I could do a “My story in photos” with desserts, but it would be the ever-growing saga of my fat butt….and really, who wants to see that?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
So instead, we have:
Banana Pudding by Brooklyn
Official recipe:
Not yo’ Mama’s Banana Pudding by Paula Deen
Ingredients
* 2 bags Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies
* 6 to 8 bananas, sliced
* 2 cups milk
* 1 (5-ounce) box instant French vanilla pudding
* 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
* 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
* 1 (12-ounce) container frozen whipped topping thawed, or equal amount sweetened whipped cream
Directions
Line the bottom of a 13 by 9 by 2-inch dish with 1 bag of cookies and layer bananas on top.
In a bowl, combine the milk and pudding mix and blend well using a handheld electric mixer. Using another bowl, combine the cream cheese and condensed milk together and mix until smooth. Fold the whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture. Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture and stir until well blended. Pour the mixture over the cookies and bananas and cover with the remaining cookies. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Now, let’s get real here.
I ain’t doin’ none o’ that.
You have bananas:
Ya take a box of french vanilla pudding and ya pour 2 cups of milk in like so….
You mix it with mixer wearing your hot pink princess oven mitt with the satin ruffle.
You don’t have a Princess oven mitt? Me either, but Brooklyn does, and she says you have to have one, or you can’t cook. {shrugs shoulders} Sorry!
“Then you chop up your bananas with a “budder” knife ’cause the sharp ones will CUT you.”
(WITH your princess oven mitt on, mind you…..)
Now, here is where the recipe according to Brooklyn goes awry…..you are supposed to line the bottom of the dish with COOKIES….but Miss Smarty Pants says “that’s not how you DO IT! You’re gonna mess up my pie!”
So you line the bottom of the pie with the smushed bananas and the chunks of bananas that you tried to cut smaller but again, you get the hand-smack and the “you’re messin’ it up!” Just step back and let the 4 year old do it. Trust me.
Oh you think, I’m kidding?
Don’t serve this to people who have a tendency to choke on stuff. I’m just sayin’.
But come on….she’s so excited that she “did it all by myself!!!” So just leave it. Warn the eaters there are half bananas in there and pass out knives to cut it.
Then add a layer of cookies and then the pudding. On top of the pudding, add another layer of cookies because “those are my favorite!”
Oh she was PARTICULAR about those cookies!
Look at that concentration! Cookie lining is very serious business.
Then pose:
I added another layer of banana flavored pudding to the top because we have my incredible Mother in law and Brother in law coming over to eat it and it needed to go a bit further. But this time, Brooklyn the Baker didn’t want to mix it like you’re supposed to because “it splashes, Mom! It’s gettin’ all over my Princess mitten!” So, just pray no one tastes the pudding chunks….
And cover up that ugly bad boy with whipped cream!
Of course, brother has smelled the whipped cream from the living room and must get in on the action
Get industrious and try to carve a cute bunny out of half of a banana for the top.
Get angry because it keeps falling over into the whipped cream, so chunk the banana bunny into the next room. Curse the bunny.
Stick your head into a tub of leftover whipped cream instead.
Tell Paula Deen to suck it and share the tub with a cute boy.
And that’s Banana Pudding according to Brooklyn the 4 year old……” ‘cept when we go to the Chinese place and you make me say I’m 3…but all the other times I’m 4.”
Thank you iHeartfaces for letting me share my Brooklyn’s recipe!
Be kind and cook with your kids!
Eat your heart out, Ree. I know you wish you were this good….but, come on….she’s 4 (unless we’re are the Chinese buffet….and then, ya know, it’s cheaper….). But, if you let us come have lunch with you, I’ll teach you everything Brooklyn knows. HAHAHA
I will be right over. Save some for me. YUM! Cute pictures.
Oh, you have me laughing out loud Dana. Love it! (Especially the part about how she’s “4” unless you are at the Chinese Restaurant. Bwahahaha!!)
Very cute!! How fun was that? See how I Heart Faces brings the whole family together:-) ha! I think I’ll try that with my kids. Looks tasty. Mine love Cool Whip and most of it probably won’t make it on the pudding:-)
hahaha… you’re hilarious! Will have to try this one out with the kids. 🙂
If there were winners chosen this week, this would be #1…I LOVE it :0) Ms B is Top Chef in my eyes!
Love this Dana!! I was laughing so hard! Excellent job, love the b/w photo of your princess.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this post!!!…….beautiful pictures too!!
This was just so clever! I laughed through the whole thing. I thought the exact same thing as Angie from The Arthur Clan and I also agree that if there was a winner this would be it.
Wonderful job I just love it. PS my husband thinks I have gone mad since I kept busting out laughing. He He.:-D
Yum!
Woot! You go Brooklyn!
Too cute – and yummy!
Totally awesome – just wait til they get a little bigger, they can completely take over the kitchen 🙂
Kristin
When I first saw this yesterday, I laughed out loud so many times! Your photography website is very interesting, too. I didn’t realize you were in Owasso. Do you go to the Tulsa Bloggers meetings? I have thought about going, but haven’t done so yet. Hope to meet you in person one day! 🙂
HA!!! I was laughing through the entire thing, but your comment about saying how old she is at the Chinese place really got me! Thanks, it was just the laugh I needed today!
Oh my gosh Dana, this is hilarious! I cracked up through the whole thing. And the princess oven mitt- a.must.have. How would anyone accomplish anything in the kitchen without it? I don’t think it’s possible. So how did it taste? Did you have to cut your pudding with a knife? Hahahaha
The black and white photo- GORGEOUS.
And oh my gosh, I am genius for mispelling “Canon” every.single.time. I beg for one on my blog! How in the world are the Cannon people gonna know that they are permitted to drop one off on my doorstep if they don’t find my blog when doing a Google search? Ugh.
Tell my GreatOne, Brooklyn, I can just see her Great Grandmother making banana pudding, (and other goodies). What a wonderful, wonderful, story, this is (but I wish Brother Austin, and Miss Dana had appeared! Thank you for this. You are a real Artist (capital “A”).
great pics……looks like the last one played hard and had a great day! Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Oh Dana! That little Brooklyn is so beautiful. She looks so much like you as a child. I love the photos and the comments. So happy you do this, so I can watch your kids grow up. LOVE YOU! Bless you and your family, always.
Love your “angle” on the theme! I’ve been out of town and had a little “adventure” which will prevent me from really doing any desserts for a while, so I don’t think I’m even going to visit the rest of the yummy posts; it would just make me cry. BUT… this one was waaaaaay too cute to miss! And oh, the honesty… I thought I was the only one who ever made their child lie about their age! hahahaha… you rock, sister!
Too SWEET! Dana! OMG
Perfectly perfect! 🙂 Love it!
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