Question from CJStewart
I have a recipe for Amish Friendship Bread that I have successfully reduced the sugar in, but it calls for a large box of instant vanilla pudding (which makes me question that it originated as an Amish recipe…). What would you suggest using instead of a large box of instant pudding. Even my 4-year-old son says “Mommy, we can’t buy that…it has artificial flavorings!
Debra’s Answer
Vanilla pudding mix is basically cornstarch, sugar, and artificial flavorings and coloring.
So to replace it in a recipe, you need cornstarch and sweetener and vanilla flavor.
A standard vanilla pudding recipe contains:
So thats 1 part cornstarch to 2 parts sugar. Find out how the amount of mix is in one package of dry vanilla pudding mix and mix that amount of cornstarch and sweetener with a 2:1 ratio. Then try to estimate the amount of vanilla to add.
This should work.
