Banana Pudding Pancakes loaded with all the components of the classic southern dessert- bananas, vanilla wafers, and whipped cream. Is it breakfast or is it dessert? You decide. 🙂
Primarily I’m a chocolate lover, but I also love banana pudding, especially playing with variations of it. And yes, I just realized I don’t have a recipe on this blog for plain ole banana pudding. I’ll have to rectify that soon.
I’ve made Banana Pudding Cupcakes (delicious!) and Banana Pudding Bars (such a fun dessert), and now Banana Pudding Pancakes. The pancakes may be my favorite.
I can’t resist pancakes as it is, but when you add a mashed banana and crushed vanilla wafers to the batter, then layer the pancakes with a thick and creamy pudding syrup studded with fresh banana slices, and top the whole thing off with fresh whipped cream and crushed vanilla wafers- Absolute heaven! Breakfast really doesn’t get any better.
How To Make Banana Pudding Pancakes:
- Combine the dry ingredients for the pancake batter.
- Combine the wet ingredients in a second bowl.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry.
- Heat a griddle and cook the pancakes.
- Keep the pancakes warm in a 200 degree oven while you make the pudding sauce.
- Whisk the pudding sauce ingredients together in a saucepan. Bring to a boil while whisking constantly. Boil for 1 minute and then stir in vanilla and remove from heat. Stir in the banana slices.
- Layer the pancakes and pudding sauce and top with whipped cream and crushed vanilla wafers.
Banana Pudding Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup vanilla wafer crumbs
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg,, beaten
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1 ripe banana,, mashed
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups milk
- Vegetable oil or cooking spray
Vanilla Pudding Sauce
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 cup sugar
- pinch of salt
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 cup half and half
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 banana,, thinly sliced
- 1 cup whipped cream,, either homemade or store bought
- 1/2 cup crushed vanilla wafers
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, vanilla wafer crumbs, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- In another bowl, combine egg, melted butter, mashed banana, vanilla extract, and milk. Add to bowl with dried ingredients and mix just until combined.
- Heat a griddle or large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Coat with Vegetable oil or cooking spray. Pour 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake and cook until set on one side, flip, and continue to cook until set all the way through. Keep warm.
- For Pudding Syrup, in a small saucepan combine cornstarch, 1/2 cup sugar, and a pinch of salt. Whisk in 2 egg yolks, 1/2 and 1/2, and 1 cup milk. Heat slowly, whisking constantly. Boil for 1 minute. Stir in vanilla and remove from heat.
- Add banana slices to Pudding Syrup.
- To serve, stack pancakes, layering a small amount of pudding syrup between pancakes. Top with whipped cream, more Pudding Syrup, and vanilla wafer crumbs.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Originally published March 8, 2014.
More Pancake Recipes That Can Pass for Dessert
Red Velvet Pancakes with Cream Cheese Drizzle
Pumpkin Pancakes with Bourbon Vanilla Maple Syrup
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Could the banana pudding mixture be made ahead of time to make it faster/easier the morning of? Or is it best made fresh?
Great recipe. That’s very interesting how you use the vanilla wafers here. I’ve never seen anybody do that. It gets me thinking about how one could use other flavors of wafers in cooking/baking (i.e. lemon). Thanks.
That’s a fabulous idea Bernard. Lemon flavor would be great and there are so many flavors of oreos to try now! 🙂
Please don’t give these to your kids for breakfast unless of course it’s a week day and you can torture the teacher
How many pancakes does this make?
You’re a genius! The combination here is a killer! Got any left? I’d love to come for breakfast. 🙂
You come to breakfast Jo and I’ll make you a fresh batch 🙂
OMG! If even for one minute you would consider this decadent creation to be a breakfast dish, you are in my kind of woman circle. I am laughing here. Totally awesome. I am on a pancake kick right now, so that is probably why this recipe is on my vibrational wave length. It would be fun to serve it, just to see people’s eyes pop. Maybe bring out to some kind of special music.
LOL. It is kind of pushing it to classify as breakfast. Definitely a sugar high that won’t wear off until lunch 🙂
okay…you have combined two greatest inventions ever! pudding and pancakes!
I’m a bit of a pancake fanatic — but these are completely new to me!! They look so fantastic! Yum!
Fantastic pancakes! If only somebody could make them for me, I just feel too lazy 🙂
Breakfast is always best when someone makes it for you 😉
I cannot stop drooling! These look incredibly good!
Thanks Shashi! I’m loving your savory spinach pancakes that you just posted!