Magnolia Pudding

This is easily my new favourite desert. A twist on a classical vanilla pudding, so so yummy and looks beautiful. The name is inspired by Magnolia Bakery. It can be garnished with many different fruits and flavours, I used strawberries and bananas, along with crushed up tea biscuits and walnuts, yum yum yum!

I found this recipe (in Turkish) here. I translated it below. Enjoy! :)

Strawberry banana Magnolian Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 litre milk (4 cups)
• 1 cup sugar 
• 3 tablespoons corn starch 
• 2 tablespoons flour 
• 2 egg yolks 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla or one pack of vanilla sugar 
• strawberries and bananas (either or, or any other fruit you wish to use)
• tea biscuits 
• 200 ml heavy cream 

Procedure 

1. Pour the milk in a deep non-stick saucepan. Turn up the heat on the stove and slowly mix in the sugar, cornstarch, and flour, making sure not to have any lumps. (In particular, its easy for the flour to form lumps so mix well and add it in little by little). Add the vanilla. 

2. Whisk the egg yolks and add it to the milk mixture. Make sure to mix well so that the egg does not cook and form lumps. 

3. After the mixture thickens to a pudding consistency, remove the saucepan from heat and let cool. After the mixture is mostly cool, add in the heavy cream and mix well. Let completely cool.

4. In a wine glass, pour in some of the pudding. Next, break the tea biscuits and walnuts into small pieces (easiest with a food processor), and sprinkle a thick layer on top of the pudding layer. Layer the strawberries and bananas and repeat. Once the pudding reaches the top of the glass, finish with the biscuit and walnut mixture.