Welcome back everyone to Katherine's
Plates. It's time for some banana
pudding creaminess with a little crunch
from some cookies, some texture from the
bananas, some flavor. It's going to pull
it all together. This is an easy recipe,
and it comes out of my first cookbook,
making home cooking simple, easy, and
delicious. This cookbook came out eight
years ago. Now, you are able to follow
through with this recipe today and write
down your own recipe if y'all want to.
Or you can find the actual recipe on my
recipe blog, catherine'splates.com.
Now, woo. Usually, you need some very,
very fresh bananas for this recipe. But
you can see I'm going to be using these
right here.
They're ready to go. [laughter]
So, that's how he's going to get them,
which is fine because it's they're
sweeter that way, right? Okay, we're
going to go ahead and get started. I've
got a large mixing bowl. To that, we're
going to add one package of cream
cheese, 8 oz. You want to leave this
out. You can leave it out for about 1
hour. I wouldn't leave it out any longer
than that because it is a milk product.
And if you need, if you just pulled it
out of the refrigerator, you can take it
out of its little packaging here, put it
on a microwave safe plate and then
microwave it for about 10 seconds, 10
seconds until you get to a nice kind of
smooth consistency. You don't want it
runny. All right? Because it's got to
hold everything together and we're not
cooking anything.
All right? So, let's add that to our
large mixing bowl.
We got the sunshine out today. We needed
it, that's for sure.
All right, so I'm going to just kind of
press down on my cream cheese. And I
feel like I'm going to microwave that
for about 10 or maybe 20 seconds and
make sure it's nice and soft.
All right, let's look at it. Yep. 10
more seconds.
All right. Oh, yeah. That's if if you
could get your spatula through it like
that, that is creamy enough. Just make
sure you only do it in 10 second
increments because you don't want it
melted in there. Just nice and creamy
like that.
[snorts] Y'all looking forward to six
more weeks of winter.
Is it coming? [sighs and gasps]
Oh my goodness. We're in Southeast Texas
and that's a little much for us.
A little much. All right. Now, I'm going
to take my electric hand mixer and I'm
going to beat this until it's nice and
creamy.
Cream cheese smells so good, doesn't it?
Yeah.
The next thing we're going to do is add
in one can of sweetened condensed milk.
Now, this is 14 oz.
It's going to add such a yumminess to
this dish.
All right,
get you a can scraper. Get all that
excess out.
[sighs]
And then once we get all of that out,
there's nothing wrong with tasting it.
Wow. That's like a dessert on its own.
[laughter]
[snorts]
All right, let's talk about the next
ingredient. Y'all be real in your
kitchen. [laughter]
I am using a familysiz box of vanilla
instant pudding and pie filling. It's
the powder.
You want to get the instant, not the one
that you have to cook on your stove top.
Okay? You don't want that one.
Um, let me tell you how many ounces. 5.1
oz size.
If you're [snorts] following along with
the directions, there you go.
Oh my gosh, y'all. I just Where did that
happen? Oh.
All right.
Can y'all see what happened? [laughter]
Oh my gosh. Okay. Hopefully there's
enough left in here to help set this up.
Where did it Oh, I see it down there at
the bottom. All right. Be careful when
you do that.
My god.
There we go. Let's see if we got enough
in there because I got it all over the
floor.
Powder all over the place over here. All
right. That's okay. You get a free
blooper today.
[laughter]
[snorts]
Was I being funny? Too funny or
something? Yep. Okay. All right.
All right. We're gonna cream this all
together
and I'm going to clean up a mess on the
floor.
[laughter]
Y'all let us know what y'all do in your
kitchen. What happens in your kitchen? I
know what happens. Let us know. Let's
talk about it. Yeah.
The worst thing that I've done is I have
caught my oven on fire.
Had to get a brand new oven.
And then I was pulling a casserole dish
out of there and I went to lay it down
on the counter and it hit the side of it
and went everywhere. Broke my beautiful
casserole dish, too.
Yeah. So, hey, let us know cuz we're all
human. All right, y'all. Can y'all see
that in there?
Yeah. All right, let's see what's next.
It's been a while. Ask Thomas. He knows.
All right, let me go get three cups of
cold milk.
All right, back to the regularly
scheduled program. We're going to
slowly, while we're mixing
the three cups of milk into our pudding,
cream cheese, and sweetened condensed
milk mixture in there
very slowly.
That way it doesn't splash on you.
Oh, smells good.
Want to make sure this is nice and
smooth.
Since I lost a lot of the pudding on my
floor, I'm not going to finish putting
all that milk in. I'm worried I'm not
going to it's going to thicken up too
much. So, we're just going to go with
this right here.
And no, Thomas did not see all this
happen. He was gone running errands.
[gasps]
You'll see it on camera. Don't worry.
[laughter]
All right. Now, what we're going to do
is add in one teaspoon
of vanilla extract. Clean up this right
here. There we go. And we'll just beat
that in just until combined.
Y'all, it smells good in there.
That is it.
Always quality check.
You don't want to serve your husband bad
banana pudding, do you?
Wow,
that's delicious. All right, let's take
the beers off. We're done
all of that.
All right. Next.
Do you always feel like you're having
one of those days?
[laughter]
I am right now. It's just banana
[snorts] pudding, too. All right. Now,
what we want to do is fold in half of
our whipped topping. Let me go get that,
which is this right here. This is 8 oz.
And we're going to be putting in 4 oz
into there. And we will save the other 4
ounces for the end of the recipe. All
right. Now, I did thaw this out.
Remember, save that for the rest of the
recipe. Just hang on to it. We're going
to grab our spatula and we're going to
fold it in. Folding in just means pull
from the bottom and fold through the
whipped topping. All right, we're going
to do this until all those white streaks
are gone. All
right, let's set this aside. We're going
to bring over a mediumsiz
serving bowl and vanilla wafers.
There we go. We're going to be a little
creative with this. As you can see, this
was a beautiful shot of my banana
pudding. So, we're going to do that.
It's kind of a checkerboard look between
the cookies and the bananas.
And we're going to do a layer of that.
So, take your vanilla wafers.
Yep. And we're going to place them in
the bowl.
I'm going to do them
the top side facing outward.
And then we'll put banana slices in
between and then build our way up. You
can do this any way you want. [gasps]
That's just the way I'm going to do it.
And we'll slice up some bananas.
calls for about four mediumsized
bananas.
Now, if you peel the banana from the
bottom upward, you don't get a lot of
the string.
[snorts]
All right. So, I'm just going to slice
them
that thick.
Place a cookie. the banana, the cookie,
and then I'm gonna keep doing that
to get a checkerboard look to it. Just
do it something like that. We are going
to take half of that pudding mixture and
put it in the center. We'll just pour it
in.
Here we go. Just half. Just smooth that
out.
We're going to layer some cookies on
top.
And then we'll put some sliced bananas
on top.
There we go. Because we're using a
vanilla pudding and so we want banana
flavor through there. And I don't want
artificial banana flavor through there.
So I am not doing the banana pudding.
Okay. You can if you want
give you more banana flavor, but like I
said, I don't want it like that. All
right. We're going to pour the rest of
the mixture on top.
There's nobody here right now to lick
the beater,
the spatula, and the bowl. So, I know
that's sad, isn't it? [sighs and gasps]
We're going to place the rest of that
Cool Whip that we saved. That's 4 oz.
Now, I'm going to dollop it. Make it
easier to spread.
Then I'm just going to kind of dollop
it.
I kind of want to cover the top here.
Leave an inch or so of that pudding
mixture free.
There we go. Now I'm just going to take
my spoon and do this. Get nice little
peaks.
Now we're going to take some vanilla
wafers and we're going to crush them on
top.
All right, you guys.
There's my banana pudding. What do y'all
think?
Oh, beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.
Beautiful. Now, if you have the
patience, you can put this in your
refrigerator, cover it with some cling
wrap, and let it chill so that that
pudding mixture sets up. Or you can dive
in with the biggest spoon you can find.
Yeah. Okay. and then enjoy your banana
pudding. All right, you guys, give me a
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spoon?
All right, let's go in.
Why not?
That's banana pudding. All right, you
guys. I'll see y'all on the next
episode. Bye.