Banana Pudding

Banana pudding is comfort-food dessert of bananas, custard, and cookies, especially popular in the South.

Where It’s From

Its exact origin is uncertain, but it likely descends from English trifle, which also layers custard, fruit, and whipped cream.

What are the Ingredients of Banana Pudding?

Of course, bananas are essential, as is custard.  The best versions use freshly made banana flavored or vanilla custard. It is more common to use a boxed banana pudding mix. Nearly all cooks rely on Nabisco Nilla Wafers, which can be found in your local grocery.  If you are a more ambitious chef, you can make your own vanilla cookies, as they did at Nashville’s esteemed Loveless Cafe.  Some pudding recipes simply layers cookies atop the custard, which makes them retain their crispness. More typically, the cook mixes the vanilla wafers straight into the pudding so the parts stay crisp, but some pieces soften over time. Whipped cream or Cool Whip serves as a topper, but some recipes leave this out altogether.

Maximum Comfort

This pudding usually comes cool or cold. But it is a comfort food that is better when it is served at room temperature.

Common in meat & 3 cafes and in cafeteria lines, banana pudding earns highest accolades as dessert after a spicy meal, such as BBQ or Nashville hot chicken.

Trivia

Fact: When Elvis secluded himself at Graceland, banana pudding was a favorite indulgence.

 

Restaurants With This Dish

Martin’s

MONTGOMERY, AL

Helen’s BBQ

BROWNSVILLE, TN

Whole okra pods fried with a delicate crust
Fat Man’s Cafe

AUGUSTA, GA

Fish Eye Grill

GIRARD, GA

Cafe 209

AUGUSTA, GA

Lupie’s

CHARLOTTE, NC

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