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 salvaging lots of overripe 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 Banana Pudding is 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!
More Banana Recipes
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.
Saima
Shouldn’t this recipe have some kind of raising agent?
Camilla
Hi Saima, no it shouldn’t. I have tried it with self raising flour and makes no difference. This is a moist, dense pudding not like a cake.
laura
I LOVE this! No. It is nothing like American banana pudding….Even better, IMHO. Super easy and delicious. This is something that I will crave. I already have some banana’s that are getting overripe….
Thanks for sharing.
I do have a question. How long do you think it lasts in the refrigerator?
Camilla
Thank you so much Laura:-) If you mean how long would the leftovers last in the fridge then I would use up by the next day.
Leela
We had lots of overripe bananas and usually throw them but having seen this recipe decided to give it a go this morning as a Sunday morning brunch treat. Such an easy recipe to do and the result was amazing, luscious and delicious almost like a soft banana bread, my husband is very happy with his breakfast treat! Our little toddler also enjoyed some. Only change I made was to reduce the caster sugar amount from 115g to 100g as the bananas were so ripe I didn’t want the pudding to be oversweet and the result was great, I’d probably reduce the sugar to 85g when I make it next time for the perfect balance for us.
Camilla
Fab Leela, so glad you and your family liked it and adapted it to your taste:-)
Cat D
We made this tonight and it was a huge hit with the whole family! Pure comfort food and a great way to use up over ripe bananas – the riper the better! I had to cook ours for 55 minutes as I used a Pyrex dish but other than that I changed nothing and it was AMAZING! Thank you! 🙂
Camilla
Yay, so glad you all like it, it’s a massive favourite with my family too:-)
Chloe Edges
This looks so good and a great way to use up bananas. I ordered “banana pudding’ in the US once and got a bowl of poor man’s angel delight full of soggy biscuits (the UK kind) and artificial flavourings. I’ve never been so disappointed! I’d have been delighted and much less surprised to have been served this