Homemade Banana Pudding Recipe
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Looking for an easy and healthy snack idea? This homemade banana pudding recipe is simple, delicious and PACKED with protein!
Homemade Banana Pudding Recipe
I’m a snacking kind of person. I need my mid-morning snack, mid-afternoon snack, and my before-bed snack. I think it just comes along with my metabolism but I feel like I’m constantly needing to eat! So because of this, I’m always on the lookout for a great, easy snack to make.
It’s important to me that the snack is easy to make and takes only a few ingredients because I just don’t have much space to store a bunch of special ingredients. I also don’t want to have to take a lot of time making a snack, especially when there are other things to do and all I want to do is eat!
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That’s why I love this homemade Banana Pudding recipe. It’s so simple, takes a few ingredients (that most of us already have on hand) and it can be whipped up in a matter of minutes. It may not be your traditional homemade Banana Pudding recipe but this cottage cheese pudding tastes great and makes a fast snack (with tons of protein!) when you need it.
Homemade Banana Pudding Recipe
What You Need:
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese
- 1 banana
- 2 tablespoons yogurt
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
How to Make:
Mix all ingredients together in a blender and blend until smooth. Enjoy cold or with a dollop of whipped cream on the top. You can also top it with banana slices or add in a vanilla wafer.
–Make your own Homemade Vanilla Wafers
This recipe makes enough for one person (perfect snack size!) so if you are having this recipe for dessert for a larger crowd, you will want to make this recipe as many times as there are people you are serving. (ie: 2 people = double the recipe, 4 people = quadruple the recipe)
The great thing about this recipe is that the average 1/2 cup of cottage cheese contains 14 grams of protein so this is a high protein banana pudding! That’s about 28% of your needed daily intake. Not bad for a dessert/snack!
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Homemade Banana Pudding Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese
- 1 banana
- 2 tablespoons yogurt
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Instructions
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Place all items together in a blender.
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Blend well until smooth.
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Enjoy cool or with a dollop of whipped cream.
Here are some other great homemade pudding recipes you may want to try as well:
Homemade Chocolate Pudding
Homemade Vanilla Pudding
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And you can find even more and Snacks on Little House Living too!
If you love this homemade snack idea you will absolutely love my book, Little House Living: The Make Your Own Guide to a Frugal, Simple, and Self-Sufficient Life. It features 130 recipes just like these that are perfect for your household!
Do you like to make banana pudding or any kind of pudding? What are some of your favorite high protein, easy to make snacks?
This Homemade Banana Pudding Recipe was originally published on Little House Living in October 2013. It has been updated as of October 2019.
What, Healthy pudding?! Gasp! Looks delicious!
What is a good substitute for the cottage cheese?
You might be able to use ricotta but I haven’t tried anything else yet in this recipe.
I couldn’t call that banana pudding without the nilla wafers.
You could make Homemade Vanilla Wafers too!
Our Southern banana pudding is vanilla pudding layered with banana slices and vanilla wafers. Yummo!
My dad loves banana cream pie so I wonder if he’d love this pudding? I just might make this for his birthday next month. Thanks for sharing this simple and frugal recipe!
Mmm, looks yummy! I bet my daughter would absolutely love helping me make, and eat this!
This might work well for when Lucas gets his wisdom teeth out next week!
Wow, this is really quick and easy. I was expecting to see a recipe that required cooking. I love this recipe and it is a great way to use up those extra bananas you have around the house.
Great source of protein also.
Yummy! I love pudding and bananas so I know that I would love this recipe. However, I must resist because I am no longer purchasing bananas because of how far they must be traveled….a big environmental impact.
I’d be interested to hear feedback after some of you ladies make and eat this. I can’t imagine it in my mind it being very tasty.
Made this tonight and my 3 year old son enjoyed it 🙂
I just made this using my Ninja, and threw in a graham cracker. My kids love it, and so do I. Homerun healthy snack! I may add some raw organic honey to it next time too. :0)
I have only frozen bananas. Think it would work?
Might be a little cold but then it would just taste like ice cream 🙂
I love homemade pudding! I never would have thought to use cottage cheese! What a great idea, and healthy too!!
This sounds so simple but I have to agree that I am not sure about the cottage cheese. Maybe I will take you up on your suggestion of trying the ricotta. Thanks for the healthy pudding idea and sharing it on Showcase Your Talent Thursday.
I love that this is a healthy dessert choice. I have always loved banana pudding. I’m new to your blog, visiting from Friendship Friday. Hope you will stop by my blog and say Hello.
I love banana pudding and this looks easy and healthy, yum! Thank you for linking up this week.
Jenn
Thank you so much for stopping by Four Seasons Blog Hop! You have a lovely blog! I have family the lives in Rapid City:) See you tonight at the Hop! Lynn @ Turnips 2 Tangerines
Is it supposed to be 1 tablespoon of vanilla? I think 1 teaspoon would make more sense. I used the larger amount and it was very bitter/ strong.
What kind of yogurt did you use? Plain Greek yogurt?
I like to use plain whole milk yogurt in this recipe but it will really work with whatever plain yogurt you prefer.
Looks really good and so simple. Thank you.
I will definitely be using this website. So many good recipes.
Good morning, Merissa 🌞. How are you? I’m fine. Yesterday I tried banana pudding 🍌 that I made. WOW 😲! It turned out very delicious 😋, well-flavored healthy, irresistible pleasant 😁, and heavenly 😇. I loved it 🥰. You’re a magnificent and exceptional chef 🤩.