This post may contain banana bread pudding links. If you make a purchase, we may make a small commission. A Bundt banana bread on a white serving platter and individual slices on two plates.
This banana bread with pudding mix from Chrissy Teigen received endless accolades from our testers. The addition of vanilla pudding mix, dark chocolate, unsweetened coconut, and plenty of bananas. The secret to Chrissy Teigen’s banana bread Bundt cake? Perfecting this single banana bread Bundt cake recipe took me nearly a year.
That’s why I needed so many damn bananas. It was a fine, yummy banana bread. But something wasn’t SPECIAL about it. I tried a million different things. Using banana pudding mix made it taste fake. Toasting the top with salty coconut made it a little too coconutty. Nuts were too controversial among my friends.
Milk chocolate blended in too much. It turned out that putting the coconut inside left it with a subtle hint of sweet coconut goodness, vanilla pudding gave it a fluffy, moist texture I could never have imagined, and dark chocolate gave it a . Can you toss nuts in this? Can you use a different chocolate? But I’m telling you—I did this every way humanly possible so you wouldn’t have to. The flavoring added to pudding mix can change the flavor of the bread and, as Chrissy says, make it taste fake. How can I ripen bananas quickly?