It's really hot these days. 100 degree days with heat index of 105 is more than I can handle. So when my nieces and nephews came over for dinner I knew a frozen dessert would be a perfect ending to any meal. I was right. This frozen banana pudding was a hit. It took a few minutes to put together with some store bought ingredients and I let the freezer do the rest of the work.
Ingredients:
1/2 gallon of vanilla ice cream
5.6oz box of banana flavored instant pudding
2 cups of cold milk
2-3 bananas sliced or diced
1 large box of Nilla (vanilla) wafer cookies
1 tub of cool whip
* You will need a container is freezer-friendly.
Melt the ice cream for a few minutes (about 2) in the microwave. You want it almost "soupy". Then add your pudding and 2 cups of milk. Stir in some chopped fresh bananas and 1/2 a tub of cool whip topping. You can keep the other half for garnish. It will look like a soupy mess, but don't worry it will all re-freeze.
Start with a layer of wafer cookies.
Pour a 1/3 of the soupy ice cream/pudding mixture over the first layer of cookies and repeat the cookies on top. Then repeat with the ice cream mixture and the cookies again. End with a final layer of the ice cream/pudding mixture. ** you will have three layer of cookies and three layers of ice cream/pudding mixture.
Allow the dessert to sit in the freezer overnight until it is set. Take out of the freezer for 10-15 minutes before serving to thaw just a bit so it is easy to serve.
Garnish with more sliced bananas and cool whip topping. Enjoy.
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