Easy, Layered Nilla Wafer Banana Pudding Trifle is a southern, creamy, and quick dessert filled with vanilla pudding, nilla wafers, and cool whip whipped cream. This dish is the perfect no-bake dessert. Serve it on your favorite holidays!
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It’s Labor Day Weekend! Every holiday weekend I am asked about what I plan to cook and bring to our annual friends and family cookout. This year I had help from my friend, Amber. She was in town visiting me from Chicago.
We have been friends for years, but I had yet to have any of her famous banana pudding trifle. I have watched her prepare it and take photos on social media countless times before. I wanted a turn! I also wanted a small “get out of cooking for the BBQ” free card. Amber saved the day!
I went back and forth for a short while on whether I wanted to manipulate the ingredients to lighten-up the recipe some. After talking it through with Amber I decided against it. You guys know I can SNATCH pretty much any recipe.
This is Amber’s recipe. I felt like it should remain untouched. I also want to be sure my blog has Treat Yourself recipes. This recipe falls into that category. When you are consistently working hard to maintain a healthy lifestyle, you definitely deserve a reward from time to time.
I recently made Truffle Oil Mushroom Cheeseburgers that fall into this category as well. Be sure to check out the recipe!
I did the photography for these photos, but Amber did all of the food styling on her own. She did an amazing job, especially for someone who is not a food blogger!
We took the banana pudding to our friends and family BBQ and it was a major hit. There wasn’t any left to take home!
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Easy, Layered Banana Pudding Trifle
Ingredients
- 1 large box (5oz) Jell-O Cook and Serve Vanilla pudding not Instant
- 7 bananas sliced
- 3 cups 2% milk
- 1 box Nilla Wafers
- 1 16 oz container Cool Whip
Instructions
- Heat a sauce pan over medium heat. Following the pudding package instructions, add the milk and pudding mix to the pan. Stir constantly until the mixture boils.
- Pour the pudding into a mixing bowl and allow the pudding to chill for at least 5 minutes while you prep the remaining ingredients.
- Add a layer of Nilla Wafers to the bottom of the trifle dish. Continue to layer the bowl by adding a layer of cool whip, then a layer of pudding, sliced bananas, and more Nilla Wafers.
- Top with wafers and bananas. Crumble a few wafers to sprinkle throughout the top.
- Chill until serving.
Nutrition (displayed with net carbs)
Nek C
Sunday 24th of December 2023
Made this as a dessert for Christmas and appreciated how light it was. There are some many recipes out there for banana pudding, and this had a great balance of being sweet, but not too sweet!!
staysnatched
Thursday 28th of December 2023
Wonderful! So glad to hear it.
Jamel Malone
Wednesday 16th of December 2020
I made this as a last minute add for Thanksgiving and it was a hit for the family. I'm glad I there was a serving leftover to go with Black Friday meals. This was an extremely easy recipe to make! The tips on how on how to do the trifle were great since I had experience using pans. For sure using the trifle here on out.
staysnatched
Thursday 17th of December 2020
Loved your photo of this!
Julie
Tuesday 16th of June 2020
I made this twice within the last week to send to different family members! Everyone loved it! It was quick and easy and so good for a summer dessert! I don't have a trifle dish so I used a deep baking dish but I'll probably invest in a trifle dish because I can see this becoming a regular dessert I make.
staysnatched
Thursday 18th of June 2020
So good! You may have to get that dish.
Jennifer Berg
Thursday 4th of June 2020
Your pictures are beautiful! Easy to follow recipe - that made a delicious dessert. Thank you!
staysnatched
Friday 5th of June 2020
You're welcome! So glad you enjoyed it!
Margarette Puno
Saturday 23rd of September 2017
This is so fun and looks so delicious! I will definitely try this out.