Skip to main content

Sinful Banana Pudding

"No cook amaretto banana pudding"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Vanilla and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,430 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a large bowl, whisk the instant vanilla pudding mix with the whole milk, sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice, amaretto and vanilla extract for about 2 minutes until smooth and slightly thickened.

  2. Let the pudding mixture stand for 5 minutes so it thickens further.

  3. Gently fold the thawed whipped topping into the pudding until evenly combined and light.

  4. Slice the bananas into rounds and set them aside.

  5. Spread a layer of vanilla wafer cookies over the bottom of a large serving dish, breaking them as needed to fill gaps.

  6. Top the cookies with a layer of sliced bananas, then spoon a layer of the pudding mixture over them and spread it smooth.

  7. Repeat the layers of cookies, bananas and pudding, finishing with pudding on top, then reserve a few wafers and bananas to garnish if desired.

  8. Cover the dish and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight so the pudding sets and the cookies soften before serving.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Vanilla + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Vanilla + milktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Milk + bananatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,464 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Condensed milk + bananatop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Milk + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, milk, condensed milk, banana):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, milk, condensed milk, banana. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).