Deep Dish Banana Pudding - Don's Favorite
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Recipe type: Dessert
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Serves: 16 - ½ cup servings
 
Ingredients
  • 40 Nilla Wafers (plus additional wafers for garnishing individual servings)
  • ½ cup chopped pecans
  • ⅓ cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 4 Tbsp butter, melted
  • 2 pkgs (3.4 oz each) Vanilla Flavored Instant Pudding
  • 2 cups cold milk
  • 1 8 oz container Cool Whip (thawed)
  • 3 large bananas
  • 1 8 oz package Cream Cheese (softened)
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Crush the vanilla wafers by putting them in a plastic ziplock bag and using a rolling pin. Do Not pulverize them, just crush them.
  3. Mix the crushed wafers and the next four ingredients (pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon and butter) in a bowl and then spread them out on a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Stir about half way through.
  4. While the crumb mixture is cooling, beat the pudding mixes and cold milk (only 2 cups) in a medium bowl with a whisk for about two minutes. Get your muscles out because the pudding mixture will be thick. Stir in one cup of the Cool Whip.
  5. Once the crumb mixture is cool, layer ⅓ of the crumb mixture and half of the bananas and pudding in a deep dish (2 qt bowl will work). Repeat the layers.
  6. With your mixer, beat the cream cheese and granulated sugar in a medium bowl until well blended. Gently stir in one cup of Cool Whip.
  7. Spread the cream cheese and sugar mixture over the top of this dreamy dish and sprinkle the remain crumb mixture on top.
  8. Refrigerate for 3 hours.
  9. Serve in individual dishes with a whole wafer or two and a spoonful of Cool Whip.
Recipe by Let's Go Junking! at http://www.letsgojunking.com/deep-dish-banana-pudding-dons-favorite/