![]() ![]() Remove whipped cream to a separate bowl, and set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer, add in heavy whipping cream, sugar and vanilla extract and, using whisk attachment, whip until stiff peaks form, 5-7 minutes. Lightly grease a 9- by 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Amy Drew Thompson/Orlando Sentinel/TNSĨ ounces (1 package) cream cheese, softenedġ4 ounces (1 small can) sweetened condensed milkĥ ounces (1 large box) instant banana pudding mix (just the dry powder)Ībout 8 medium bananas, sliced (make sure they're barely ripe - too ripe/soft and they'll brown faster) Sweet perfection in progress as another layer of the whipped cream/pudding mixture covers the Nilla wafers and banana slices. ![]() Though this pudding - seriously, you can't mess it up! - rivals even that. all layered nicely like a torte - so yummy!" "Per my sweet mother," he wrote, "'We did have for snacking, but I also made banana pudding with them, too. Moments later, he had even more Connolly-based input. It's the kind of thing you can eat midday or at a summer barbecue without feeling too heavy or sleepy." had the right combination of fluffy cream and pudding. "I don't have a lot of banana pudding experience," he began (he hails from Pittsburgh, PA), but I love Nilla wafers. My colleague Patrick Connolly, a Nilla Wafer fan as well, reached out to his mom to get his childhood nostalgia facts straight. ![]() Not too whippy, just sweet enough."Įnough to make me wish I could take credit. Really, ratios on everything were just right. It didn't distract from the creamy consistency, but there were plenty of them. "I'm a vanilla wafers guy," he explained. One of my co-workers, Jay Reddick, a North Carolina native who knows his way around what he calls "nana puddin," was similarly starstruck. And to get the dang thing out of my fridge before I ate it all. To be honest, the Nilla wafer metamorphosis into something cake-like was even better an extra day after I served it to family, which is when I delivered the balance to some co-workers at the office. And although modern banana pudding is forever chained to Nilla wafers, which do something magical when they get just a tad soggy amid these other ingredients, the earliest incarnations of this dessert included sponge cake, as do many trifles. And when I saw the photos with this one - flaky, breakaway Nilla Wafer crumbs, swollen with dessert humidity, a glimpse of slick banana, the creamy pudding, the airy whipped cream - I had to make it.Īnd it seriously delivered on its "best ever" name.Īt its core, banana pudding is essentially a trifle, with fruit - sliced banana "coins" in this case - layered in among something cakey and something creamy. Her recipes are among my most "saved" for future exploration. Which is where The Domestic Rebel Hayley Parker comes in. I'm no serious baker, but if I can pull off a ricotta cheesecake with plums, I can for sure do up a pudding of which your Southern granny would approve. Now, banana pudding is not rocket science, which makes it an ideal recipe for me. I am about to drop into your lap what has to be the world's best banana pudding recipe - for which you need no cooking skills whatsoever. ![]()
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