Basically, do you torture your friends?
See, in my family, there’s this killer recipe for banana pudding. I’m not super crazy about plain packaged pudding, but I’ll certainly doctor it up and enjoy. Still, I wouldn’t expect to LOVE banana pudding ever. This stuff is thick and sweet and packed with fruit, though. There’s a sweet graham cracker crust. And it’s topped with Cool Whip (which I do like a lot). It makes a 9×13 pan and I could devour half of it in one go, no problem.
But it’s a secret recipe. Seriously?
Personally, I’ve never really understood the big deal with secret recipes. I feel like a lot of people find cooking intimidating enough as it is. I certainly don’t want to make it any more unapproachable. Quite the opposite, in fact. Everybody can cook!
Well, I don’t think this pudding requires actual cooking, but you get the point.
The other point is that I was craving banana pudding earlier this week. I don’t even know the last time I had the real thing, but suddenly I couldn’t get it out of my head. I put my creativity to work and tried a few different takes on single-serving banana pudding, and this was my favorite. It’s so easy that I feel silly calling it a recipe; it’s more of a formula. And it just so happens to be pretty freaking healthy.
It has a whole bunch of vitamins and fiber from fruit, protein and calcium from the Greek yogurt, some sweetness and crunch from the cereal, and the cream cheese makes it, well, creamy. (I’d like to add that I’m not a huge fan of cream cheese on its own, but I think it tones down the tang of the yogurt and adds a lot to the texture here!)
So, ta-da, it’s breakfast banana pudding, and I’m sharing it with you. Hopefully this holds you over till I can find a way to share the real thing. 
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Do you have any secret recipes?
Haha, to my family, all my recipes are “secret”. No one cares at all about what’s in it. As long as nothing “weird” is in it (what does that mean???), they could care less and are so disinterested in food and cooking, hahahaha!
Hahaha I guess that’s a different kind of secret recipe ?
I call my chickpea brownies a secret recipe at work, mostly because no one believes me about what’s in them. I have started making my own nut butter and have a proven strategy, but I wouldn’t call it a secret. I find that things taste good if I follow the recipe. It’s when people try to use like gluten free flour or add protien powder and take out other things that the recipe doesn’t work. It’s like, just follow the directions!
Developing recipes and altering them is definitely a challenge! But yes, if you follow recipes correctly, I don’t think you can mess ’em up too badly!
I love the versatility of this recipe! You could never get bored with it, and pudding for breakfast just sounds festive and fun
Thanks, Julia! It’s definitely more a formula that you can tweak to your liking than a set-in-stone recipe!
This looks really good and thanks for sharing. It seems like you can tweak it a lot to meet your personal preference too.
Exactly – I love it when you have a good base recipe that you can switch up according to your mood! Thanks for reading
Love the you made banana pudding healthier! Perfect for breakfast
Thank you!
The pics look great and I want to try this!!!
Thanks, Kristy! I’d love to know if you give it a try