Banana Cream Cheesecake

For this banana cheesecake recipe, the vanilla cream topping takes a little extra time to make, but it really completes the dessert! A friend of mine couldn’t make up her mind between banana cream pie and cheesecake for her birthday, so I came up with this rich and creamy concoction.

Ingredients

Original recipe (1X) yields 12 servings

Crust:

• 1 ¼ cups vanilla wafer crumbs
• ½ cup ground walnuts
• 5 tablespoons butter, melted

Filling:

• 4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 ⅛ cups white sugar
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 ripe bananas, mashed
• ¼ cup banana liqueur
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

Topping:

• 1 ½ teaspoons unflavored gelatin
• 3 tablespoons cold water
• 1 cup milk
• ⅓ cup white sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups heavy cream, chilled
• 12 vanilla wafer cookies