Banana Pudding Recipes

While this delicious, simple cake bakes, a sweet, rich sauce forms in the bottom of the dish.

Heather Ho incorporates one of her favorite Hawaiian fruits--bananas--into these warm puddings in caramel sauce. You will need eight 4 1/2-inch ramekins.

The only thing better than banana pudding is this banana brioche bread pudding. Enjoy!

David Guas, a New Orleans native, remembers this comforting dessert from his childhood. It's a spectacularly creamy banana pudding topped with a crumble made from vanilla wafer cookies. (Recipe adapted from DamGoodSweet.)

"With the English influence here in Kenya, there's a huge amount of pudding," explains Hubert Des Marais of this equatorial spin on the classic British dessert. To keep as many ingredients of African origin as possible, he suggests spiking the honey cream with Amarula Cream, an intensely sweet South African liqueur made from the marula fruit--said to be a favorite snack of grazing elephants.

This recipe is not an April Fools' prank. Why would you think it was? Because Miss Myra never shares it...but she did with me. And when I tell you, without equivocation, that it's the most famous, most amazing, best tasting banana pudding recipe in the world, trust me, it is. Four generations have carefully guarded this recipe as the perfect finish to the barbecued chicken with white sauce dinner for which Miss Myra's Pit Bar B-Q, near Birmingham, Alabama, has been famous for, running on three decades now. Enjoy. It's dessert heaven. –Andrew Zimmern

This best-ever Banana Pudding from Kemuri Tatsu-ya in Austin, TX gets its flavor from rich miso caramel, crunchy graham cracker topping, and perfectly smooth pastry cream. Kokuto (Japanese brown sugar) can be purchased online at chefshop.com or substituted with dark brown sugar.