>> Hilah: Hey dudes!
I am Hilah, and welcome to Hilah Cooking.
Today I am gonna show you one of my favorite desserts as a kid and also just a really great,
nice, cool thing to have for a summer barbeque, hang on.
Yep, hello, yeah I am doing it right now.
I am doing it right now.
I’ll call you back.
Sorry, it’s banana pudding.
[MUSIC]
[Homemade Banana Pudding Recipe]
>> Hilah: First we’ve got to make some puddin’.
Now, of course, you could just use a box and make some pudding, but this would be a pretty
lame cooking show if that’s what I told you to do, so I’ve got my milk here, cold
milk, start with cold milk, and then I am gonna add the cornstarch and sugar and stir
that to get it dissolved.
In the meantime you’re doing anything with cornstarch you wanna make sure you get it
dissolved in the cold liquid first because if you try to add it to hot liquid it will
just lump up on you and your pudding will just be terrible and disgusting, awful.
That’s dissolved, and I’ve got two egg yolks, and I will get those mixed up.
Oops, I sloshed, and then just a couple of tablespoons of butter, and then we’re going
to put some heat under it.
Okay.
Just over medium heat.
We’re just gonna stir this until it begins to simmer and that’s probably going to take
about five minutes I would guess.
I don’t remember.
I think it takes about five minutes, we’ll see.
All right.
Now, as soon as you start to see the first bubbles pop up there, you’re going to notice
like an immediate change in texture and I hope you can see this.
It’s gotten remarkably thicker all-of-a-sudden.
Hey yo!
I am going to turn the heat down to low now and cook it for another two minutes and just
keep stirring it the whole time, and it’s just gonna make sure that the cornstarch get
fully cooked, so I’ll see you back in two minutes.
Okay, now after two minutes I hope you can see this like when you drag your whisk through
it, it leaves a little trail, and it, it’s a lot thicker than it was two minutes ago.
I swear.
I am going to turn the heat off, and add the vanilla.
There, the pudding part is done.
We’ll just leave this to cool a little bit, and then we’ll assemble our banana pudding,
so for the construction, I’ve got just a little dish here, and I put a layer of vanilla
wafers in the bottom.
I’m using store bought vanilla wafers, but I have done it before with homemade ones and
I have a recipe for that on my website if you want to check that out.
I just didn't have time to do that today.
So, and then, just a little layer of banana, and, you know, you can layer this however
you want to, but just make sure that your bananas are inside the pudding, not on the
top layer because then they’ll turn brown and that’s not appealing, and then I’m
just gonna pour in about half the pudding over the top, and then, let’s do another
layer of banana.
I think when you layer it with warm pudding like this it actually kind of brings the banana
flavor out more than if you were to chill the pudding first and then put it together,
and another layer of pudding, and now some people put another layer of cracker, or cookies
on the inside.
You could do that, and then you would want to maybe like put a piece of plastic wrap
right over the top of the pudding, so it doesn't make that pudding skin, but I don’t really
care about no pudding skin.
It doesn't bother me, but also I like to have little cookies on top because look how cute,
and that kind of keeps the little, keeps the pudding skin from happening.
. . bloop!
Okay.
Now, we’re just going to cover it and put in the fridge for about four hours or even
overnight if you want to for the pudding to cool off and it all kind of like gels together
and makes kind of like a delicious banana cream pie but without the pie part, so I am
going to do that, and I give you banana pudding.
Okay.
I am going to try it now.
Let’s see.
I guess I’m just gonna have to eat this whole cookie right there.
Oh dudes!
Oh my God.
That bite’s crazy big.
[laughs] Ummm, oh man!
Dudes!
Nothing says I am just a dumb little kid like, taking a big bite of banana pudding.
It totally just makes your heart go all soft and creamy.
All right.
Well, there’s how to bake traditional banana pudding.
If you want to put whipped cream on top, you can do that although we never had that when
I was a kid, probably because we were poor.
Wha, wha, but there you go!
If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below.
I hope you make this for your summertime potlucks and stuff like that.
It’s so nice and cool, light, and there you go.
Have a ball.
Thanks for watching so much, and I’ll talk to you guys later.