Chocolate Banana Pudding

Forbidden Rice Blog | Chocolate Banana Pudding

I think chocolate pudding was amongst one of the first things I learned how to cook. And by that, I definitely don’t mean the method below. I mean the Jell-O instant pudding stuff… like this. What I didn’t know then was how easy it is to make pudding from scratch. Pudding that is made up of ingredients I recognize, not stuff like tetrasodium pyrophosphate, artificial flavoring, and weird food colorings (who needs to food-color a brown-colored pudding?!). The taste of homemade pudding versus the stuff from a box is reason alone to make this dessert! It’s decadent, rich, not overly sweet but perfectly chocolatey.

The other day I was craving banana pudding (my mother-in-law is the queen of banana pudding making, by the way)… but I was also craving chocolate. So I thought, why not just smash-bang the two into one dessert?

Forbidden Rice Blog | Chocolate Banana Pudding

Chocolate Banana Pudding

Serves roughly 6-8 folks.

Ingredients:

2 cups whole milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
4 teaspoons cornstarch
2 egg yolks
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
15-18 chocolate wafer cookies *
3 medium sized ripe bananas, peeled, then halved and cut into thin layers
optional sweetened whipped cream

*I used these, but if you want to make homemade wafers, please feel free…

Forbidden Rice Blog | Chocolate Banana Pudding

Forbidden Rice Blog | Chocolate Banana Pudding
Directions:

Prepare the pudding: In a medium sized pot, whisk together the sugar, cocoa powder and cornstarch until well combined. Pour in the milk. Bring to a simmer, whisking over medium heat. Continue cooking over medium heat, whisking constantly, until the pudding thickens, about 5 to 10 minutes.

Add a couple tablespoons of the hot pudding mixture to your egg yolks, stirring constantly so you don’t end up with scrambled eggs… Pour the tempered egg yolks into the pudding. Whisk the pudding over low heat, also adding in the vanilla and salt until completely combined. Remove from the heat.

Forbidden Rice Blog | Chocolate Banana Pudding

Prepare the final dessert by layering five chocolate wafers in a 2-quart glass casserole bowl.

Forbidden Rice Blog | Chocolate Banana Pudding

Next, add 1/3 of the chocolate pudding, smoothing out the top. Add banana slices in a single layer, to cover the pudding, followed by an additional layer of chocolate wafers. Add another 1/3 of the pudding, followed by a layer of bananas, then cookies.

Forbidden Rice Blog | Chocolate Banana Pudding

Finally add the last 1/3 of pudding. Cover the bowl tightly and refrigerate for at least 2 hours (this will soften the cookies between layers). When you’re ready to serve the pudding, you can add a layer of whipped cream and crumbled chocolate wafers. Or you can serve as is, or topped simply with crumbled wafers.

Forbidden Rice Blog | Chocolate Banana Pudding

Forbidden Rice Blog | Chocolate Banana Pudding

About Julie Hashimoto-McCreery

28 year old food blogger and writer.
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3 Responses to Chocolate Banana Pudding

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  2. beatrix mana says:

    When I was a child I would sometimes spend a weekend at my grandmothers house and she would make homemade chocolate pudding,oh that was so tasty. Now I have your recipe I will have to make some. Thank you. Also, the chocolate wafers, I have not been able to find them at any grocery store near us anymore. I use to make a Yule log out of them with whip cream in between each wafer and then spread all around it. Chill it and cut slices on a slant. That was delicious also. Thank you ever so much.

    • Julie Hashimoto-McCreery says:

      The first time I had these wafers was in a birthday cake, similarly put together like the yule log you’re talking about! I’m glad you’ll be able to make the pudding! :) It really is such a simple, classic recipe.

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