This is the most delicious creamy Budincă vegană de banane made with only 3 ingredients and no sugar! Bonus, this recipe is also gluten-free and perfect as a vegan kid snack.
The classic banana pudding recipe is not vegan as banana custard contains eggs, milk, and butter, and if served in layers, the biscuit also contains milk and eggs and since I love puddings like my Budincă de avocado și banane or Budincă de chia cu banane și sănătoasă.
But, it’s super easy to make a delicious Banana Pudding vegan-friendly. Keep reading below!
Ingrediente și înlocuiri
Surprisingly, all you need to make a quick and easy Vegan Banana Pudding recipe are 4 ingredients.
- Lapte non-lactate – I like to use soy milk fortified with calcium. Soy milk is also higher in fat than almond milk, making the pudding much creamier. You can also use coconut milk or almond milk.
- Corn Starch or Corn Flour – I also tested the recipe with ground chia seeds and tapioca flour. These options don’t come out great. Tapioca flour is probably the best swap for corn flour if you have a corn allergy, but still, the pudding splits and doesn’t come together as with corn starch.
- Liquid Sweetener of Choice – Maple syrup, agave syrup, or banana Stevia drops. This is the best way to add a natural banana flavor to your pudding and sweetness without added white sugar. Of course, you can also swap stevia drops for 2-3 tablespoons of maple syrup or any liquid sweetener you love and use a natural banana extract as a flavor.
- Natural Banana Extract – Use only if you didn’t use banana stevia drops.
How To Make Vegan Banana Pudding
- First, stir the cornstarch with 1/4 cup of cold soy milk in a small bowl. Whisk well and set it aside.
- Next, warm 1 cup of milk in a non-stick saucepan over medium heat.
- When the milk starts simmering and forms bubbles on the side of the pan, whisk in the cornstarch slurry, reduce to low heat, and keep cooking, occasionally stirring with a wooden spoon. The pudding thickens gradually. It takes about 5 minutes to keep thick and creamy.
- Remove the pudding from the heat. Transfer it to a glass bowl and stir in the banana stevia drops or banana extract and sweetener you love.
- Let the pudding cool down for 30 minutes at room temperature. Then stir and cover the top of the bowl with plastic wrap. Make sure the wrap goes in direct contact with the pudding to seal the pudding from any air. This technique prevents the top of the pudding from drying out and forming a thin layer.
- Refrigerate for three hours to thicken. Meanwhile, bake a batch of my quick and easy almond flour shortbread with 3 ingredients. I am using these to assemble the banana vegan pudding in the next step. You can also use a store-bought vegan wafer if preferred.
Sugestii de difuzare
You can use this vegan banana pudding recipe to serve a large pudding or single-serve jars.
Single-Serve Jars
First, add a layer of banana pudding, then top with pieces of biscuit, diced or sliced banana, and a layer of coconut cream. Repeat these layers until you reach the top of the jar.
Serve with sliced almonds on top or shredded coconut for extra crunch.
Large Family Dessert
You can use this recipe to make a Southern-style vegan banana pudding.
Prepare an 8-inch x 8-inch serving dish and follow this layer pattern:
- Budinca de banane
- Vegan Vanilla Wafers
- Felii de banane – place a single layer on top of the wafers
- Frișcă vegană – you can also use my vegan coconut whipped cream recipe
Add layers until you reach the top of the dish and top it all with a whipped cream topping of choice. It can be whipped aquafaba meringue or frișcă de cocos.
Variaţii
Feel free to use this recipe to make any vegan pudding recipes following the tips below:
- Vegan Vanilla Pudding – use vanilla stevia drops, or vanilla extract and maple syrup.
- Vegan Peanut Butter Pudding – add 1-2 tablespoons peanut butter at the end and replace the banana stevia drops with vanilla flavor drops.
Stocare
This Vegan Banana Pudding stores very well in the fridge for up to 4 days if placed in an airtight container. You can freeze banana pudding as well. Simply thaw the batch in the fridge the day before serving.
Întrebări frecvente
Yes, you can add mashed banana to the pudding just before placing the bowl in the fridge and after it has cooled down for 30 minutes.
However, adding bananas to the pudding darkens its color with time. In fact, bananas oxidize quickly, and the pudding color becomes greyish after a few days.
So it’s better to consume the banana pudding immediately if you added fresh fruits to the recipe.
Some people like thicker puddings. To do this, dilute more cornstarch with 1/4 cup of milk at the beginning of the recipe. You can go up to 4-5 tablespoons, but it will look more like a vegan custard than a pudding.
To thicken the pudding at the end of the recipe, whisk 3 tablespoons of milk of choice with 1 tablespoon extra cornstarch and stir in the saucepan. Stir and cook until it thickens to your liking.
Yes, you can! Add more non-dairy milk, one tablespoon at a time, over medium heat until it reaches your favorite texture!
This is an egg-free pudding recipe. It won’t have the same striking yellow color as regular pudding recipes.
To naturally boost the color of your vegan banana pudding, add a pinch of turmeric in the mix. Don’t overdo it, or the flavor will be overpowering.
If your pudding darkens, it’s probably because you used fresh bananas. A bit of lemon juice can off the dark color but also cover the banana flavor slightly.
More Vegan Pudding And Dessert Recipes
I love creating vegan desserts, especially creamy, custardy ones. Below I listed some other delicious vegan dessert recipes for you to try.
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Budincă vegană de banane
Ingrediente
- 1 ¼ ceaşcă Lapte de soia - sau lapte vegetal care vă place
- 3 linguri Amidon de porumb - sau făină de porumb
- ½ ceaşcă piure de banane
Opțional
- ½ -1 linguriță Banana Stevia Drops - se adaptează după gust (nota 1)
- 1 / 4-1 / 2 linguriță Curcumă - pentru culoare
- 1 lingură Unt fără lactate (nesărat) - or peanut butter
Instrucțiuni
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk 1/4 cup of milk and corn starch until a flurry forms. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, add the remaining 1 cup of milk and warm over medium-high heat until it simmers and forms bubbles on the sides of the pan.
- Stir in the slurry and reduce to medium heat. Keep cooking and stirring slowly with a spoon until the mixture thickens – it takes about 5-8 minutes.
- Remove from the heat, transfer into a glass bowl and stir in banana stevia drops – or maple syrup and natural banana extract, and mashed bananas.
- Optional: You can also stir in a pinch of turmeric to boost the yellow color of the pudding. You can also stir in a tablespoon of vegan butter at the end to boost the creaminess of the pudding, or a tablespoon of natural peanut butter to add a creamy texture, or make a vegan banana peanut butter pudding.
- Set it aside uncovered for 20 minutes to steam out. Then, place a piece of plastic wrap on top of the bowl, making sure it touches the mixture to seal the pudding. No need to press. Just bring the plastic wrap in contact to prevent custard skin from forming on top when refrigerated.
- Se dă la frigider cel puțin 1 oră sau peste noapte.
Serving – single serve
- Se servesc ca deserturi individuale cu straturi din desertul meu rețetă de cremă de cocos bătută, mashed or banana slices, and crumbled of my 3-ingredients almond flour shortbread cookie recipe.
Serving large batch
- To fill a large 8-inch x 8-inch baking dish, double or triple the vegan pudding recipe.
Do you think you could use tapioca starch instead of cornstarch?
It’s tricky with this recipe. Tapioca starch provide a weird elastic texture it won’t be a pudding texture at all.
This was perfect for my toddler (who is dairy-intolerant). I subbed the syrup with honey and it was beautiful! I also couldn’t sneak a bowl. Thank you!
Mă bucur atât de mult să aud asta!
I crave banana creme pie and this satisfies that craving. I used 1 tablespoon maple syrup instead of stevia to keep it whole food plant based (and less sweet). And if overcooked it coagulates/hardens too much so I ere on the side of less time especially since it sets up in the fridge anyway. Thank you for this recipe! I’m excited to share it with my kids too!
Multumesc!!
Bună Carine,
How did you calculate the calories?
I got a calorie counter and the total for 4 servings comes to 83 calories. Your recipe says 56.
mulțumesc
I use a system called Spoonacular that calculates the whole nutrition panel. This is always indicative because macro and micronutrents can heavily vary based on the ingredients you use.
This was absolutely delicious! I used half a cup of real banana, almond milk, pure maple syrup, pure vanilla extract, and a dash of pure honey. I didn’t have banana extract or the drops. The turmeric was a perfect addition, too.
Hello instead of milk can you do water?
I don’t think it will taste very good, it might be watery and not creamy
I’d like to add bananas. How many would you suggest?
You can add 1/2 cup ! enjoy
Would this recipe work if actual banana was used instead of the extract or flavoured stevia?
Multumesc!
Absolutely and I added a paragraph in my blog post about it. The only issue, it darken the pudding with time, it gets greyish