 Alright, when you make banana pudding, start out doing your pudding first. I like to use the microwave You can make it on the stuff top if you like, but it's quicker in the microwave And it's just as good and it never scorches. So we're gonna start out with a third cup of Self-rising flour and you can use plain flour as well. It don't have to be self-rising just use some flour So you got a third cup of flour. You're gonna use a dash of salt And a half cup of Sugar. The first things I do is I whisk all that together Good and then we're gonna separate some eggs. Egg whites for your meringue It's for your meringue and your egg yellows are gonna go in your pudding. Alright, we're gonna separate our eggs make sure that your Bowl is really dry the one that you're gonna use for your whites so that your meringue turns out good You can't get any yellow in it So we're going to separate for it's best to separate them when they're cold and set a room temperature Because when they're room temperature the yellow wants to separate a lot easier on you and you can't get any yellow in the meringue And I like to use four just because it makes enough meringue to make it pretty If you don't want to make them a ring you can use the whole egg and just use a couple of large whole eggs Now we're going to be using two and a quarter cups of milk in our pudding So we're gonna start out with two cups because this is a two-cup measuring Cut and you want to use a liquid measuring cup for liquids and Drive for dry. There's differences. So we're gonna do a quarter cup in this So there you got two and one quarter cups of milk Now we're gonna put in our four egg yellows I'm gonna go ahead and beat them a little bit Throw them in there now make sure you mix it really really good and get all the flour stuff off the bottom of your batter bowl You want to use a batter bowl or a microwavable bowl my vanilla and my butter in at the end So now we're going to take this pudding and we're going to cook it at three minute intervals in the microwave And while we're doing that we're going to make our meringue So we're going to get this in the microwave Three minutes get in between because that flour can settle to the bottom of that bowl So you're going to want to make sure and get it incorporated good. So you won't have lumpy pudding Yeah, I'm gonna put my whites over here with my cream of tartar so I usually wait until the first three minutes is up on my Pudding you don't want to make the meringue too far in advance because if you do then it's not going to spread and look Real pretty on the top. It kind of starts changing its texture. All right our first three minutes is up Do not skip this step Because you do want to make sure all the flour Is incorporated into the pudding doesn't settle Make sure you beat it really good and get all around the bottom Then put it back in the microwave For three more minutes and this time We're gonna start our meringue All right, so we're gonna step over here to the mixer And I've got my beater in So you're gonna want to make meringue with a beater or a hand mixer either one and we're gonna put in our four egg whites We're gonna turn it up And wait for them to get a little bit frothy until we we're not gonna put it all the way up until they get a little Frothy then we're gonna start adding some sugar. I'm going to turn them up Let's start adding sugar sugar And now we're gonna put in some cream of carbo. So there's our pudding. It's nice and creamy. I'm not gonna cook any more You want it to be a little bit runny or your pudding will taste dry a Quarter stick of butter, which is two tablespoons. Let that melt in there And we're gonna add a couple of tablespoons of vanilla Add a couple of teaspoons of vanilla and we're gonna whisk this together whisk it until that butter is in there and Mixed in there good. All right by the time you get finished with that. This is gonna be ready. It's ready We're gonna take it off here so that we can put it on top of our pudding in just a minute I'm gonna get together before meringue Changes its texture So the first thing I do is I put in about half the pudding and I put in Most of the vanilla wafers and you don't have to use the whole bag since I usually double this recipe So I'm gonna use enough to cover it good Like that and now we're gonna slice our bananas and I like to slice them really thin They need to be good and right but not rotten and I'll show y'all a trick she used to make me Deseed her bananas and if you're gonna serve this the next day They definitely need to be de-seeded now if you want to de-seed them you can slice the banana down the middle like that and take a small spoon and go down the center of The bananas and Get the pits out or the seeds my grandmother wouldn't eat a banana pudding unless I did this She just didn't like from the look brown and they do turn brown really easy now That's a lot of trouble. You can see how much trouble it is But if you're trying to impress somebody or take it somewhere that you want to serve it the following day You should de-seed them. Okay? But we're not de-seeding these me and Chris are going to eat it today. I just want to show y'all how to do that In case somebody don't like the dark color bananas And it's a turn off for banana pudding for them There is a remedy if that's the case I Like to slice my bananas really thin not big thick chunks and I just put enough on here to cover my night Nella way first And it's according how big my pudding is as to how many bananas I use I Think I've got four bananas listed on there But four is a lot. So I'm gonna use three. I usually use three if they're pretty good medium-sized bananas This recipe is In my first cookbook Because it's something we eat all the time love banana pudding Who don't right and so many people just eat the instant pudding now and it's I mean, it'll do but when you can make at home made and use the microwave Why not do it? It's so simple and easy that way. You don't have to worry about burning it or scorching it And it's delish Nobody's ever complained About my banana pudding. All right We'll save a few of these for the top And we're gonna put the rest of the pudding in we're gonna put on the meringue Let me grab grab this and put this up real quick don't just brown your meringue with a torch or Stick it in there on board make sure it cooks it here we go This is what makes it pretty And of course if you're not putting my ring on it, you don't have to put it in the oven You could just use cool whip With topping whatever you want to do But Chris loves banana pudding with meringue. He won't eat one. I don't put meringue on it I've tried to do that before and he was so disappointed Weren't you crazy? Yeah, so four eggs make a nice big tall meringue. I just make it pretty pretty much harder Just makes it more Pretty to play in and make the top pretty It just makes it a prettier Mama always did that to every one of hers. I That's what mama did. Did your mama do that Chris? Oh, she didn't she didn't make my ring. I'll do it like mama did and make big peaks That's what mama always did What you got a hole right there. Oh a hole This is I the style my mom's name was either I miss her All right Okay, I take my Remaining Nilla wafers and I decorate the top a little bit with them And I've never made a banana pudding that I didn't eat one of them either The great thing about making the just a single recipe like this is you have enough vanilla wafers to go in the pudding And around the edge of the pudding and make it pretty In just one box of vanilla wafers that one's not as pretty. I'm gonna eat it Okay, and then I usually take the crumb That are in the bottom of the bag and just the tiny ones. I don't like the big ones So much and I sprinkle it on the top of the pudding and not too much just enough to make it pretty And that's it y'all. We're gonna get it in the oven and we're gonna bake it 350 degrees for 20 minutes And eat the pudding looks awesome. Hey like my mama curls. Yeah turn my oven Down to 325 Because of the peaks Because normally I don't make those and they're so tall that they'll get too brown and not be as pretty If you're not careful. So if you want to do these types of peaks You really need to bake it at 325 instead of 350 dig into it We like it hot here at the nickels house Don't we baby and we like the big spoon my mama Would get so upset if she ever went anywhere To a function and somebody got out a spoon Like that to serve with Should be like put a servant spoon in there So it's just not big enough for my mama This one's a little too big But not for me and Chris Right Chris We're gonna get you out a pretty dip see if I can get this one out with the Curves on it you don't get the rest of it out bottom On the plate. It was good to me. Let's get on the plate. Let's get it back Y'all if y'all don't make anything They call her belly cooks is giving you a recipe for And you don't trust me on some of my stuff you gotta trust me on this one banana pudding in the microwave is amazing every time bananas Nilla wafers Pretty meringue That won't impress a man Nothing will I don't know why men love an input. Oh my gosh. It's like heaven on earth You want to eat some credit For the camera You don't Thanks for watching Call her belly cooks for a cook like mama did by y'all love you