Don't turn on your oven...
I've been to church dinners with this one where a whole mess of us were supposed to bring Bananna pudding. Mine is always gone, despite bringing a great vat of it. Tried and proven!
You'll need one can of eagle brand milk (or sweetened, condensed milk)
One regular container of Whipped cream.
One package of instant vanilla pudding mix (I use jello, of course)
Nilla wafers (I use a box and a half. I highly recommend using 1 box regular and half box of new tiny wafers. For those of you who don't get Nilla wafers, they're a small sweet bread cookie-like thing. They're similar to a sugar cookie, I suppose.)
Bananas
Take your wafers and line a big gently-sloping bowl with them, covering the bottom. I stack them as high as I can upon one another up the sides. Make the vanilla pudding according to directions. Mix into it the whipped cream and milk. Now put a layer of this into the bowl. Now a layer of bananas. Now a layer of cookies. on top of the bananas. Repeat until your mix is gone. I usually place a dollop of cream in the middle of the bowl on the top then place three small cookes decoratively. (I dip them in the pudding and then place them standing almost upright in the whipped cream in a circle as if they were following each other. The dip line runs up and down.) I make sure there are cookies peeking out of the pudding along the edges. Then I crush some of the left over cookies and sprinkle on the top. Enjoy, garnished or not!