I previously blogged about my easy southern style banana pudding recipe.  It’s always a hit with the members of our household.  One day, while I was preparing food for a picnic.  I realized that banana pudding would look great in a mason jar.  I already knew from the strawberry shortcake trifle that I put together in a jar that mason jar desserts make great grab and go items to throw in a cooler for a picnic lunch.  I immediately went to work.

First, some vanilla wafers were placed into the jar. 

These were topped with some sliced bananas.

The bananas were topped with some of the pudding mixture.

This was repeated with cookies on top of the pudding.

Bananas on top of the cookies.

Finally more pudding. 

One more layer of all three until the jar was filled. 

The top of the jar was finished off with some vanilla wafer crumbs.

The jars were placed into the refrigerator overnight to allow the flavors to combine and the cookies to soften.  They were delicious.  I’m not re-posting the recipe.  It can be found at the earlier post, here.

I think these are a great idea to make ahead for a barbecue.  I used wide mouth pint jars because I still haven’t gotten any 8 ounce jars, but I’m really in love with these desserts in a jar.

Let us know what you think.  Thanks for visiting Patty Cake’s Pantry.