Quick and Easy Baked Banana Pudding

This delicious banana pudding recipe is low-fat and a great refreshing dessert or snack. Use fat-free condensed milk and low-fat cookies and you can eat this one guilt-free.

Ingredients

1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 pinch salt
2 1/2 cups 1% low-fat milk or fat-free milk
14 ounces fat-free sweetened condensed milk
2 large egg yolks
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups banana, sliced and divided
45 low-fat vanilla wafer cookies, divided
4 large egg whites, room temperature
1/4 cup sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325F degrees.
Combine flour and salt in a medium saucepan. Gradually add milks and yolks; stir well. Cook over medium heat 8 minutes or until thick, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
Arrange 1 cup banana slices in bottom of a 2 quart baking dish. Spoon one-third of pudding mixture over banana. Arrange 15 wafers around edge of dish. Push cookies into pudding.
Beat egg whites at high speed of a mixer until foamy. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Spread meringue, evenly over pudding, sealing to edge of dish.
Bake for 25 minutes or until golden.