Easy Banana Pudding Recipe
This Easy Banana Pudding Recipe has just 8 ingredients that will taste like you spent hours making this classic Southern dessert. We use instant pudding for ease and Madeleine's cookies for extra rich flavor. It's a great dessert recipe to make in advance and be sure to make extra, everyone will be asking for more.
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Servings: 15
Ingredients
- 2 boxes Instant vanilla pudding 5.1oz
- 6 cups cold whole milk for pudding
- 2 blocks cream cheese 8oz
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk 14oz
- 6 ripe bananas
- 8 oz cool whip
- 1 package Madeleine's cookies 28oz
Instructions
- Make pudding according to box instructions and place in fridge to set.
- In a large bowl combine cream cheese, vanilla extract, and sweetened condensed milk until smooth.
- Add pudding and beat until smooth.
- Crumble 1/2 package of cookies in a deep dish 9 x 13 pan, reserving 3 cookies for top.
- Add 1/2 of pudding mixture and smooth out.
- Slice 3 bananas and add to pudding.
- Repeat above process for a 2nd layer.
- Top with cool whip and smooth out evenly.
- Place 1 cookie in center as decoration and crumble other 2 on top.
- Place in fridge and allow to chill. Enjoy!
Notes
Expert Tips
- Make sure to chill the banana pudding for at least two hours. This help the layers to set and also gives the pudding it's rich banana flavor. We recommend even refrigerating the day before, it only gets better with time.
- Soften the cream cheese before mixing. You want to make sure it's room temperature so it incorporates into the mixture evenly and smoothly.
- Swap Cool Whip for homemade whipped cream. Just beat 1 cup of heavy cream with 1/4 cup of powdered sugar until stiff peaks form using a hand mixer.
- Buy ripe bananas. This is so important, a good banana pudding recipe is only better if the bananas are ripe!
This is the best banana pudding. I’ve been making this recipe for years. The only difference is I use Pepperidge Farm’s Chessmans Cookies. They are expensive but good.
Happy Easter 🐰..just made this and boy do I have a picky bunch! Everybody loved this! Thank you for my forever receipt.. this is delish! BTW saw you on tic-tok God bless..
Thank you! 🙌
Looks delicious
I will try this
Can you make this the night before?
Yes, might wanna give the bananas a quick dip in lemon juice to keep them from turning brown.
Yes, Same Here
A yummy dessert I can actually make thankyou can’t wait to taste
Best easiest recipe. Thank you so much for sharing it. It will now be a staple in my home.
Have a great day and keep giving us your awesome recipes.
The best l ever seen!!
I want to say thank you for a great banana pudding recipe I’m really excited about this and my family is like who made this I was like I did they don’t believe me actually they want to know where I bought the banana pudding so I showed your recipe and they were like wow this is the best banana pudding recipe ever made
Good to the last crumb.
WoW!!!