A banana pudding recipe made with Nutter Butter cookies, bananas, vanilla pudding and layers of peanut butter ripples for the perfect no-bake icebox dessert!
JUMP TO RECIPEI went to college long enough ago that we students actually ate in the cafeteria.
We didn't have credit cards for luxuries like McDonald’s and Lean Cuisines.
We ate in the cafeteria because it was that, go hungry or spend what little bit of cash we had on food. And my budget was too tight for that!
Like most school cafeterias in the early nineties, the food was pretty bad. We didn't have Chick-Fil-A or Subway counters. We just doused everything in ranch dressing and looked forward to getting home-cooked meals over the holidays.
Peanut butter was something else we used to make stuff taste better. We’d slather it on frozen waffles and muffins and anything else that had no flavor. The cafeteria is where I learned how amazing melted peanut butter is.
You can stick it in the microwave for a few seconds and instantly have a sweet and salty peanut butter sauce that is amazing on ice cream, cake, pudding, etc.
I still melt peanut butter to drizzle over ice cream now. It just adds a little something extra and makes your kids think you’re a rock star.
I made Paula Dean's Banana Pudding last weekend and had some leftovers in the fridge. One night I helped myself to some and decided to drizzle melted peanut butter over it because who don’t love peanut butter and bananas?!
And it was amazing!
I’d been thinking about it all week and decided it was just too good not to create some sort of dessert with that combination!
I decided to make sort of a peanut butter banana pudding using Nutter Butter Cookies instead of vanilla wafers. And then I put layers of melted peanut butter in there that made two positively divine peanut butter ripples.
Lord, have mercy! The kids declared this the best dessert EVER.
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Recipe for Nutter Butter Banana Pudding with Peanut Butter Ripples
Nutter Butter Banana Pudding with Peanut Butter Ripple
A banana pudding recipe made with Nutter Butter cookies, bananas, vanilla pudding and layers of peanut butter ripples!
Ingredients
- 1 1-lb. package Nutter Butter Cookies
- 1 large box instant vanilla pudding (see notes)
- 2 1/3 cups milk
- 2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 4-5 bananas, sliced
- 1 8-oz. tub cool whip, thawed
Instructions
- Arrange half of the cookies in a single layer in the bottom of a square 2-quart dish.
- Heat peanut butter in a microwave-safe bowl for about 45 seconds or until melted and pourable, stirring well after heating; set aside. 2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- Add pudding mix and milk to a bowl or stand mixer then beat two minutes. Pour half of the pudding on top of the cookies. Pudding mix, 2 1/3 c. milk
- Arrange a single layer of banana slices over the pudding.
- Drizzle half of the peanut butter over bananas.
- Spread half of the cool whip over peanut butter.
- Repeat these layers once more starting with cookies and ending with cool whip.
- Cover and refrigerate 24 hours or until cookies are soft and cake-like. It takes much longer for Nutter Butters to soften up than it does vanilla wafers.
- Garnish with crushed Nutter Butter cookies or peanuts. Serve with additional melted peanut butter if desired.
Notes
- The Large box of instant pudding has 6 servings and is usually around 5-oz.
- Banana flavored instant pudding would probably be great with this if you can find it in the large 6-serving size.
- You need good ol’ regular peanut butter for this (Skippy, Peter Pan, Jif, etc.), not sugar free, all natural, “homemade”, etc. I use Jif. Exclusively, actually. I could be the poster child for Jif I love it so much.
Would it be possible to switch this up and use nutella instead? I can even use nutter butter cookies still. I have this odd thing about massive amounts of peanut better...
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine why not. I have no idea if nutella melts like peanut butter but I would imagine so.
DeleteIf you live near a Russian store(only place to find these I know) there are wafers that are about 12" across for a common dessert they make which works very well for this. I have made it for a friend that cannot have peanuts. And there are other nut butters available if you want, just use confectioners sugar to smooth out the butter like the Jif.
DeleteYum Mandy!! Love the PB addition - heavenly!! On my list to make ( :
ReplyDeleteI lasted about an hour, okay fifteen minutes before I dug into this (quality control doncha know) and the crunchiness of the cookies with the other flavors and textures was awesome! I don't comment unless I actually make and taste the recipe and girl I gotta tell you, you are my favorite recipe maker upper in the whole world, keep 'em coming please.
ReplyDeleteHa! Pam, thank you!!!
DeleteI cannot wait to make this! Maybe this weekend. I love me some peanut butter dontcha know! I love your recipes, my husband thinks your shrimp and grits recipe is the best thing I've ever made. Thanks for all the great food ideas.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds unbelievably delish!!! I'm going to try it next month for my daughter's engagement party, it's just family and not formal; she'll love it!!
ReplyDeleteIn fact, would you have any suggestions for glamming it up a bit, maybe on top? I know good ole comfort desserts are fine at special events, just wondering what I could do to have it look like it's really special.
DeleteHow about putting chocolate shavings on top? Or making a pillow of Cool Whip on top then lining a cookie sheet with parchment lightly coated with butter baking spray, put cookie cutters on top, melt chocolate, pour into cookiec cutters and chill until hardened, arrange on top? Or create a pillow of Cool Whip and sprinkle with a crumb topping, and add a sprinkled layer of grated/copped Reese's peanut butter cups?
DeleteHi Mandy! I love your website and recipes! I made this on Saturday and I only have one word.........OH MY GOD! Ok, that was 3. This was so decadent and delicious. No one would guess how easy it is. It made me a very selfish person. My son asked if there was any left last night and I lied. I told him it was gone. He found the pan and called me out! I had to share :). It's too good to share!
ReplyDeletePinned it and gonna make it! Looks incredible, I can't wait. I love peanut butter desserts.
ReplyDeleteJif is the only peanut butter I use too. Thanks for the recipe!
ReplyDeleteVickie
I just made a half recipe of this for my husband’s birthday because there are only four of us. It fit perfectly in a loaf pan! I did a small box of pudding and whipped a cup of cream instead of the cool whip. Can’t wait to eat it!
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