Best Salted Caramel Banana Pudding Ever!!
The East Village is full of community gardens, and we recently joined the one on our very own block. Our first step was to sign up on the waiting list for a plot (ti will probably take about a year) and to volunteer to participate in the garden’s annual Potluck Dinner. I aimed to impress with a knock-em-dead dessert, and took advantage of the opportunity to take a stab at a recipe that had been recommended to me a while back: Paula Dean’s Not Yo Mama’s Banana Cream Pie.
I stuck to the basic recipe, save for adding a dash of fresh nutmeg and making homemade whipped cream, which is quite simply heavy cream whipped with an electric handheld blender until stiff peaks form. I also used a great jarred salted caramel from my market- there are a lot of great recipes available online, but after a traumatic experience at my in-laws last Thanksgiving I chose to skip this extra step!
The pudding was a huge hit at the garden party, and doesn’t it just look great on top of the checkered table cloth?
Happy summer! Here’s to 3 months of warm weather, parties, and eating with friends and loved ones outside in the open air!
Best Salted Caramel Banana Pudding Ever!!
Author: Cooler Kitchen
Ingredients 6 to 8 bananas , sliced ¾ salted caramel 2 cups milk 1 (5-ounce) box instant French vanilla pudding 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk 12-ounces Fresh Whipped Cream (from about 2/4 cup heavy cream) 1 tsp nutmeg 3 bags Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies (the recipe calls for 2 but I needed 3)
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 6 to 8 bananas, sliced
- ¾ cup salted caramel
- 2 cups milk
- 1 (5-ounce) box instant banana or vanilla pudding
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 12-ounces Fresh Whipped Cream (from about 2/4 cup heavy cream)
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 3 bags Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies (the recipe calls for 2 but I needed 3)
Instructions
- Line the bottom of a 13 by 9 by 2-inch dish with 1 bag of cookies and layer bananas on top. Drizzle the salted caramel over the bananas.In a bowl, combine the milk and pudding mix and blend well using a handheld electric mixer. Using another bowl, combine the cream cheese and condensed milk together and mix until smooth. Fold the whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture. Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture and stir until well blended. Pour the mixture over the cookies and bananas and cover with the remaining cookies. Refrigerate until ready to serve. (Recipe Courtesy of Paula Deen)
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