How to Make Banana Pudding
What better way to wind down a cookout than with a dessert of cool, creamy banana pudding, garnished with vanilla wafers and fresh banana slices? This custardy treat is served all across the country, but it's particularly popular in the South, where people have been passing down family recipes for how to make banana pudding for many generations.This delicious treat is actually a cinch to make, and it can be prepared ahead of time and kept in a refrigerator or cooler, making it perfect for outdoor entertaining or picnics. Better yet, with a few key substitutions, the classic recipe for banana pudding can be made over into a version that is significantly lower in fat, calories and sodium. So, you can go bananas for this delectable dish without having to feel guilty about asking for seconds...or thirds.
Transcript
Hi, it's Miranda with recipe.com, and today, we're gonna be
making a healthified banana pudding. Now, this is a made
over version of that original banana pudding recipe that actually
has 32% less calories than the original, so your waistline
will certainly thank you, and I have our ingredients all
laid out here. So, let's get started. So for ingredients,
we have 3 cups of fat-free milk. We have 2
boxes, 4 serving size each of French Vanilla Instant Pudding.
We have 4 containers, 6 ounces of each of Yoplait
Original 99% Fat Free Banana cream or French vanilla yogurt.
Today, we're using French vanilla. We have one container, an
8 ounce container, of frozen fat free whipped topping, which
has been thawed. We have 48 reduced fat vanilla wafer
cookies, and then here we have small bananas, which has
been sliced, serve again. We are going to add our
pudding mix and our milk together, and I will definitely
recommend using either in electric mixer like standing electric mixer
or little hand mixer. And you wanna mix this together,
and we're gonna add in our yogurts. Now, just wanna
make sure you don't have any lumps. I'm just keep
up my speed a little bit, beautiful. Now, we're gonna
fold in our whipped cream, so literally, this gonna put
it in like this, and then you fold it. So,
we wanna keep the fluffiness of the whipped cream, right
we want fluff here, we want yummy, creamy, fluffy goodness.
So, we don't wanna stir it too much. We don't
wanna whip or beat it into submission. We want to
fold it in, gently fold. So, just keep on doing
that until nicely combined. Okay, now I have an ungreased
of 13 x 9-inch pan, and we are going to
line about them with half of our vanilla wafers, 6
x 4, we've got our 24 here. Now, we're gonna
spoon half of the mixture over the top, spoon that
on in. We're just gonna smooth it over and you
wanna be gentle because you do have this wafers under
there. You don't want them to be round too much.
Okay. Now, it's time for bananas, and we're gonna arrange
all of our bananas on this next layer. This is
a bananafiric layer. You get this all down. Okay, so
our bananas are all beautifully laid out. Look at this.
So next step is to put the rest of this
pudding mixture over the top. Spoon it over with smoothing
as you go. Okay. Do a nice little scrape. We
don't wanna lose any of this yumminess. I wanna smooth
it out and I make sure that those corners get
nice and covered. Whoever gets one of those end pieces,
you want to be just as happy as a middle
piece person. Okay, so now, our last step is just
to cover this at the top of the layer with
the remaining 24 vanilla wafers. Okay, so there we go.
Look how pretty this is, so retro looking, isn't it?
It's like a cute little yummy nummy on top of
your banana pudding. So, now ready to go. You're done.
All you have to do is just cover this, Pop
it into the refrigerator for 3 hours, let it chill
for at least 3 hours to let it nice and
thickened up and cool and yummy, delicious. No more than
8 though. Your bananas will get kind of soggy and
oxidized if you do it any longer than 8 hours,
but 3 to 8 hours, then you are ready to
serve this delicious healthified banana pudding. Thanks for watching, and
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What You'll Need
- 3 cups fat-free (skim) milk
- 2 boxes (4-serving size each) French vanilla instant pudding and pie filling mix
- 4 containers (6 oz each) Yoplait® Original 99% Fat Free banana creme or French vanilla yogurt
- 1 container (8 oz) frozen fat-free whipped topping, thawed
- 48 reduced-fat vanilla wafer cookies
- 6 small bananas, sliced
- Additional banana slices for garnish, if desired
Step By Step
1
In large bowl, beat milk and pudding mix with electric mixer on low speed until well mixed; beat in yogurt. Fold in whipped topping.
2
Place 24 vanilla wafers in a single layer in ungreased 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish. Spoon half of the pudding mixture over wafers. Place 6 sliced bananas over pudding mixture. Spoon remaining pudding mixture over bananas. Arrange remaining 24 vanilla wafers over top of pudding.
3
Cover; refrigerate at least 3 hours but no longer than 8 hours. Just before serving, garnish with additional banana slices.
4
No change.
Once you add how to make banana pudding to your cooking repertoire, you'll have an easy-to-make, sure-to-please, go-to dessert for almost any occasion.
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