Time Article and Gross Dessert

An article in Time Magazine was recently published about Mormons. Unfortunately, the article was supposed to focus more on LDS families, but apparently the editor cut a third of the story out at the end despite a promise that Prop 8 would not be the focus. Still an interesting article, and the writer visited families in my home ward, Alameda Ward, to write the article. Here is the link.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1904146,00.html


Anyways, I thought I would try something new for dessert this weekend. It was called Banana Split Cake.

It ended up being a big pile of really gross mush. Nothing like the picture. Sometimes, a big pile of mush can end up being really good, but this was not the case. I read the recipe, but I did not think about 1. How unhealthy this is and 2. All the ingredients together just don't sound very good. The layers bottom to top are: graham cracker crust, cream cheese with sugar mixed in, pineapple, bananas vanilla pudding, whipped topping and another layer of bananas and pecans if you want, but I left them out. Thankfully, I cut the recipe in half so I didn't waste as many ingredients. Jacob decided he liked the vanilla, whipped topping and bananas so he ate them and then we door bell ditched the rest in paper bowls. I would have felt bad throwing it all away myself.