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Banana Pudding Ice Cream

May 13, 2014

Banana pudding ice cream is everything you love about everyone’s favorite potluck dessert in frozen form. Vanilla wafers included.
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Of all the desserts that I’ve eaten in my thirty-something years in the South (that is, my entire life), the one that defines the South is banana pudding. I can’t think of a more definitive Southern dessert, and the funny thing is that it’s not exactly native to the South…apparently Northerners eat banana pudding too. Actually, I found out not that long ago that warm banana pudding (usually topped with a meringue) is traditional to the South, whereas cold banana pudding is native to the North…which is odd to me since in aforementioned thirty plus years in Tennessee, in all the church potlucks, family reunions, et cetera, et cetera, that I’ve attended,I have never, ever eaten a warm banana pudding (though I do plan on trying this soon so that I can make an informed decision about which I prefer, though I suspect I’ll prefer the cold banana pudding that I grew up on).
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Anyway, Nana’s Frozen Custard-the custard joint that has forever ruined all other ice cream shops for me-recently announced that they would be closing their store and operating solely as a truck at local events (like the Chattanooga Market). Needless to say, I was heartbroken. Number one, I didn’t even get to eat there one more time before they announced their closing. Number two….I hate crowds and for that reason generally avoid the market! I guess I’ll have to get over it if I want to eat Nana’s custard ever again. However, I have declared that this is a great reason for me to start cracking some codes and devising my own ice cream to ruin all other ice cream.
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One of the popular flavors at Nana’s was Nana Pudding….so I decided to amp up the banana ice cream that I posted a long time ago by turning it into banana pudding ice cream. I added some banana curd from The Faux Martha and some homemade vanilla wafers from Alton Brown (though you can certainly buy them if you want!). Results? Banana pudding ice cream perfection.

Even my banana-hating husband liked my banana pudding ice cream!
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Mary

Banana Pudding Ice Cream

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Ingredients

  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup half-and-half
  • 3/4 cup heavy cream
  • 2-3 frozen bananas
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup crumbled vanilla wafers
  • 1 recipe banana curd (optional, but it really does add to the banana flavor!)

Instructions

  1. Whisk the eggs yolks in a bowl until they are thickened and light in color.
  2. Combine the half-and-half, the cream, and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk until the mixture is hot and the sugar is completely dissolved.
  3. Temper the eggs by gradually pouring about half a cup of the hot cream/half-and-half mixture into the eggs while whisking constantly. Whisk the mixture back into the saucepan. Continue to cook over medium heat while stirring constantly until the mixture begins to bubble and thicken. Pour through a fine mesh strainer into a bowl with a lid. Pour half a cup of the base into a ramekin and freeze; refrigerate remaining base until completely cooled. Place an 8-inch metal pan in the freezer.
  4. When you are ready to make the ice cream, puree the frozen bananas until smooth. Whisk along with the vanilla extract and the frozen ice cream base into the ice cream base until completely incorporated. Pour into your ice cream freezer and freeze according to machine directions. Pour into the metal cake pan and freeze for at least two hours.
  5. Layer the ice cream with the vanilla wafers and the banana curd into a freezer-safe bowl. Freeze for several hours before serving.

Notes

This makes a quart of ice cream; serving size assumes 1/2-cup servings. Prep time includes freezing time; depending on your ice cream maker, this could take slightly longer (my Kitchenaid attachment took 20 minutes). Prep/cook time does not include time to age the ice cream in the freezer.

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Comments

  1. huntfortheverybest says

    May 14, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    it looks delicious!
    Reply
    • Chattavore says

      May 14, 2014 at 8:38 pm

      It really was!
      Reply
  2. thefauxmartha says

    May 14, 2014 at 8:41 pm

    Oh my goodness, this is a dream come true! Making this this summer!
    Reply
    • Chattavore says

      May 14, 2014 at 9:30 pm

      I hope you love it as much as we did!
      Reply
  3. Sumo Ramen Recipes says

    May 20, 2014 at 8:01 am

    That ice cream looks crazy, can't wait to try it. Thanks for sharing Chattavore
    Reply
    • Chattavore says

      May 20, 2014 at 8:29 pm

      You're quite welcome. I hope you like it!
      Reply
  4. Jessie Weaver says

    May 20, 2014 at 9:46 pm

    Go to Sylvan Park Restaurant on 8th in Nashville. They have the best banana pudding in the world, and it's topped with meringue. I don't think it's cold, but I can't remember. This looks soooo yummy. I love Bluebell Banana Pudding ice cream, and I can only imagine this would be 80 times better!
    Reply
    • Chattavore says

      May 20, 2014 at 9:50 pm

      Thanks for the suggestion, Jessie! I cannot for the life of me figure out why I have lived in the Tennessee my entire life and am just now finding out that warm and meringue-topped is the "southern" way of serving banana pudding! I posted something on Facebook about it and all of my friends were like, "Um, yeah." Hmmmm.
      Reply
      • Jessie Weaver says

        May 21, 2014 at 5:21 pm

        Honestly, I don't know that I've had it that way anywhere else ever. And I've lived in Tennessee for 10 years now. So it's not just you, I promise. Maybe I just don't have a Southern Gramma to make it that way for me.
        Reply
        • Chattavore says

          May 21, 2014 at 8:08 pm

          Apparently, my mom's mother (who passed away 9 months before I was born :( ) made it that way. My own mother, however, has always made it cold. And I do not remember my other grandmother ever, ever making banana pudding. It's funny, she was born and raised in the South but I guess because they traveled the world so much I don't think of her as a "Southern grandmother"!
          Reply
  5. Sherry says

    August 15, 2016 at 7:18 am

    What is the recipe for the banana curd?
    Reply
    • Mary // Chattavore says

      August 15, 2016 at 8:55 am

      There is a link to find the recipe from Fauxmartha. :)
      Reply

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