RECIPE: Banana Split Cake - Myrtle Fee Vaughn and Myrtle Vaughn Shoupe

2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs                1 large can crushed pineapple

1 stick melted margarine                     2 bananas, sliced

1 (8 oz.) cream cheese                         1 large container Cool Whip

1 stick margarine                                 sprinkle of pecan pieces

2 cups confectioners’ sugar

Mix vanilla wafer crumbs and 1 stick melted margarine and spread in bottom of glass dish. Combine cream cheese, 1 stick margarine and confectioner’s sugar and beat until fluffy.

Spread on top of wafer crust.

Drain pineapple and spread on top of the cream cheese mixture; slice bananas placing them on top of crushed pineapple.

Spread Cool Whip on top and sprinkle with pecan pieces.

NOTE: This is one of the favorite recipes of “The Two Myrtle’s” – Myrtle Fee Vaughn and Myrtle Vaughn Shoupe. Ms Alberta’s mother Myrtle Vaughn “Mom” Shoupe had a brother named Cecil who married Myrtle Fee. The two got along very well and soon became know as the two Myrtles’. They were both diabetic but it did not keep them from making one of these Banana Split Cakes and splitting it right down the middle.

The two got tired of hearing that they never shared the cakes and started making two at a time so they could still get their “fair shares”.