Banana Pudding is the perfect recipe for using up 5 overripe bananas. So easy to make and pure comfort food, no wonder it’s so popular. Just serve with ice cream!
NB: I first published this recipe for Banana Pudding (one of our favourites) in January 2014 so it was in serious need of a photographic update as my photography has vastly improved since then and my equipment has too. I’ve come to realise we have a slight banana addiction judging by the number of banana recipes I’ve posted! So anyway back to the original post:
After the excesses of Christmas we all need to tighten our belts and save money where we can. Reducing our food waste is a good place to start. As a nation we all throw away far too much food as we just don’t get round to using it before it perishes.
If you’re anything like me, sometimes your fruit bowl just gets just a bit out of control and before you know it a whole hand of bananas has suddenly gone from ripe to overripe. Yes you can make banana cake but this usually only uses up a couple of bananas and yes you can freeze bananas but mine tend to never see the light of day once they’ve ventured into the freezer!
So Banana Pudding has become my go to recipe when it comes to saving lots of over ripe bananas. It won’t win any beauty contests but it’s gooey in the middle, crispy around the edge and is delicious with a scoop of vanilla ice cream – true comfort food. Even better it’s quick and simple to make and can will happily stay in a warm oven until you’re ready to serve it. My family love this pudding and polish it with gusto. It’s great to see fruit which looked fit for the compost heap make such a delicious pud – definitely a win win situation for your purse and your tummy!
I do hope you try my Banana Pudding but for more banana pudding and dessert inspiration you might like the following:
- Banoreo Cheesecake
- 3 Ingredient Banana Nutella Pancakes
- Hazlenut Chocolate Banana Delight with Meringue
- Banana & Chocolate Quesadilla
- Sin Free Chocolate Mousse
- Upside-down White Chocolate Banoffee Shortcake
- Banana & Raspberry Ice Cream
- Baked Rum Bananas
- Vegan & Gluten Free Banoffee Pie
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Banana Pudding
Ingredients
- 5 large ripe/overripe bananas about 900g – 1kg unpeeled weight
- 50 g butter melted
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 115 g caster sugar
- 1 egg beaten
- 115 g plain flour
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.
- Grease a 20cm round dish.
- Mash the bananas into a pulp.
- Mix in the melted butter, vanilla extract, sugar, beaten egg and sifted flour.
- Pour into the dish and bake for 45 minutes until golden brown.
- Serve with cream or vanilla ice cream.
Katie
Successfully used up 6 (!) over ripe bananas. I added chocolate chips on the advice of my toddler. Worked a treat and no faffy ingredients. Thanks so much, this is getting bookmarked.
Camilla
Excellent, would you toddler like a job with me? Will try that myself next time:-)
Mary J. Rojas
I can’t find caster sugar. Can I use granulated sugar?
Camilla
Yes I’m sure that will be fine.
Christine Walton
Delicious! Adapted to what I had in. Added sultanas as only had half quantity of bananas, and used part dark brown soft sugar, and part granulated. Worked really well, would make again! Thank you
Camilla
Fabulous, glad you liked the recipe and your additions:-)
Anne Rutledge
Just wondered, no raising agent, is that righ?. Thanks Anne
Camilla
Hi Anna, it’s not a cake so doesn’t rise, so yes that is correct:-) I have used self raising flour by accident and it made no difference at all.
Imogen
Thank you so much for this delicious, yet simple recipe. The only problem is – I have become addicted to it and so has my husband! He has been abroad for the past 3 weeks and guess what he has requested upon his return – your banana pudding.
Camilla
Aaw, so glad you both like it. It’s our go to recipe when we have over-ripe bananas.
Allie
We love this recipe! My son takes it to school in his packed lunch and devours it!
Great for using up all those old bananas without going overboard with tins of other ingredients!
Camilla
Awesome Alie, so glad you and your son are enjoying this recipe. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve had it here:-)
Marge
Hi i dont have a scale. I need directions using spoons and cups
Camilla
Hi, I really advise you to buy a set of scales as you can’t convert a weight to a volume accurately. There are conversion websites that you can Google.
Barbie Javier
I’ve never baked in my entire life and thought I’d try to put the oven to good use. I had overriped bananas and found this recipe.. I was surprised at how great it tasted and how easy it was to do.. thank you for the recipe!
Camilla
Yay, so glad you were inspired to bake and that you had success with my Banana Pudding:-) I hope you come back and try some more recipes!
Liz
Super quick and easy. Quiet sweet, but I think my bananas were very ripe. Lovely hot with Greek yoghurt. Thanks!
Camilla
Fab, so glad you enjoyed it, my family love it too:-)