Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, banana pudding. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Banana pudding is a dessert generally consisting of layers of sweet vanilla flavored custard, cookies (usually Vanilla Wafers or ladyfingers) and sliced fresh bananas placed in a dish and served, topped with whipped cream or meringue.. One-bowl Banana Pudding With Coconut Whipped Cream, Southern Banana Pudding Pie, Banana Pudding Brownies (or Banana Pudding Blondies). A classic Southern banana pudding made with a custard-based vanilla pudding, sliced bananas Banana pudding is a classic Southern dessert, well-loved for its creamy texture and comforting.
Banana Pudding is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Banana Pudding is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook banana pudding using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Banana Pudding:
- Prepare 35-45 Nilla Wafers
- Make ready 5-6 medium size ripe bananas sliced
- Take 3/4 cup sugar divided
- Get 1/3 cup all purpose flour
- Take Dash salt
- Prepare 4 eggs, separated, at room temperature
- Get 2 cups milk
- Get 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Make ready Optional : top with additional nilla wafers or try my never fail meringue
The banana pudding has bananas throughout and vanilla wafers. The best part about the wafers, is that after this pudding rests for a while, they become soft and cake like. Banana Pudding pairs creamy smooth vanilla pudding with chunks of sweet banana and crunchy vanilla wafers. Some like to layer this dessert, like an English Trifle, so you can see the separate.
Steps to make Banana Pudding:
- Combine 1/2 cup sugar,flour and salt in top of double boiler. Stir in 4 egg yolks and milk; blend well.
- Cook, uncovered, over boiling water, stirring constantly; 5 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
- Spread small amount on bottom of 1 and 1/2 quart casserole dish; cover with layer of nilla wafers. Top with layer of sliced bananas. Continue to layer wafers, bananas and custard to make 3 layers of each, ending with custard.
- Now you can stop here and just add additional wafers to the top and enjoy or make a meringue to cover the top by beating the egg whites until stiff but not dry; gradually add remaining 1/4 cup sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Cover top of pudding spread to cover entire surface. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until slightly browned. Cool slightly and eat or refrigerate.
- If you don't have much luck making meringue, reference my recipe for Never Fail Pie Meringue.
This sweet, rich, and creamy banana pudding recipe goes light on added sugars and big on fresh banana flavor! This easy Homemade Banana Pudding recipe is the best I've ever had! Creamy, rich and almost mousse-like banana pudding that tastes just like Grandma used to make. No, no, not that banana pudding. Rather than a layered dessert of vanilla pudding with sliced bananas and vanilla wafers, this is a banana-flavored pudding.
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