We use it in cakes, cupcakes, with fruit on top and make a simple plain vanilla pudding into trifles, and so much more for desserts.
Don't think that this is just an ordinary pudding recipe because it's the start of many desserts and there will be plenty of suggestions below.
It is certainly delicious plain, with a little whipped cream on top but the skies is the limit when it comes to pie fillings and pastry fillings.
Just check out our suggestions below.
Delicious Easy Vanilla Pudding
Once you try making this vanilla pudding from scratch you won't want that store box type, it's so delicious you'll be anxious for it to cool and eat.
Even the smell, while it's cooking, will make your mouth watering with that awesome vanilla aroma.
Whether you decide to eat this plain, with fruit, or use it as a filling it is the most delicious best tasting vanilla pudding ever!
Filling Suggestions
- cakes
- Boston cream cupcakes
- donuts
- trifles
- topped with whipped cream and berries
- served with bananas and vanilla wafers
- use this in an icebox cake
- layered with graham crackers and whipped cream parfaits
- add bananas for a banana cream pie
- add coconut for a coconut cream pie
- make a Boston cream pie
More Tips and Fun Ways to Use Pudding
- Tarts
- Parfaits
- Trifles
- Pies
- Mason Jar desserts
- Cupcake and cake fillings
- Topped with whip cream
- Sprinkled with chocolate shavings, nuts, colored sprinkles or favorite crushed candy bars
- Icebox cake
Here's What You Need to Make Homemade Vanilla Pudding (For exact Ingredients scroll down to the recipe card below)
- whole milk
- cornstarch
- salt
- sugar
- egg yolks
- butter
- pure vanilla extract
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Old Fashioned Pudding
If you were looking for a cornstarch-based homemade vanilla pudding, this is the best recipe I have ever come across.
Mom made this often when I was a child and I finally figured out the right ratio of ingredients, so this is perfect for my taste and it's nice and creamy.
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Stovetop Vanilla Pudding Recipe
Yield: 6
Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 6 MinTotal time: 21 Min
This is a homemade vanilla pudding made on the stovetop to eat as is or use as a filling for pastry or cakes.
Ingredients
- 3 cups whole milk, divided
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Using just 1/4 cup of milk add this to a bowl with cornstarch and using a fork or whisk stir together.
- Whisk the rest of the milk in a small saucepan pot, with the salt, and sugar.
- Heat this mixture heating until it starts to get some heat but do not boil it.
- In a clean large bowl, whisk the eggs then slowly whisk in the warm milk from the saucepan whisking constantly into the eggs for around 2 minutes.
- Add the egg yolk mixture back to the saucepan pot, then add in cornstarch mixture.
- Keep whisking this mixture on medium heat until this pudding thickened.
- Once it's thick add the butter and vanilla and pour into a serving dish covered with wax paper (this keeps it from forming a skin).
- This is now ready to be chilled or cooled to warm to eat and can also be used to fill cakes.
Nutrition Facts
Calories
232.32Fat (grams)
8.26Sat. Fat (grams)
4.33Carbs (grams)
34.66Fiber (grams)
0.04Net carbs
34.63Sugar (grams)
30.96Protein (grams)
5.46Sodium (milligrams)
114.8Cholesterol (grams)
116.86
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