Chocolate Banana Pudding
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INGREDIENTS
  • Crumb Crust:
  • 1 sleeve chocolate graham crackers, crushed.
  • 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
  • 1 1/2 cups finely chopped pecans
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup melted butter
  • Filling:
  • 1 8 oz cream cheese
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 packages instant devils food pudding
  • 3 cups cold milk
  • 6 sliced bananas
  • 1 8 oz frozen cool whip, thawed
DIRECTIONS
  1. Preheat oven to 300.
  2. In a large bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, coconut, pecans and sugar.
  3. Add melted butter and stir well.
  4. Spread mixtgure on a cookie sheet and bake for about 15 mins or until coconut is golden brown, stirring regularly and watching to prevent burning. Set aside to cool.
  5. In another bowl, beat cream cheese at medium speed with mixer until smooth.
  6. Add condensed milk and beat until smooth. Stir pudding mix and milk and beat until mixture is smooth.
  7. Reserve 2 Tablespoons crumb mixture for topping.
  8. In a large glass serving bowl, layer 1/3 of pudding, 1/2 bananas, 1/2 crumb mixture, another 1/3 pudding, 1/2 crumb mixture, remaining bananas and remaining pudding.
  9. Top with cool whip and sprinkle with crumbs.
  10. Keep cold until serving.
  11. Crumb mixture maybe be made a day ahead and kept in airtight containing.
RECIPE BACKSTORY
I found this recipe by accident in my pile of unmade recipe. It is a very impressive recipe to take to a party.