the frosting. I then pulled a typical non-homemaker move; I tried to rush things and became impatient. 
I took the cream cheese straight out of the fridge and, without letting it soften, put it right in the bowl with the powdered sugar and began mixing them together. It’s not like it didn’t work, it’s just that it didn’t work well. At all.
 So now I have burnt cookies, (I burnt the cookies by the way) chunky frosting, and blobs of fruit. Solid! Why am I so good at life?! (if you couldn’t tell that was a hint of sarcasm). It was sad. I'm the worst. The cookies were crunchy. BUT, they were still super delicious which made me so happy! Even though I messed up on them, they still tasted like heaven! 
So I highly recommend this recipe. It was so easy, that even I could do it! Me! A non-crafty, non-homemaker can do it! Seriously though, I decided while making these cookies that I'm not very good at being a girl. Girls are supposed to be amazing at baking and amazing at sewing and things like that and I'm just straight up not. It’s a sad life I lead, not being very good at being a girl. But that's beside the point, the point of this is to say how great the pin was and let me tell you, this pin was WONDERFUL!
 I would give it an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10.  And when I say 8, I mean that it’s frozen yogurt good.  That’s dang good! Seriously, it was so easy, all I had to do was put the cookies on a sheet and throw them in the oven, cut up some fruit, and mix cream cheese with powdered sugar to make the best cookies ever! I highly recommend this pin.
 My only advice would be to let the cream cheese soften prior to making the frosting….that was kind of a big mistake. I’m good at doing that. But that’s what’s so great about life, we can learn from each others mistakes! So now all of you can make delicious cookies without burning them and without making chunky frosting. I hope you enjoy! :)