This delicious Southern Banana Pudding Recipe is a quick and easy no bake dessert that contains instant pudding mix and sweetened condensed milk to make it sweet and creamy. It's sure to be one of your new favorite desserts, try it!
If you're craving more classic southern dessert recipes then be sure to try making Easy Sweet Potato Pie, Chocolate Delight, and Sour Cream Pound Cake.
Being raised in the South, it should come as no surprise that many of my fondest memories of being with family included food in some way. Food was and still is a big part of birthdays, church gatherings, holiday celebrations, and family reunions.
At any one of these events, you would definitely find on the table cornbread, collard greens, fried chicken, candied yams, pound cake, and banana pudding just to name a few. Yep, I come from a big family so that means lots of food.
Now at these family gatherings, someone was always going to ask who made what because some relatives are just known for making certain delicious dishes. My mom makes amazing potato salad, my aunt makes delicious buttery cornbread, and my cousin makes the best homemade banana pudding ever. His banana pudding is so good in fact, that no one has ever been able to get their hands on his special recipe, but that will not stop me from sharing my recipe with you that I believe is pretty darn similar and just as tasty.
When you make a homemade banana pudding recipe there are 3 very important elements that you absolutely must have and they are bananas (obviously), vanilla wafer cookies, and pudding. To make a good banana pudding you want to choose bananas that are ripe but not mushy. For the vanilla wafers, you can choose according to your preference of brand. When it comes to pudding you can make it from scratch or a box, again this is a preference and depends on how much time you have. These are the basics, but if you want to take an extra step and create a meringue topping or use a pre-made whipped topping that will give you everything that you need to create a banana pudding for any get together.
Want More Easy Dessert Recipes? Try These:
- Chocolate Delight Recipe
- No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake
- Homemade Banana Pudding (Made from Scratch)
- Oreo Dirt Pudding
- Vanilla Ice Cream (No Churn)
- Boston Cream Pie
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📖 Recipe
Homemade Banana Pudding Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 to 8 ripe bananas, sliced
- 2 boxes vanilla wafers
- 2 cups milk
- 1 can 14 oz. sweetened condensed milk
- 1 box 5 oz. instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 container 12 oz. whipped topping
Instructions
- In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, mix together the vanilla pudding mix, milk, and condensed milk until well blended and thick.
- Arrange the vanilla wafers in the bottom of a baking dish, top with a layer of sliced banana, and top by spreading the vanilla pudding.
- Repeat all of the layers, top with the whipped topping, and sprinkle some crushed wafers on top.
- Refrigerate the homemade banana pudding recipe for 3 hours.
Nutrition
*All nutritional information is based on third party calculations and is only an estimate. Each recipe and nutritional value will vary depending on the brands used, measuring methods and portion sizes per household.
Original post date 02/01/2017. Updated 04/26/2024.
Trina Lawton
Sounds yummy;
LaKita
Thank you Trina!
Elnora Fournier
Christmas 🎄 is my favorite holiday too Sweetie. Thank so much for reminding me about one of my favorite Desert banana putting. My grandmother 👵🏾 should me how to do this when I was a little girl.
LaKita
Thank you! That is awesome. I learned from my mom and I'm always sad to see Christmas go.
Akaleistar
Banana pudding is a staple of family get-togethers!
admin
Yes!! It is at my family gatherings as well 🙂