Description
Creamy chocolate banana pudding fluff blends rich dessert traditions with nostalgic comfort. Smooth chocolate layers and ripe banana notes create a luxurious treat you’ll crave again and again.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 bananas (ripe, sliced)
- 8 oz cream cheese (softened)
- 8 oz cool whip (or homemade whipped cream)
- 3.4 oz instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup milk (cold)
- ½ cup powdered sugar (optional)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup vanilla wafers or graham crackers (crushed)
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips or crushed chocolate cookies
- Banana slices (extra)
- Chocolate shavings or cocoa powder
- Whipped cream (dollops)
Instructions
- Pudding Preparation: Whisk chocolate pudding mix with cold milk in a large bowl until completely smooth, eliminating all powder lumps and creating a uniform mixture.
- Thickening Stage: Let pudding rest for several minutes, allowing it to naturally set and develop a rich, creamy consistency.
- Fruit Integration: Delicately fold sliced bananas into the pudding, ensuring even distribution without breaking the fruit’s delicate structure.
- Texture Enhancement: Crush vanilla wafers into irregular fragments and gently disperse throughout the pudding, creating a delightful textural contrast.
- Layering Technique: Construct elegant dessert layers in serving glasses or a large dish, alternating between pudding, banana slices, and cookie crumbles for visual and gustatory complexity.
- Chilling Process: Refrigerate the dessert for minimum one hour, enabling flavors to harmonize and allowing the pudding to achieve optimal texture and temperature.
- Finishing Touches: Embellish with additional wafer crumbs, fresh banana garnish, or a subtle cocoa powder dusting just before serving to elevate presentation and flavor profile.
Notes
- Whisk Wisely: Blend pudding mix and milk thoroughly, eliminating powder lumps by using a vigorous whisking technique for a silky-smooth base.
- Banana Preservation: Slice bananas gently and fold delicately to maintain their shape, preventing unnecessary bruising or mashing during mixing.
- Chill for Perfection: Allow minimum one-hour refrigeration to enhance flavor melding and achieve optimal pudding consistency and texture.
- Customize Creatively: Experiment with gluten-free wafers for dietary restrictions or replace vanilla wafers with graham crackers for alternative crunch and flavor profile.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 9
- Calories: 225
- Sugar: 14 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 9 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 31 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 25 mg