If you love bananas and pudding, you are going to enjoy the sweet taste of magnolia banana pudding. This recipe contains layers of creamy vanilla pudding, bananas, and vanilla wafer cookies, all of which will leave your mouth watering for more! It’s a tasty dessert that is quick and easy to make!
Ingredients
3tbspcornstarch
2tbspsugar
⅛tspkosher salt
2large eggs
2Cmilk
6tbspsugar
1tbspvanilla extract
2Cheavy whipping cream
1tbspsweetened condensed milk
2boxes of mini nilla wafer cookies
6large bananas
Instructions
Using a little bowl, whisk together the cornstarch, sugar, and salt
Using a large bowl, whisk the eggs until they are light in color
Whisk in the cornstarch mixture
Using a large saucepan over medium heat, whisk together the milk and 6 tbsp sugar
Whisk gradually until a slow boil starts
Remove from heat and slowly pour the hot milk into the eggs mixture, whisking constantly to avoid curdling the eggs
Place mixture back into the pot over medium to high heat and whisk constantly until the mixture starts to thicken
Whisk in the vanilla and remove from heat
Using a large bowl, place a handful of ice and about 1-2 c of water to create a ice bath
Place the hot pot into the ice bath to cool down
Once cooled, remove from the ice bath and scoop the pudding into a bowl and set aside
Using a standing mixer, beat the heavy whipping cream and condensed milk until soft peak start to form
Scoop ½ C of the whipped cream into the bowl with the pudding and whisk until combined
Fold in the remaining whipped cream into the pudding
Using your favorite dish, start to build you pudding
Using a rolling pin or food processor, grind up about 2 C of the cookies into crumbs
Spoon some pudding onto the bottom of the dish and spread evenly
Lay a even layer of the nilla cookies onto the pudding
Sprinkle cookie crumbs evenly over the cookies
Scoop about ¾ C of pudding over the crumbs and spread evenly
Place a layer of sliced bananas
Repeat steps again to finish building your pudding
Place into the fridge until ready to serve
Use an ice cream scoop to scoop the pudding out into bowls before enjoying