Southern-Style Baked Banana Pudding Recipe

After 25 years of marriage, I have finally found a recipe that my hubby LOVES! Since it is difficult to eat the whole thing in one sitting, I divide it up into 3 Corelle 28oz pasta bowls. Though these are not rated for the 400 degree temp in the recipe, since the cooking time is so short, I have not had any issues in baking the pudding in them. The wonderful thing about these bowls is that I have the lids that go on them. This way, we can eat them over several nights without the bananas going bad. I also have used 1/2 t of banana flavoring in place of the liquor.

I am a 73-year-old guy who has owned three "coffee and dessert" shops since 1985. I made everything from scratch, including the coffee, as much as possible (I imported green coffee beans and roasted them). I feel qualified to say that this is as good a Banana Pudding recipe as I've ever had. With a few tweaks, it will be something I don't say too much . . . perfect! First, I made the recipe *pretty much* as written, taking someone else's advice and cutting the sugar back to 1/4 cup. Next time I'll eliminate the sugar. I think the natural sugars produced by the bananas are all that is needed. 2) The recipe doesn't say, but the pudding should be baked on the lower rack of the oven because the meringue will burn otherwise 3) Fresh bananas are DELICIOUS! Three-day old were not available, but after 24 hours, the difference can’t be told.

It's a pandemic, so I didn't have vanilla wafers this Christmas morning. I did have phyllo dough though. I pre baked about 10 buttered layers in Pyrex dish and doubled recipe. Yummy, I like it chilled.

absolutely delicious. I couldn't find the vannilla wafers in our grocery store here in switzerland so i used the biscuits for Tiramisu and that was very nice. Soaked up the custard and very soft.

I totally loved it, and NO baking was a plus! I prepared it exactly as instructed, with the exception of the cream of tartar-I used lemon juice instead. I’m new to the baking scene and didn’t have a hand blender, so I whipped the meringue by hand....needless to say I’ve since bought one.

Fabulously delicious with the pillowy meringue combined with the yummy custard. I think the sweetness was just right. Serving it chilled might take it down a notch. I used bourbon in place of the banana liqueur. Other than that and using just 2 bananas, followed the recipe as written. Make this one!

Chilled pudding and folded whipped heavy whipping cream to cool pudding then finished receipe as written. Best Banana pudding ever.

The pie had a very good flavor but I should have read the other reviews because it was way too sweet, 2/3 cup would have been enough sugar.

I used evaporated milk instead of whole milk, my husband said it was absolutely delicious.

1st, love this recipe! It's great! My mistake was using a baking dish that was too large for the banana slices and not having Nilla Vanilla Wafers. BUT, both of those issues turned out to be serendipitous. I used blueberries where I ran out of banana, so, about 1/3 of the dish, and I used small Madeleine's instead of the wafers. Both rocked! In fact, my son and I actually loved the blueberry portion as much as the banana. It's a new recipe, "Southern-Style Baked Blueberry Pudding!" In any case, this recipe is really, really good.

Made this using pieces of home made rum cake I had in my freezer a month after easter, instead of the vanilla wafers. Everyone loved it. I actually don't care for the traditional banana pudding made with purchased wafers, so I wouldn't make it that way. But was looking for a way to use up that rum cake and when looking for a way to use leftover cake of any kind where there's not enough to go around, this will be my go-to.

This recipe is pure madlad energy.

Memphis girl making banana pudding for 60+ yrs - NEVER SAW BANANA LIQUER. Nor do I put flour in my custard. Bananas tossed in lemon juice? Heresy…..shame on you!

I recently came upon this recipe right before the holidays, and I ended up making it twice within a couple weeks. This recipe is soooooo good. This is way better than any recipe that calls for banana pudding. I had a couple friends take two or three helpings of it after dinner. While I'm glad they enjoyed it, I was secretly mad because they did not leave much for my husband and I to enjoy! Haha! So good.

No I didn't make any changes

Great tasting banana pudding and easy to make!

Too soupy.

I'm allergic to bananas, so I rarely get to eat this type of dessert. This was my first time making it. I decreased the sugar like others suggested. Omitted the bananas, of course. I added chocolate chips like Chef John mentioned in the video. Super tasty! Would definitely make it again.

Absolutely Delicious and easy to make!

Delicious, perfect spring dish , just made 1 little change, instead of vanilla wafers, I added hazelnut wafers.