INDIVIDUAL BANANA PUDDING RECIPES

Steps:

• Make pudding: Combine sugar, flour and salt in a medium pan. Slowly whisk in milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture just begins to boil, about 8 minutes. Gently boil for 3 minutes.
• Place yolks in a medium bowl. Whisk to blend. Whisking constantly, slowly drizzle in 1/2 cup of hot milk mixture. Immediately transfer yolk mixture to milk mixture in pan. Cook, stirring constantly, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat; whisk in butter and vanilla. Pour through a fine-mesh sieve into a clean bowl. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing wrap directly onto surface of pudding. Let cool, then refrigerate until cold.
• Make topping: When ready to serve, whip cream with sugar and vanilla until soft peaks form. Divide 1/2 of pudding among 4 bowls. Top with 1/2 of bananas and wafers. Add remaining pudding, bananas and wafers. Top with whipped cream.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Set out 2 mini muffin pans that each make 12 tiny muffins.
• Combine vanilla wafer crumbs, sugar, melted butter, and salt in a bowl. Stir with a fork until well blended.
• Spoon 1 tablespoon crumb mixture into each mini muffin cup. Press mixture firmly onto the bottom and up the sides of each cup.
• Bake in the preheated oven until crusts have set, about 10 minutes. Cool muffin pans on a wire rack until completely cool, about 30 minutes.
• Combine instant vanilla pudding mix, milk, and vanilla extract in a bowl. Whisk until mixture begins to thicken, about 4 minutes. Spoon pudding evenly over the 24 mini muffin cups. Set a banana slice on top of each pudding bite and refrigerate until completely chilled, about 20 minutes.