Cream Cheese Custard with Caramelized Bananas
- Crust
- 2 qt. graham crumbs
- 3 cups slivered almonds, toasted, chopped
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2-1/2 Tbsp. dark chili powder
- 1-1/2 cups butter, melted
- Custard
- 2-1/2 qt. canned evaporated milk
- - Philadelphia Brick Cream Cheese, softened
- 24 each eggs
- 1-1/2 qt. sugar
- 2 Tbsp. vanilla
- Topping
- 12 each large bananas, each cut into 46 very thin slices
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. dark chili powder
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- Crust: Mix all ingredients; press 2/3 cup (150 mL) onto bottom of each of 24 (4-inch) springform pans (or onto bottoms of 6 4-inch springform pans for trial recipe).
- Place in parchment paper-lined half-sheet pans.
- Set aside.
- Custard: Add all ingredients, in trial-batch measures, to blender; blend until smooth.
- Pour 1 cup (250 mL) over each crust.
- Bake in 375 degrees F-standard oven 40 to 45 min.
- or until knife inserted near centres comes out clean.
- Cool completely.
- Refrigerate 4 hours.
- Topping: Arrange 23 banana slices, slightly overlapping, in concentric circles on top of each custard.
- Sprinkle with sugar.
- Brown tops with butane torch.
- Sprinkle with combined chili powder and cinnamon.
- Run metal spatula around rims of pans to loosen custards.
- Remove rim before cutting each custard in half to serve.
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Taken from www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/cream-cheese-custard-caramelized-bananas-112659.aspx (may not work)