Southern-Style Baked Banana Pudding – A Meliorate Banana Cream Pie

If you lot similar banana cream pie, you’ll absolutely dear baked banana pudding. Not alone is at that spot no piecrust to mess with, but I mean value the vanilla wafer cookies distich fifty-fifty to a greater extent than perfectly alongside the fruit together with custardy pudding. 

Speaking of banana cream pie, don’t fifty-fifty mean value of skipping the meringue topping. Sure, whipped cream, or God foreclose “whipped topping,” mightiness hold upward a tad easier, but nosotros involve to usage upward those iv egg whites anyway, together with thence produce it right.

As I said inwards the video, this is classically made inwards a clear drinking glass bowl or deep baking dish, together with thence that you lot tin come across the beautiful banana pudding beneath the meringue. That is a peachy look, but equally long equally it’s oven-safe, together with you lot tin stand upward for everything in, whatever baking dish volition work. We’re non actually “baking” the pudding, but simply browning the top, together with thence the depth or shape of the pan isn’t actually that important.

What is of import though, is that you lot usage overnice ripe, soft bananas. We desire them roughly the same texture equally the custard-soaked cookies, to actually larn the sum effect, together with thence brand certain you lot purchase them at to the lowest degree a calendar week earlier you lot brand this. Other than that, non much tin become incorrect alongside this Southern classic. In fact, this is together with thence simple, together with kid-friendly, it’d hold upward a peachy affair to brand for mom on Mother’s Day, which is why I actually promise you lot laissez passer on it a crusade soon. Enjoy!

Recipe adapted from Alton Brown's Famous Version
Ingredients for 8 Portions:
(I used a 10-inch baking dish)
For the pudding:

1 box vanilla wafers (you’ll convey extra)

3 or 4 rattling ripe bananas, peeled, together with sliced

1 1/2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

For the custard:

4 large egg yolks

1/2 loving cup granulated sugar

1/3 loving cup addition 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon fine salt

2 cups milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 tablespoon banana liquor, optional

1 tablespoon mutual frigidity butter

For the meringue topping:

4 large egg whites

1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar

2 tablespoons white sugar

- Bake at 400 F. for 7-10 minutes, or until nicely browned
-- I mean value this is best served cold, but suit yourself! 

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