Black Folks Southern Banana Pudding

• servings: 12 servings
• active time: 30 minutes
• total time: 40 minutes

Ingredients

3 bananas (ripe & sliced into banana rounds)

4 ⅗ oz. vanilla pudding (instant pudding or Cook-&-Serve)

3 cups milk (for the pudding mix)

8 oz. whipped cream (1 container)

8 oz. cream cheese (1 container, whipped-version)

11 oz. Nilla Wafers (1 box and ¼ cup of crumbled Nilla Wafers cookies)

Directions

Prepare the pudding according to the instructions on the pudding box mix and set it aside in the refrigerator. (I made Jell-O Cook & Serve Pudding by heating the pudding mix with milk on the stovetop until it boiled, then I let it cool to thicken.)

Mix the whipped topping and cream cheese in a medium-sized bowl and set aside.

Line the bottom and sides of a baking pan or dish with Nilla Wafers cookies.

Add a layer of banana slices over the Nilla Wafers.

Using a small spatula, spread the vanilla pudding evenly over the bananas.

Add a layer of the whipped topping and cream cheese mixture over the pudding layer.

Repeat the above steps for a second layer of cookies, bananas, pudding, and whipped topping.

Then, sprinkle the ¼ cup of crumbled cookies over the top layer of whipped cream.

Allow the banana pudding to chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Banana pudding is easiest to slice after being refrigerated, then serve, and enjoy!

Nutrition

• Calories: 339 kcal
• Total Fat: 17 g
• Saturated Fat: 9 g
• Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
• Trans Fat: 0.1 g
• Cholesterol: 41 mg
• Sodium: 258 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 42 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1 g
• Total Sugars: 26 g
• Protein: 5 g