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Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- Pinch salt
- 2 (12-ounce) cans evaporated milk
- 4 egg yolks
- 1/2 stick butter, cubed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 box vanilla wafers, plus more for garnish, crumbled
- 5 bananas, sliced
- Whipped cream
Directions
In a 3-quart heavy saucepan on low heat, add sugar, flour and salt. Pour in the evaporated milk and stir constantly. The mixture will thicken slowly, about 15 minutes.
Lightly beat the egg yolks in a medium size bowl. Add a ladleful of the thickened milk mixture to the eggs and whisk, to temper the eggs. Add the egg mixture into the saucepan and continue to whisk and cook until incorporated, roughly 2 to 3 minutes.
Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in the butter and the vanilla extract. Place the pudding into a bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let cool in refrigerator for 2 1/2 hours.
Into a large bowl or trifle dish, add a layer of vanilla wafers, a layer of sliced bananas, and top with pudding. Add the whipped cream and then repeat the layers. Garnish with crumbled cookies on top.
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By smameeks
on February 01, 2012
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Very good, yes little sweet but it was good, I wouldn't change anything about it.
By gatoothfairy200...
Mansfield, TX
on January 30, 2012
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Lesson learned---always read the reviews before you try the recipe. It turned out just as the others said----soupy and wayyyy to sweet.
By angeltara
Auburn Hills, MI
on January 22, 2012
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I picked this recipe because other reviewers said it was sweet - and I like sweet. However, it turned out to be syrupy sweet! I asked my 14 year old son to taste the pudding and he said it tasted like cake frosting! So I doubled the milk (at this point, I switched to regular, whole milk, salt and cornstarch (yes, I used cornstarch because flour seemed weird to me. This helped the flavor. The other issue was the thickening factor. As I mentioned, I used cornstarch which has double to thickening power as flour and for whatever reason, when I pulled it out of the fridge after cooling, it had gone from moderately thick back to thin. What a disappointment. I'm giving it 3 stars because I think the flavor is there, once you cut the sweetness....
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