Banana Pudding Cups that will leave you craving for more. Layers of creamy vanilla custard, ripe bananas, cookies, and caramel sauce all topped with whipped cream. Combining the comforting flavors of bananas and caramel in a way that will make your mouth water.
Banana Pudding Recipe
Banana Pudding Recipe with caramel sauce is a dessert that has become a staple in many households. This delightful treat, with its layers of sweet vanilla-banana flavored custard, and caramelized bananas and garnished with whipped cream and chocolate shaving.
Banana Pudding is very popular and is more than just a dessert, brings irresistible comfort food and joy to many. It is so easy to make it from scratch at home and you can enjoy it at a family gathering. This banana treat is nutritious as well as delicious! Everyone loves these Banana Pudding Cups.
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⭐Why You'll Love This Banana Pudding Cups
- Customizable: This recipe is easy to tweak—try different toppings, swap out the biscuits or cookies, or mix in other fruits for a fun twist.
- Make-Ahead Friendly: You can make these ahead of time and keep them in the fridge until you're ready to serve. The flavors blend nicely as they chill, making them even tastier.
- Visually Appealing: Layered in clear glasses, these Banana Pudding Cups are as beautiful as they are delicious—a perfect dessert for impressing guests.
- Easy to Serve: These individual cups are perfect for gatherings. Everyone gets their own, making them great for parties, picnics, or family dinners.
🧾Banana Pudding Ingredients
Here’s what you need to make this Banana Pudding Recipe:
- Unsalted Butter: I prefer using unsalted butter to sauté the bananas, which brings out their flavor and creates a silky base for the pudding. It adds a rich, smooth feel to the mixture.
- Banana: Ripe bananas are key—they add natural sweetness, a creamy texture, and that signature banana flavor that makes the pudding special.
- Egg Yolks: Room-temperature egg yolks give the pudding a rich, custard-like consistency and help thicken it, adding depth and flavor.
- Cornstarch: Cornstarch is my go-to for thickening the pudding, ensuring it turns out smooth and creamy without being too runny.
- Sugar: I use granulated sugar for sweetness and to make the caramel. It balances the flavors and enhances the caramelization. You can swap it with raw or brown sugar if you like.
- Milk: Milk serves as the base, giving the pudding its creamy texture and custard-like consistency.
- Salt: A pinch of salt balances the sweetness and enhances the flavors, especially the bananas and caramel.
- Vanilla Extract: A touch of vanilla adds warmth and depth, making the pudding taste even more flavorful.
- Water: I use water to dissolve the sugar for the caramel, helping create the perfect consistency before adding cream.
- Double Cream: Double cream makes the caramel sauce and whipped topping rich and luxurious, adding smoothness and enhancing the overall texture.
- Biscuits: Biscuits add a crunchy contrast to the creamy pudding, absorbing some moisture to become soft but not soggy, adding texture and flavor.
- Dark Chocolate: Dark chocolate shavings add a rich, slightly bitter contrast to the sweetness and serve as a beautiful garnish.
See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
👩🏻🍳How to Make Banana Pudding Cups
These step-by-step instructions and photos will help you to visualize how to make this recipe. See the recipe card for a printable version of this recipe.
How to Make Banana Pudding:
1. Melt butter in a saucepan and add banana pieces, cook for 1 minute until soft. Add sugar, milk, and salt, then heat gently without boiling.
2. Separate three egg yolks, whisk them, add cornstarch, and whisk until smooth.
3. Blend the banana mixture with a bender, pour it into the egg yolk mixture, add vanilla, and mix well.
4. Pour the mixture into the saucepan and cook on low-medium heat, whisking every minute until it bubbles about 8 minutes. Keep cooking and whisking until the pudding thickens.
5. Transfer the pudding to a large bowl. Let it cool to lukewarm, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until chilled.
6. Heat sugar and water in a saucepan over low to medium heat until dissolved and bubbling then add the heavy cream and stir until combined.
7. Transfer the caramel sauce to a bowl.
8. Cut the bananas into pieces, add them to the caramel sauce, and mix well.
How to Assemble Banana Pudding:
Layer the pudding mixture, banana slices, caramel sauce, and biscuit pieces in the glasses. Add another layer of pudding, bananas, and caramel sauce, then top with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.
📖Variations
- Add Spices: For a flavor boost, try adding spices like cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, or clove.
- Different Fruits: You can switch up the bananas with fruits like mango, peach, nectarine, apricot, or plum for a new twist.
- Add Cocoa Powder: Mix in 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder to the custard for a chocolatey touch.
- Add Nutella: Stir in 50 grams of Nutella for a delicious chocolate hazelnut flavor.
💭Tips for Recipe Success
Cook the Caramel Just Right: Aim for a perfect golden brown color, too light, and it lacks flavor; too dark, and it’ll taste burnt.
Use Ripe Bananas: Let your bananas fully ripen before peeling and slicing for the best flavor.
Cover Banana Slices with Lemon Juice: A little lemon juice helps keep them from turning brown.
Keep Whisking: Don’t stop stirring, especially around the edges, to prevent the pudding from burning.
Keep Your Pudding Smooth: Cool the hot pudding in a bowl over cold water, stirring to prevent lumps. If needed, stir it vigorously after cooling to smooth it out.
Fix Lumpy Pudding: Push the custard through a mesh sieve with a spatula to remove any lumps, leaving the pudding silky smooth.
Storage: Store Banana Pudding Cups in the fridge to keep them fresh.
❓Commonly Asked Questions
Of course! You can make this Banana Pudding a few days in advance. Cool down the pudding in the mold and refrigerate until the day before serving it. Then remove it from the fridge and serve it.
🍮More Pudding Recipes!
If you love these Banana Pudding Cups, you'll also adore these tasty puddings:
- Orange Custard Pudding
- Castella Cake Creme Caramel Pudding
- Caramel Pudding
- Caramel Pudding Cake
- Sticky Toffee Pudding
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📖 Recipe
Banana Pudding Cups
Ingredients
- 50 g Unsalted Butter
- 1 Banana
- 3 Egg Yolks
- 30 g Cornstarch
- 90 g Sugar
- 500 ml Milk
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 200 g Sugar
- 120 ml Water
- 120 ml Double Cream
- 3 Bananas
- 180 ml Double Cream
- 4 Biscuits
- 5 g Dark Chocolate
Instructions
How to Make the Pudding
- Add butter to a saucepan.
- Cut a banana into pieces, add to a saucepan, and cook for 1 minute until soft. Then add sugar, milk, and salt. Gently heat the mixture but do not boil.
- Separate three egg yolks from the whites, whisk the egg yolks, add cornstarch, and whisk well to combine.
- Blend the banana mixture with blender and then pour over the egg yolk mixture, add vanilla extract, and mix well to combine.
- Pour the mixture back into the saucepan and cook over low-medium heat, whisking every minute until the mixture is bubbling for around 8 minutes. Continue cooking and whisking continuously until the pudding is thickened.
- Transfer the mixture pudding to a large bowl. Let it cool down until it is lukewarm, then cover it with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for several hours or until chilled.
- Add sugar and water into a saucepan, and cook over low-medium heat until it's completely melted and bubbled.
- Pour in the heavy cream, whisk, and stir until everything is combined.
- Pour the caramel sauce into a bowl.
- Cut the bananas into pieces, add over the caramel sauce, and mix well to combine.
- Remove the pudding from refrigerator and remove the plastic wrap, whisk the pudding until creamy texture.
- In a large bowl, beat the double cream for 4 minutes until slightly thickened.
How to Assemble the Dessert
- Add the pudding mixture, banana slices caramel sauce, biscuit pieces into the glasses, add another layer of pudding mixture, banana slices with caramel sauce, and top it with whipped cream. Garnish with shavings chocolate.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered an estimate only. Actual nutritional content will vary based upon brands used, measuring methods, cooking method, portion sizes, and more.
Sandra says
So delicious, I will make it!