These Southerner’s Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bites are beyond the best remix to the South’s famous Banana Pudding. Packed with the original sweet flavors, this recipe adds a nice spice which stems from it’s gingersnap cookie crust and the creaminess definitely comes from the burst of cream cheese in ever bite. Small enough to keep yourself from eating too many (if that’s your thing!) and plenty enough to satisfy a big sweet tooth!
So, you know that my heart lies in the South! I’ve been a Florida girl my whole life and while I’ve resided in NYC for quite some time, I’ve always stayed true to my good ole’ southern values. This definitely being one.
If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you’d know that I LOVE BANANA PUDDING! However, since minimizing dairy ingredients in my day to day, I haven’t had a chance to enjoy a good bowl of this stuff in a while.
And while there are vegan options available, this just is one of those recipes that I’m stubborn to change in a major way. More so, because this dates back to my childhood and being one of the sweet treats that my Grandmother would make, right before we enjoyed a night filled with big blankets and a movie.
I remember her always whipping together her Banana pudding with the instant pudding mix (which I’ve still used to this day) and loading it with bananas and vanilla wafers. YUM!
I would love the extra vanilla wafers that were tucked away in each layer and then topped over the whipped cream. Boy, was it delicious!
Now, I decide to make this ever so often, in honor of the times she would make them and it brings back such great memories!
This has become the only thing left of Florida that I get to participate in while I’m thousands of miles away.
However, this is definitely a recipe that I’d like to pass down to my little guy once he’s older (of course with a secret family ingredient) and create that tradition for him to pass down and so forth and so on.
This time, I wanted to change things up a bit. Firstly, I wanted to make small bites so that I managed the amount of dairy I ate. Haha!
But secondly, I wanted to merge my two favorite things–Banana Pudding + Cheesecake and make a NEW FAVORITE. And that I did!
Initially, I was a bit concerned that it may not taste that great. I mean, these ARE two bold flavored desserts. But, Ya’ll…..THIS WORKED and it worked BEAUTIFULLY.
For some Southerner’s, they often stick to the traditional vanilla wafers as the “star cookie”, however, others take a more bold approach and use gingersnap cookies which are amazing and have a nice taste of spice to them.
So, for this recipe, I wanted to infuse both by using gingersnap cookies as the crust, while still keeping things traditional the way my Grandma did it, by topping them with vanilla wafers. “Chile“(a Southern colloquialism)….these sweet bites that starred both, were amazing! Haha.
Plus, it’s a super easy recipe and did not require much time at all. A majority of the work is done in the refrigerator as the cheesecakes “set” after being baked and cooled.
And the design isn’t that difficult once you have a pipping bag and slice of the banana and vanilla wafers.
The great thing, is that the whipped cream is solid enough to hold the banana slice and vanilla wafers well because of a “secret ingredient”—powdered sugar!
So, no worries about this being an utter disaster or impossible to replicate.
Now, on to the recipe……
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YUMMY! My hubby fav! I’m am going to ha e to try this! ?
Thanks so much Amanda! I do hope that you and your hubby enjoys them when you do try it! 🙂
Oooh this looks so good. I will definitely be trying this recipe at a later date #blmgirls
Thanks so much Yaya! I do hope that you enjoy! 🙂
Oh my goodness, these look so AMAZING!! I’m am definitely trying, both my husband and I loooove any dessert with banana, and they look so easy to make! Thanks you so much for the recipe!
Thanks so much Tifanee! I do hope that you and your husband enjoy this one! It’s surely is amazing!
These banana pudding cheesecake bites are so tempting, I feel like grabbing them right now out of the screen:)
Haha! Thanks so much! 🙂
Yuuuuummmmy! These look SO amazing. I’ll add them all to my recipe book.
Thanks so much Keianna! They are really delicious and at least you can have several ones and not feel guilty! I know I did! Haha.
Oh my word! These look absolutely delicious! I pinned it so I could come back to it later! Your photos are beautiful!
Thanks so much Morgan! They are really delicious! I LOVE Banana pudding since my childhood so I most certainly enjoyed it! I hope that you enjoy! 🙂
This recipe looks so good and easy to make. I pinned as well!
soooo good. I made for my baby’s pre birthday. Gotta still make a chocolate cake but we ate all these little goodies last night!
Love the name of your site so it drew me in for the recipe….
Hi Yolanda! Thanks so much! I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed these! They really are delicious! I hope that you find some other great sweet treats on the blog! 🙂
Thanks so much MJ! Yes, it’s definitely really easy and GOOD for sure! I hope that you enjoy it once you give it a try! 🙂