Dessert elegance: Banana cream … sphere
Nicole Earl, pastry chef at Cut at the Palazzo in Las Vegas, makes an updated banana cream pie. (Heidi Knapp Rinella/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Cut at Palazzo presents its unique take on banana cream pie. (The Venetian)
A large group of San Francisco 49ers players made a post-Super Bowl loss visit to Cut at Palazzo, where they indulged in dishes including the restaurant’s unique banana cream pie.
It’s made with banana ice cream, custard and compote, house-made Cool Whip, vanilla wafers and 24-karat gold leaf layered into a milk-chocolate sphere (which was dyed red for the team’s visit). When the warm banana-caramel sauce is poured over, the sphere melts into a flowerlike shape, revealing the banana bounty within. It’s $20.
The Review-Journal is owned by the family of Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson. Las Vegas Sands operates Palazzo.
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