I made mine with only one layer of bananas over the pastry cream layer and I decided they definitely needed a second one underneath (after I’d already piped mine out. Really I just under-estimated how much pastry cream I actually had I wanted another layer but I was way off) so your pastry cream layer may look just a little bit thicker than mine since the bananas on bottom will take up some of that space and they may end up a little taller in the end too, but not by much. I used homemade salted caramel sauce which I highly recommend and I’ve linked to the recipe for that in the recipe below. Of course you can use your favorite store bought salted caramel sauce if you don’t have time to make it. If you wanted to do a super cheater version here of this same idea you could do all the short cuts, it obviously just won’t be as good.
You could buy store bought graham cracker crusts and crumble them up then you could do 2 smaller boxes vanilla pudding mix (substituting some cream for milk and using a little less than listed), store bought caramel and store bought whipped cream. I don’t know why I’m even saying that to you because these are out of this world amazing and all of the store bought ingredients will never come close to measuring up. I guess I know there are many people that love the easiest route even if it means sacrificing flavor. So if that’s your thang that’s your thang and I don’t judge. I know we don’t all have hours to spend in the kitchen – but for Easter I hope you all have some extra time to make something special like so. Holidays are meant for going all out, right? Gimme ten years and 80 parties later, maybe I won’t be saying that anymore :).
