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The Best Banana Pudding Recipe Online

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Vanilla pudding made from scratch layered with bananas & cookies
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword banana, banana pudding, dessert, homemade, pudding
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 50 minutes
Servings 8

Ingredients

  • 2 cups whole milk
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1-½ teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 2-3 tbsp sweetened condensed milk
  • 3 large bananas sliced
  • 2 packages of cookies use any butter cookies you like or nilla wafers

Instructions

  • Add the first 5 ingredients to a cold pot and whisk to combine. Turn your burner to medium heat. Stir. Don't take your eyes off the pudding because it can thicken quickly. Also don't stir more than 3-4 times before it thickens.
  • When the pudding starts to thicken, stir with a spoon making sure the pudding doesn't stick the bottom and sides of the pan. When the pudding is thick enough to coat the back of the spoon, turn off the heat and add butter and vanilla. Stir to combine.
  • Strain the pudding through a mesh strainer, seal with plastic wrap touching the surface of the pudding, & refrigerate about 3-4 hours or overnight.
  • Add heavy cream to your stand mixer (or use hand mixer) and whisk until the cream starts to thicken. Add sweetened condensed milk and continue to whisk until the whipped cream forms stiff peaks.
  • After pudding is chilled, gently fold in whipped cream until fully incorporated.
  • Slice bananas and crush cookies.
  • Layer pudding, cookies, bananas in a bowl or mason jar and refrigerate for 1-2 hours to soften the cookies and combine the flavors. Serve and enjoy!