Banana Pie is a very tasty and popular fruit pie variety, primarily made from ripe bananas, flour, cinnamon, butter or margarine, fruit juice etc. Often made as a double crust pie, banana pie usually clubs ripe bananas with other fruit or fruit juice combinations like apple, pineapple, berries, coconut etc. Banana cream pie is a very close variant of the ordinary banana pie, which uses milk or condensed milk, egg yolk, whipped cream etc as the ingredients thus giving the pie mix an appealingly creamy consistency. Banana pies usually take in vanilla extract and also invite good amount of commercial cheese variety, especially to soften the pie mix. A very easy variant of the banana pie may substitute instant banana pudding mix for real bananas. Also, a much healthier type of banana pie replaces flour with corn starch. One of the yummiest of fruit pies, banana pie is highly versatile to take in any of the favorite pie toppings on it.