This banana pastry cream is rich and so luscious and perfect to use in all kinds of cakes, cupcakes, or sweet rolls, or use it to make banana pudding dessert – like the famous Magnolia bakery banana pudding.

Instead of using bananas in this pastry cream, I steep warm cream, milk, and vanilla bean with very ripe bananas slices overnight to get tons of banana-vanilla flavor.

This way you get the most intense and satisfying banana and vanilla flavors in your pastry cream. 

 

Make sure to use a very ripe banana, the dark brown and spotty bananas are the best, the riper the banana is the more prominent banana flavor you´ll get in your banana pastry cream.

If you´re a banana fan, you're going to love this banana pastry cream.

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