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,
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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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