Okay so this a recipe that I love to make. I believe it is from Paula
Dean from the cooking network, but I don't quite remember. lol This is
good for large gatherings of people (20-30). To make less, just halve
the ingredients. Anyways...

Ingredients:
2 bunches of bananas
3 packages of Pepperidge Farm Chessmen Cookies
2 cans of Eagle Brand Condensed Milk
2 packages of Jello French Vanilla INSTANT pudding (it has to be
instant!)
1 large container of Cool Whip (Original or Cool Whip Lite)
2 cups of 2% milk
1 block of Philadelphia cream cheese

Okay the first thing you want to do is line a deep dish pan with the
cookies. For the bottom layer, just place the cookies in faced up. But
along the sides, make sure the shortbread part is turned in, so the
chessmen design shows through the outside of the container (I hope that
makes sense, if it doesn't contact me!). Then you want to get 2 large
mixing bowls, an electric mixer, and a large wooden spoon.

Take the 2% milk, the cream cheese and the instant pudding mix and pour
them in one of the bowls. Take the electric mixer, and then blend the
ingredients until the mixture thickens.

Next, take the eagle brand and the cool whip and put them into the other
bowl. Take the large wooden spoon, and fold the eagle brand into the
cool whip until the mixture becomes a pale tan color. The next thing you
want to do is pour the contents of one bowl into the other and using the
large wooden spoon, mix the ingredients together.

Next, thinly slice the bananas and take half of them and put them into
the deep dish pan. Pour half of the contents from the bowl over the
bananas, then take the remainder of the bananas, and put them into the
pan. Then, take the remainder of the mixed contents and pour it over the
bananas.

Finally, what you want to do is take some more cookies and place them
atop the pudding. Make sure that the cookies are in lines and that the
chessmen decoration is facing upwards. There should be about 4-5 lines
up and down and 5-6 lines across (depending on the size of the pan).
Place in the fridge for half an hour and serve the dessert chilled.

If there are extra cookies, serve with cookies. I like to do this bc
when the pudding becomes congeeled (or however that word is spelled) the
cookies become soft.

hey there La_Esperanza

yes mam that is correct it is a Paula Dean recipe. Oh man i have tried
this before maybe about a year or so ago. it is very very delicious.

I make this recipe for family get together type things . Its also good
if you replace the bananas w/pineapple .

Ive also made a variation w/chocolate pudding and chessman butterscotch
cookies and crushed heath bars instead of fruit .

yummmmmmmmmmm... sounds good to me

OMG this sounds so good...will have to make it very soon