Recipe: Perfect Best HOMEMADE Banana Pudding
Best HOMEMADE Banana Pudding. Banana pudding is one of our all-time favorite desserts. It's a classic Southern recipe, and for good reason; luscious layers of pudding, whipped cream, ripe bananas, and wafer cookies are completely impossible to resist. How to make real Old Fashioned Homemade Banana Pudding!
This Southern Banana Pudding is an heirloom family recipe and classic Southern dessert! Airy meringue atop creamy banana pudding is a delicious This banana pudding recipe is about as much of a comfort food in the South as it is a dessert. This Homemade Banana Pudding recipe is a classic Southern dessert made with layers of sliced fresh bananas, an easy homemade custard, Nilla wafers, and If you love southern food like I do, you might also want to check out the dishes I shared for Alabama as well. You can cook Best HOMEMADE Banana Pudding using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Best HOMEMADE Banana Pudding
- You need 1 cup of Sugar.
- You need 3 of Eggs.
- It's 2 Tbsps of Flour.
- It's 2 cups of Milk.
- You need 1 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
- You need 4 of Ripe Bananas.
- It's 1 Box of Nilla Wafers.
Banana Pudding is one of those recipes I dream about. Below you will also find directions on how to use cool whip or homemade whip cream to give your Banana Pudding that extra silky taste. A homemade stovetop pudding is poured over a vanilla wafer crust and sliced bananas, topped with meringue, and baked. This recipe is old and authentic!
Best HOMEMADE Banana Pudding step by step
- Mix sugar and eggs in a medium saucepan.
- Add flour and milk, stirring to combine.
- Bring to a boil, stirring frequently and cook until thickened. Use the wooden spoon method (dip spoon onto pudding and drag your finger in a straight line through the pudding on the spoon. If it dribbles into the line you made, it's not ready)..
- Stirring frequently is important or it will burn and not look pretty.
- Once thickened, take off heat and continue stirring to cool. Add vanilla..
- Pour over a vanilla wafer and banana layer in an 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish. Double recipe for a thick 13x9 dish. Repeat..
- Refrigerate 1 hr for best results.
Oh my goodness, it is really that good!!! To make banana pudding, in a large saucepan, mix together sugar, flour & salt. Whisk them together till they combine properly. Pour in the milk & whisk well. You can serve the banana pudding in glass jars, casseroles or bowls.