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Magnolia Bakery Banana Puding Recipe is a copycat from the famous Magnolia Bakery! It’s the easiest (and BEST) banana pudding recipe you will ever make – it’s sweet and fluffy with tons of banana flavor.
I wasn’t always the biggest fan of banana pudding, but after trying this one, I was hooked. Magnolia Bakery is a famous New York bakery and their banana pudding is downright amazing. They make their pudding in single serve cups and in pints you can buy and it’s so freaking delicious. I knew I had to recreate it!
This pudding recipe layers delicious bananas, whipped topping, and Nilla wafers! It’s easy because it starts with pudding mix and uses sweetened condensed milk which makes it creamy and sweet. I have made a lot of banana pudding recipes over the years, but I especially LOVE this one!
Magnolia Banana Pudding Ingredients
- Pudding Mix: The recipe uses instant vanilla pudding mix. You could also use banana or cheesecake flavor, but make sure to use instant.
- Sweetened Condensed Milk: Adds sweetness and thickness to the pudding mix. Do not use fat free.
- Nilla Wafers: Vanilla wafers cookies soften and taste like little bites of cake in the pudding.
- Bananas: Use bananas that are yellow so they’re ripe but not overly so or they’ll turn too brown. We’re not making banana bread, so we want them just ripe so they will last in the pudding.
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Dorothy’s Testing Notes
- Make sure you are buying vanilla instant pudding, not classic. Cheesecake or white chocolate pudding would be delicious too, or any flavor you like.
- Be sure to fold the whipped cream into the pudding gently – if you stir it too hard the pudding will become wet.
- Don’t skip the chilling step – that is essential for the recipe to set up.
Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 ¼ cups (297ml) ice cold water
- 1 3.4 ounce box instant vanilla pudding
- 3 cups (704ml) heavy whipping cream
- 1 12 ounce box Nilla Wafers
- 4 cups sliced bananas, about 5-6 bananas
Instructions
- Add sweetened condensed milk, water, and pudding mix to a medium sized bowl. Whisk or mix with a hand mixer until combined, about 2 minutes. Cover and chill 3-4 hours or overnight. You want the pudding to set properly.
- In a large bowl, beat whipping cream until stiff peaks form. You can use a hand or a stand mixer. Gently fold the whipped cream into the pudding mixture.
- Assemble your pudding by placing 1/3 of the wafers in the bottom of a large wide bottomed bowl. Top with 1/3 of the bananas and 1/3 of the pudding. Repeat the layers twice and garnish with wafer crumbs.
- Wrap tightly with plastic wrap and chill at least 4 hours before serving. You can chill up to 8 hours but it’s not recommended to chill it longer than that.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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How to make Banana Pudding
1. This recipe takes some time so plan accordingly. When you first mix the pudding, sweetened condensed milk, and water it will be very thin and watery. you must let it sit several hours or overnight to thicken.
2. Make sure the freshly whipped cream with heavy cream is at stiff peaks.
3.The trick to not making the mixture soupy is to fold it not stir it!
4. Layer the pudding mixture with cookies and sliced bananas in a trifle dish or large bowl.
In the video you mention what to do with the ice water but don’t mention it in the written recipe.
The ingredients call for “ice cold water”
So I saw this and was curious what they did special… my mom has been making this exact recipe for longer than the Magnolia people have been alive lol I think she got it off the back of an Eagle SCM can
It’s funny to know their famous pudding is a knockoff!
Love banana pudding.
Sounds wonderful.
We made this for our Fathers Day dinner because my father in law loves banana pudding and it was a hit! Absolutely delicious!
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