20 Truly Delicious Banana Pudding Recipes

Our selection of easy banana pudding recipes includes both classic options and creative new twists.

Baked Banana Pudding

Banana pudding is an incredibly delicate, beautiful, and simple dessert. It's perfect for a holiday table or a family dinner. In less than an hour, you'll have enough for 8 servings. And best of all, it can be made any time of year, as bananas are always available in stores.

Banana Chess Pudding

This delicate banana pudding is packed with dual banana flavors from fresh banana slices and instant banana pudding, while cream cheese adds a velvety, dense texture. It's easy to make and perfect for a crowd. This recipe features checkerboard cookies, but you can use any butter cookies you have on hand.

Banana Pudding Cupcakes

Enjoy all the flavors of banana pudding in one cupcake. The cupcake batter is infused with crushed vanilla wafer cookies, a staple in classic banana pudding, along with banana chunks. Each cupcake is filled with a soft, velvety white chocolate filling, reminiscent of vanilla pudding. The dessert is topped with a buttercream frosting topped with a slice of banana and a circle of wafer cookies. The perfect treat for any occasion, or when you're craving banana pudding.

Layered banana pudding

This dessert has everything you'd expect from a traditional banana pudding: thick, silky cream, vanilla wafer cookies, fresh bananas, and whipped cream. All the ingredients are layered on a plate, and after the pudding has rested in the refrigerator and the cookies have softened slightly from the cream, the texture is perfect.

Light Tropical Banana Pudding

The pudding, thickened with cornstarch, is as thick and velvety as homemade custard, but contains far less fat and calories. And the coconut milk drink, which replaces regular cow's milk, along with pineapple and bananas, gives the dessert a subtle tropical flavor.

American Banana Pudding with Cookies

This American banana pudding recipe features vanilla wafers drizzled with banana liqueur and topped with banana-vanilla custard, fresh banana slices, and whipped cream. Quick and easy to make, this pudding is perfect for the whole family or for guests. You're sure to love this delicious, sweet, and creamy dessert.

Warm Salted Caramel Banana Pudding

Silky vanilla pudding topped with salted caramel bananas is the perfect dessert for any occasion. It's ready in just 15 minutes and uses simple ingredients that many people already have in their kitchen. This recipe is perfect for when you're craving something delicious in a hurry or when you need a treat for a special occasion. Served in a simple low glass or a ramekin, it looks very elegant.

Banana Pudding Tart

This elegant tart features all the ingredients of a classic banana pudding: fresh banana slices, custard, vanilla wafer cookies, and sweet meringue. Its highlight is the caramelized crust, reminiscent of crème brûlée. Toasted sugar on the surface adds a caramel flavor that pairs beautifully with the vanilla pudding and bananas. If you don't have a torch to toast the sugar, you can broil the tart for a few minutes in the oven on preheated broiler mode.



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Peanut Butter Pudding with Bananas

These adorable mini pudding cups are perfect for party favors or as a dessert after a holiday dinner. You can customize the ingredients to suit your taste preferences and available ingredients: for example, use crushed Oreo cookies instead of vanilla wafers, or add a little strawberry jam, which pairs beautifully with peanut butter.

Classic banana pudding

The most important ingredient in delicious banana pudding is homemade custard with natural vanilla, which achieves the perfect consistency in this recipe. It's not too thick, but not too runny either. A small amount of heavy cream also affects the pudding's texture, making it incredibly velvety. Once the banana pudding has completely set in the refrigerator, top it with whipped cream and sprinkle with crushed cookies.

A wonderful dessert with bananas in a jar

For this dessert, you can use store-bought vanilla pudding or your favorite recipe. Layer it in individual jars, alternating with crunchy cookies, bananas, and peanut butter. Let it sit for a few hours to soften the cookies, and enjoy at home or on the go.

Chocolate banana pudding

One of the most harmonious flavor combinations, banana and milk chocolate, makes this delicate pudding a special dessert that can be made for both holidays and everyday use. It's also quite simple to make. Pour the chocolate cream over airy cookies and banana slices and let it set. Once the cookies are soaked in the cream, the pudding will acquire its perfect consistency, making it hard to stop eating. With every spoonful, you'll want more.

Vanilla-banana pudding

This version of pudding, similar to banana custard, could be called "lazy." However, despite the less hassle involved in preparation, the result is in no way inferior to the traditional dish. Be careful when cooking banana pudding, as it tends to splatter when boiling.

Banana Pudding Cookie Cake

Banana pudding is typically made as a standalone dessert, but it's also perfect as a cake filling, as it's essentially part custard. This cake is easy to make, and the result is beyond praise—the delicate pudding soaking up the crispy wafer layers will leave no one indifferent.

Banana pudding with chocolate whipped cream

Banana pudding is a traditional American dessert made with vanilla custard, bananas, and whipped cream. Although banana pudding is often made with cookies, this recipe doesn't call for them, as puddings were originally made without cookies, as evidenced by old recipe books. This version of pudding is also easier because it doesn't require baking. The dessert is ready after chilling in the refrigerator. Top it with whipped cream and serve.

Banana pudding in the oven

Traditional American banana pudding, though popular throughout the country, is considered a Southern dessert. Delicate vanilla custard, bananas, and cookies are layered in a pan, topped with meringue, and baked in the oven. The texture of the pudding depends on how long you let it sit in the refrigerator before baking. If you like the crispy cookie bits in the pudding, you can bake it right away. The longer the pudding sits, the more the cookies will soak and soften, turning into a creamy mass. This is why American vanilla wafers are the best choice for banana pudding, but if you can't find them, try substituting any other light cookie that soaks well in custard.

Light banana pudding

This dessert is almost identical in taste, appearance, and texture to classic banana pudding, but lower in calories and fat. It eschews traditional ingredients like butter and heavy cream, using low-fat milk, just one egg, and a tiny bit of sugar. Reduced-fat sour cream gives the pudding its velvety, creamy texture and creamier flavor. Layered with banana slices and fluffy wafer cookies, the pudding quickly soaks in the luscious vanilla cream, so serve as soon as possible.

Banana and Muffin Pudding

Instead of cookies, this recipe uses banana muffins to add more flavor to the dessert.

Quick banana pudding

Throwing a spontaneous party? Serve your guests this easy banana pudding, ready in just 35 minutes.









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