Which do you prefer?

Cold


Baked




Honestly, I've never had it baked so I can't compare. Never heard of baked until about 3 years ago. I've been intending to make my own vanilla wafers since the store bought ones aren't made with real vanilla flavoring anymore and taste funny. My supervisor makes her own vanilla extract and she gave us a bottle one year, I've stored enough away just so I can do the wafers with it. I think it'll be this year.

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COLD

I don't like the bananas mushier

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Cold is my favorite. But you can't go wrong either way!

You don't put merange on it!! eww. Warm wit real ban bans. Luv4u and me will eat it under da moon.

Cold. From Magnolia Bakery.

StrangeButTrue said:

Cold. From Magnolia Bakery.

shit, yeah...i've been trying to remember the name of that place since this thread started...i had that when i was in california, driving back to LA from malibu. SO GOOD!

I have a MB near where I work in New York and its a daily exercise in willpower to not go and consume all of their amazing sugar treats but the banana pudding there is heavenly. Otherworldly. They deliver! https://magnoliabakery.go...na-pudding

Cold with Nilla wafers!

I like both

lool said:

If by cold you mean made with instant pudding mix...no. My family is from the south. If I bought some instant pudding to a family function I'd get some dirty looks. I follow the recipe on the Nilla Wafer box but I make double the vanilla pudding base. Putting the meringue doesn't necessary mean you have to cook the bananas. The pudding is fully cooked on the stove then you do the banana and cookie layering. The meringue only really requires a few minutes under the broiler the get brown. If cooked bananas is unappetizing to you, simply chill your pudding before meringuing it.

I almost don't know, I know of the kind that's the recipe on the Vanilla Wafers box, but it's been so many decades since I've ever made it, but I think their recipe you cook the pudding yourself, then use it after it's been chilled but I've had it with the instant pudding mix. The last banana pudding I had was from an itty bitty hole-in-wall resturant that was close to me, and it was absolutely delicious and it was cold, but the owner moved away so that was that for me.

both...

lool said:

If by cold you mean made with instant pudding mix...no. My family is from the south. If I bought some instant pudding to a family function I'd get some dirty looks. I follow the recipe on the Nilla Wafer box but I make double the vanilla pudding base. Putting the meringue doesn't necessary mean you have to cook the bananas. The pudding is fully cooked on the stove then you do the banana and cookie layering. The meringue only really requires a few minutes under the broiler the get brown. If cooked bananas is unappetizing to you, simply chill your pudding before meringuing it.

thanks for the chill tip!


Both. Chilled in the summertime, whipped cream of course. Meringue mo special.

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