Amish Graham Cracker Pudding Recipe

Amish graham cracker pudding is a simple, creamy homemade pudding that's thickened with graham cracker crumbs, which give it its signature flavor.

This old-fashioned graham cracker pudding is yummy whether served warm or cold. You can serve it as a snack or a light dessert. Or do what my Amish mom did, and serve it with banana slices for a light meal. (I especially love it topped with whipped cream and lots of extra graham cracker crumbs!)

How to Make Graham Cracker Pudding Dessert

This Honeymaid graham cracker pudding dessert is one of the easiest dessert recipes you will ever find. It's made with only a few basic ingredients and comes together very quickly.

1. Pour 3 cups of milk into a heavy-bottom saucepan and sprinkle the sugar over the top. (Do Not Stir! It won't burn if you don't stir it.)
2. Cook the milk and sugar mixture over medium heat until it begins to boil.
3. While the milk is heating, beat the egg in a separate bowl. Then add 1 cup of milk and salt to the beaten egg, and whisk together.
4. Once the milk in the saucepan starts to boil and rise, slowly pour the egg mixture into the hot milk while whisking continuously.
5. Add the graham cracker crumbs to the milk mixture and continue whisking. Bring it back to a light boil and cook until slightly thickened.
6. Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
7. Place a piece of plastic wrap directly on top of the pudding to prevent a skin from forming. Let it cool.
8. Serve the pudding warm or cold, topped with whipped cream and extra graham cracker crumbs. Optionally, you can add banana slices as well.

Saturday Night Suppers: Graham Cracker Pudding & Cold Bread Soup

On Saturdays, in our home, we always had a big cooked meal for lunch (what we called dinner), then we had a light supper.

Two dishes that I remember frequently having on Saturday evenings are graham cracker pudding and cold bread soup.

My mom cooked a big pot of this cracker pudding for our supper, and we ate the warm pudding with banana slices. We all loved it and filled up on warm graham cracker pudding.

Cold bread soup was another Saturday night dish that I loved. I honestly have not eaten it in years, so I'm not sure how I would feel about it now. But I loved it as a kid.

This was simply a bowl of cold milk with sugar and vanilla mixed in, then just before serving my mom added a bunch of bread cubes and banana or strawberry slices. So yes, it was soggy bread soup, and that's what we had for our supper. (I've seen some recipes with coffee instead of milk - that sounds disgusting to me.)

Amish Food

Some people think that the Amish eat some pretty strange dishes. And I will admit that a few of their recipes don't sound that great. (Check out this post about Amish food)

I grew up eating foods that my kids think are disgusting. And my sister-in-law declares that they turn anything into soup.

But think about it for a minute...

Amish ladies cook three meals a day, pretty much every day of the week. And most of these meals are made from scratch. They don't just heat a frozen pizza or chicken nuggets, etc. So they probably run out of ideas on quick meals to make.