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
How many calories are there in a portion of Banana Pudding?
This is an approximation of the calories and nutrients in this pudding!
I’m sure you’ll love my Banana Pudding so please leave a comment and rating below. Plus you can share your pudding with me by tagging @FabFood4All on social media as I love seeing your photos!
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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.
Frida
Sorry I meant Camilla, not Jessica in my previous post…
Camilla
No worries:-)
Frida
Hi Jessica, could I use self raising flour instead ? I don’t have any plain flour
Camilla
Hi Frida, yes self raising is fine, I’ve used it before and it makes no difference:-)
Ethel
A great recipe to do with the kids!! The smell of this cooking has the whole family in the kitchen. My only question was in preheating the oven. Is it 180 degrees fan or just normal oven? I’ve gone for 180 fan but I’m watching it carefully so it’s not too dark.
Camilla
Hi, all my temperatures are for a normal oven, glad you like the recipe. I’m making this myself tonight as have a bunch of over-ripe bananas:-)
Sam day
Do u need to use vanilla essence?
Camilla
No, you can leave it out if you don’t have any.
Barbara
I added some walnuts for a little crunch it was delicious
Camilla
Excellent, walnuts marry so well with banana. We put them in my Banana, Honey & Walnut Shake:-)
Rachel Johnson
I only had 4 bananas so I did slightly less sugar (I did a quarter of a cup plus an eighth of a cup) I didn’t want the reduced moisture from the bananas to mess it up so I thought dialing down the sugar might help. It was perfect! We had it with a big heap of vanilla ice cream on top 🙂
Camilla
Awesome Rachel, so glad you like this pudding, we’ve had it more times than I can remember:-)
Roni Patel
Lovely way to use up bananas but I found it way too sweet. I will definitely make it again but without sugar. Ripe bananas are sweet enough.
Camilla
As Nigel Slater says, a recipe is just a starting place:-)
Camilla
Hi Dawn, thank you for your feedback and taking the time out of your day to do so. Wishing you a very Happy Easter:-)
Jessica Burton
Is there a substitute for butter? Can I use vegan butter or coconut oil?
Camilla
Hi Jessica, yes you could use a plant based spread instead of butter. I haven’t tried it with coconut oil so not sure if the flavour would enhance the pudding of be too intrusive?