These Banana Cream Tarts are a super easy recipe to to make. This dessert consists of a banana cream pudding filling in a chocolate crust, ripe bananas and drizzled with melted chocolate. If you love bananas and chocolate together you are going to love these tarts!
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The individual tarts make this simple recipe fit for a dinner table dessert. Prefer a no-bake banana pie? Simply pour the filling into a store-bought crust and allow to set up in the fridge.
Ingredients
- Water
- Instant banana pudding mix: be sure to use instant and not the pudding mix that requires cooking
- Sweetened condensed milk
- Heavy cream
- Ripe bananas
- Prebaked chocolate tart shells: check out our chocolate crust recipe (I like to use 4" tart pans with a removeable bottom for easy release)
Time needed
Give yourself a few hours to make this recipe as the banana pudding filling needs to set up in the fridge for a few hours:
- Combine the instant banana pudding mix, sweetened condensed milk and water in a medium-sized bowl. Whisk well until no lumps remain. Cover and place in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
- After the pudding sets, whip the heavy cream to medium peaks. Gently fold the cream into the banana pudding until no streaks remain.
- The filling is now ready to fill your pre-baked tart shells.
Flavor variations
Consider adding the banana filling to a prebaked graham cracker crust (a store-bought crust is fine). The graham crackers and banana cream work well together.
Layer sliced strawberries on the bottom of the crust before adding the banana cream. Bananas and strawberries are a match made in heaven!
FAQs
How to decorate the banana cream tarts?
How do I keep bananas from turning brown in the pie?
📋 Recipe
Individual Banana Cream Tarts Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 Pre-baked 4" Tart Shells Check out our chocolate pie crust recipe
- 1 ½ Cups Water
- ⅔ Cup Instant Banana Pudding Mix (be sure to use instant!)
- 1 14 ounce can Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream
- 2 Large Ripe Bananas Cut to ¼" slices
- 2 Ounces Chocolate, melted (optional - for drizzling over tarts)
Instructions
Make Banana Cream
- Whisk together banana pudding, condensed milk and water in a medium sized bowl.
- Cover bowl and place in refrigerator for 2 hours or overnight.
- Remove bowl from the refrigerator and stir banana pudding until smooth.
- Whip heavy cream to medium peaks.
- Gently fold whipped cream into the banana pudding. Don't overmix as you may deflate the whipped cream.
Assemble Tarts
- Place 4 banana slices in the bottom of each tart.
- Pipe banana cream over the top of bananas in the tart shell. Alternatively, spoon filling into the tart shell.
- Optional: drizzle with melted chocolate.
- Place tarts in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Nutrition
Instructional video
Lorie says
Banana overload! This is a nice recipe that we enjoyed. I added a bunch of peanut brittle to the top of the tarts and it looked so pretty.
dessertswithstephanie says
Thank you for the feedback. Always nice to know when my readers make a recipe. The peanut brittle sounds great to add a bit more crunch to the creamy pudding filling.
Monidipa says
Wow, I'm impressed with the mouth-watering Banana Cream Tarts recipe on this page! The step-by-step instructions with accompanying photos make it easy to follow along and recreate these delicious tarts. I appreciate the helpful tips and variations provided as well. Can't wait to give this recipe a try!