My Go-To Dessert
August 17, 2009 · Posted in cooking and food, dessert, erin, recipes by erin
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Being a newlywed means that you’re going to be invited to lots of dinners at your friends’ homes and you’ll most likely be asked to bring a bottle of wine or some dessert. I always choose to bring dessert. Dessert is especially fun to make because you know that it’s going to be someone’s favorite part of the meal and because your husband gets to lick the beaters and the bowl.
If I’m making dessert for a good sized crowd I always choose to make Paula Deen’s Not Yo Mama’s Banana Pudding. It’s a great no bake dessert that is sure to be a crowd pleaser—unless those that are eating it don’t like bananas. (I made the grave mistake of bringing banana pudding to a friend’s house when she hates bananas—oops.) I like to make this recipe over and over again because I know it by heart now and it only takes about 20 minutes to prepare.
I know that Paula Deen is notorious for her love of buttah, sugah, and fried stuff, but there are ways to make this recipe figure friendly.
Ingredients:
- 2 bags Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies
- 6 to 8 bananas, sliced
- 2 cups milk
- 1 (5-ounce) box instant French vanilla pudding
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (12-ounce) container frozen whipped topping thawed, or equal amount sweetened whipped cream
Directions:
Line the bottom of a 13 by 9 by 2-inch dish with 1 bag of cookies and layer bananas on top.
In a bowl, combine the milk and pudding mix and blend well using a handheld electric mixer. Using another bowl, combine the cream cheese and condensed milk together and mix until smooth. Fold the whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture. Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture and stir until well blended. Pour the mixture over the cookies and bananas and cover with the remaining cookies. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
photo and recipe found here
This recipe is just as delicious if you use fat free everything. The only ingredient that cannot be substituted is the Pepperidge Farm Chessman Cookies.
For a really beautiful presentation, use a trifle dish instead of a 9×13 dish.
What is your go-to dessert? Care to share the recipe?
This is actually my go to dessert too! Everyone I serve it to loves it and asks for the recipe!! YUM!
This sounds great! I might have to try this for one of my weekly dinners with our neighbors! :)
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This recipe looks so good, I will have to try it. My go to dessert is homeade apple pie. In college I was roomates with one of my cousins and we were really poor. Our grandparents have an apple orchard and would bring us barrels of apples. It took us a year but we mastered homeade apple pie. Once you master pie crust it is truly one of the easiest desserts to make and husbands LOVE it!
Oh my gosh!!! Why haven’t I heard about this (or gone to her website and looked it up myself!) earlier????
I LOVE LOVE LOVE banana pudding AND Paula Deen. Put the two together, and it’s got to be heaven!
I will try this and let you know - it might end up as my go-to dessert.
Making it for the first time. Had it at a party, prepared in a trifle and was delicious and beautifully presented. Had the fat-free version and wouldn’t have known otherwise…was delicious!! Can’t wait to see how it works out!
