Banana Pudding
Banana pudding, every which way — Better Than Your Grandma's Banana Pudding, banana pudding cake, cheesecake, and fluff, for potlucks and Sunday dinner.
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dessertBetter Than Your Grandma’s Banana Pudding
This is the only banana pudding my family will eat from here on out. It isn’t strong on the “banana” and extra strong on the wafers. Perfection!
Victoria ThompsonIngredients
- 2 11 oz. boxes Nilla wafers
- 16 oz. (softened) cream cheese
- 1 5 oz. box instant vanilla pudding mix
- 3 cups whole milk
- 16 oz. (thawed) Cool Whip
- 5-6 plus more for garnish ripe bananas
Instructions
- 1Mix softened cream cheese with a hand mixer until smooth.
- 2Add the instant pudding mix and cold milk to the cream cheese and mix on low, then increase speed and blend. Let stand for 5 minutes.
- 3Slice bananas as thin as possible and set aside.
- 4Fold half of the Cool Whip into the cream cheese mixture until fully incorporated.
- 5Layer a single row of wafers in the bottom of a 9x13 inch dish, then add another layer on top in between each wafer.
- 6Add a layer of sliced bananas on top of the wafers.
- 7Spread half of the pudding mixture over the bananas.
- 8Repeat the layers with remaining wafers, bananas, and pudding.
- 9Top with remaining Cool Whip and crushed wafers.
- 10Chill in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours before serving.
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Banana pudding is the pan that comes home empty. It's wafers, sliced bananas, and something creamy in between, and nobody has ever turned down a bowl of it.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when there's a potluck Saturday, a church supper, or a Sunday dinner that needs a dessert made the night before.
Every recipe here is a version of that pan: Better Than Your Grandma's Banana Pudding with cream cheese, Granny's homemade banana pudding cooked on the stove, Magnolia Bakery's with sweetened condensed milk, banana pudding cake, Banana Pudding Cheesecake, Banana Pudding Fluff, and even Banana Pudding Rice Krispies.
Quick Tips
- 1
Chill it overnight
Give the pudding at least 4 hours in the fridge, or overnight, so the wafers soften into cake-like layers.
- 2
Use spotty bananas
Bananas with brown freckles are sweetest; slice them about 1/4 inch thick so they hold their shape.
- 3
Keep the slices covered
Tuck every banana slice under pudding or whipped topping so air can't reach it and turn it brown.
- 4
Soften the cream cheese
Let an 8 oz block sit out 30 minutes before beating, or you'll get lumps that never smooth out.
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