Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding

This Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding recipe is the same recipe used in the Magnolia Bakery in New York City! It’s layered with Nilla Wafers, sliced bananas, and vanilla pudding.

If you love this banana pudding recipe, then you will go crazy for my Crumbl Banana Cream Pie Cookies! They have the same delicious banana cream pudding topping!

Last year my husband and I traveled to NYC. It was a short trip to celebrate his graduating from medical school.

We ate a lot of delicious food while there; but two places that I’ll never forget would be Jacob’s Pickles (an incredible and delicious brunch and dinner restaurant), and Magnolia Bakery’s banana pudding.

For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of eating the famous Magnolia banana pudding while listening to the busy NYC traffic zoom by, don’t fret! You can make it from your own home.

And you SHOULD! It’s so good.

Ingredients

I love that this recipe uses simple ingredients. And the process to make the pudding is so easy. We’ll go over how to make it in just a moment.

• 1 (14 oz) can of sweetened condensed milk
• cold water
• Instant vanilla pudding mix
• heavy whipping cream
• 1 box of Nilla Wafers
• 5 bananas (or more if you’re a banana lover)

How to make Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding

Make the vanilla pudding

This recipe is really easy and straight forward.

To begin, add the cold water and sweetened condensed milk to the bowl of a stand mixer (fitted with the whisk attachment). Mix until combined.

Next, add the instant vanilla pudding mix to the water and condensed milk mixture.

Mix on medium speed for 2 minutes.

Now you’re going to transfer this mixture to a different bowl and cover. Place it in the fridge for 3-4 hours, or overnight.

Once chilled, it will be firm, as illustrated in the photo above.

Make the freshly whipped cream

Tip #1: Use cold heavy cream.

Tip #2: If it’s a hot day, you can chill the metal bowl and whisk to keep the heavy cream cold.

To start, add the heavy cream to the bowl of your stand mixer (fitted with the whisk attachment). Turn the mixer to medium speed. The heavy cream will bubble and get frothy.

Once the cream thickens slightly, turn the speed to medium-high and mix until still billowy peaks.

Combine the pudding and whipped cream

Scoop half of the firm pudding mixture to the freshly whipped cream.

Fold the pudding into the cream.

Once combined, add the remaining pudding and fold again, being careful to not completely deflate the whipped cream.

Now we layer!

Assembling the Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding

You can use whatever size of containers you’d like. You can divide everything into 12 smaller sized jars, or 1 large trifle dish.

To the bottom of the jars (or whatever dish you choose) add a layer of Nilla Wafers.

Next top with a layer of sliced bananas and then add a layer of vanilla pudding.

Do another layer!

And depending on the size of dish you chose, you can do a third layer.

Refrigerate the pudding for 1-6 hours. The Nilla Wafers will slightly break down and become cake-like. It’s glorious!

Recipe Tips

Use Nilla Wafer brand. There are certain times in life you should buy “name brand,” this is one of those times. The Nilla Wafer brand tastes better and they’ll softened beautifully. Some off-brands don’t behave this way and will stay firm in the pudding. You don’t want that, trust me.

FAQs

If you love this recipe try:

• Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
• Banoffee Pie Recipe