This recipe is great and really easy! I took the suggestions of other reviewers and mixed vanilla and banana cream pudding mixes. I did make a mistake and failed to completely beat the cream cheese before adding the other ingredients, so there were little lumps of cream cheese throughout the pudding. It still tasted really good and my guests did not seem to notice, but next time I will read the recipe more carefully! I have made several attempts at cooked banana pudding recipes over the years that completely FLOPPED (banana soup, anyone?) but this recipe is so easy and tastes wonderful and rich! It was a big hit at our New Year's Eve dessert & coffee party.

Reviewed On: Jan. 1, 2009

Great dressing! It keeps cut pears or apples or bananas from turning brown. However, it wasn't great after storage, especially with the bananas in it, so I would suggest only cutting the amount of fruit you think you will need and then you can save any leftover dressing in the fridge for another day and add it to some more freshly cut fruit.

Reviewed On: Dec. 29, 2008

This brought back memories for the grandparents! We loved it. My 6-year-old daughter even liked to drink it cold because she doesn't like hot drinks. But everyone else drank it hot. It was great either way. I don't ever have cheesecloth lying around, but I at least should have strained the cloves out after preparing the recipe because some of them sank after they got saturated and then it is a lot harder to fish them out.

Reviewed On: Dec. 29, 2008