Smoke Queen Banana Pudding

There’s nothing extraordinary about my banana pudding recipe except for the fact that it’s made from scratch with simple ingredients. A lot of recipes online call for instant vanilla pudding or scratch-made pudding, but the pastry chef in me has to make it a tad bit fancier. Instead of a vanilla pudding base, I like to use pastry cream as my base, followed up with folding it with heavy whipped cream to give it a much lighter and creamier texture. In the pastry world, we call this dip