Cracker Barrel Banana Pudding

The Cracker Barrel Banana Pudding reminds you of home, creamy homemade vanilla pudding, with fresh bananas, crunchy vanilla wafers.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Banana Pudding, Cracker Barrel copycat recipe, Cracker Barrel Recipes

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 30

In a heavy saucepan combine sugar, flour, and milk.
Cook and stir continually over medium heat until the mixture is thickened and bubbly.
Cook and stir for an additional two minutes. Remove from heat.
Place the egg yolks in a small bowl and beat them well, until pale and lighter in color.
Drizzle 1 cup of the hot pudding mixture slowly into the beaten eggs, whisking constantly while adding the pudding.
Slowly add the egg yolk mixture into the pan with the remainder of the pudding, stirring constantly.
Cook the mixture until it just begins to bubble, stirring constantly.
Add butter, cream cheese and vanilla. Stir until all of the ingredients are well incorporated.
Pour the pudding into a bowl and place plastic wrap on the surface of the pudding.
Refrigerate the pudding until it is cool.

Place 1 cup of heavy whipping cream into a bowl with 1 teaspoon of sugar.
Using either a whisk or a mixer, beat the whipping cream until stiff peaks form. Refrigerate if not using immediately.

Break vanilla wafers into 6 mason jars.
Cut bananas into slices and place 4 or 5 slices of bananas into each jar.
Add a couple of tablespoons of pudding on top of the bananas.
Repeat 2 more times with adding vanilla wafers, bananas, and pudding to each jar.
Top with whipped cream.
Garnish with banana slices, vanilla wafer, and/or vanilla wafer crumbs if desired.

The plastic wrap is placed over the cooling pudding to keep a skin from forming on top of the pudding.
Allow pudding to cool to room temperature before preparing individual puddings.
You could swap the vanilla wafers with shortbread cookies like Lorna Dunes.

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