Banana Cream Tart with an Oatmeal Cookie Crust

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Get your party pants on! Chocolate Banana Cream Tart with an Oatmeal Cookie Crust is happening today and I'm ready to stuff the entire thing in my face.

Chocolate Banana Cream Tart from www.whatsgabycooking.com (@whatsgabycookin)


 

Where do I even begin! This is everything you could ever want all rolled up into 1 dessert. Made with an oatmeal cookie crust, and then layered with a pastry cream, sliced bananas, drizzled dark chocolate and sliced almonds on top - it's seriously a dessert for the record books and it's going on my Easter brunch menu this year!

Banana Cream Tart with Chocolate from www.whatsgabycooking.com (@whatsgabycookin)

A few weeks back I spent the weekend at the Four Seasons Westlake where we made this tart for one of the dinners in the Wellness Kitchen. I couldn't get enough - so I snagged the recipe and took it home, made a few very minor tweaks, and then served it up for me, myself and I. Okay, in reality I shared it with my entire team at the studio and Thomas got a few slices here and there while I was tweaking. It's perfection.

Chocolate and Banana Cream Tart from www.whatsgabycooking.com (@whatsgabycookin)

Banana Chocolate Cream Tart

Author: Gaby Dalkin
5 from 4 votes
Get your party pants on! Chocolate Banana Cream Tart with an Oatmeal Cookie Crust is happening today and I’m ready to stuff the entire thing in my face.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Chill 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 8 servings

Ingredients
  

For the Crust

  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 2 tablespoons whole wheat flour
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons super finely chopped almonds
  • ¼ cup butter melted
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

For the Filling

  • 1 cup half and half or heavy cream
  • 4 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract

For the topping

  • 3-4 bananas sliced on a bias
  • 2-4 ounces dark chocolate melted
  • 1 tablespoon thinly sliced almonds

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • In a medium bowl, combine the oats, flour, sugar, almonds, butter and vanilla. Mix until well combined.
  • Spray a 9 inch tart pan with cooking spray. Press the crust mixture on the sides and bottom of the pan. Bake for 20 minutes until lightly browned. Cool completely.
  • Start on the filling. In a small pot, bring the half and half and sugar to a simmer until the sugar is dissolved. Once warm, reduce heat to medium and whisk in the egg yolk and continue to whisk for 2-3 minutes until smooth. Add flour and pinch of salt and stir to combine. Lastly, add the butter and almond extract and stir to combine, remove from heat.
  • Transfer the pastry cream into a bowl and chill for 30 minutes. Once chilled, pour the pastry cream into the chilled tart shell. Arrange banana slices on top and drizzle with the melted chocolate and sprinkle with the slivered almonds

Notes

You can go as simple or as fancy as you'd like with decorating the top of your tart. Feel free to use chocolate, nuts, whipped cream, whatever floats your boat.

Nutrition Information

Calories: 319kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 54mg | Sodium: 87mg | Potassium: 340mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 390IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 87mg | Iron: 1mg
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Photo by Matt Armendariz / Food Styling by Adam Pearson

38 Comments

  1. Can’t wait to make for Easter morning!
    Question: can the pastry cream be made in advance (day before) or should it be made day-of? Thanks!

  2. Eeeeek!! And squeeeeeaaaal! I haven’t been this excited to make dessert in a long time. Thanks for this amazing recipe! Making it mañana!

  3. Made this today, crust was great, definitely a keeper. Thanks Gaby.

    Filling was okay but not outstanding, may try a different filling and not use whole wheat flour in the filling if I repeat as it had brown flecks.

    Drizzling melted chocolate from a piping bag improves the appearance, used about 2.5 medium bananas, 3 oz chocolate, 3 Tbsp almonds on top also.

    Lovely pie, perfect for Easter, now to see how appearance of fresh sliced bananas hold with chilling to determine how far in advance I can make it in the future. Next time, will try with peanut butter filling.

  4. After adding the flour it only says to stir until combine... . Don't you need to cook it longer to get the flour taste out?

  5. OH MY GAWD- I want to shove my face in that! I love that that there is an oatmeal cookie crust!!!

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