Banana Bliss began with a craving for comfort and a kitchen full of imperfect banana pudding experiments. Our founder, Emily Khalil, just wanted to recreate her grandma’s favorite dessert. Along the way, she gathered a team of friends—some she met by chance, others through pudding debates, Instagram memes, and even handwritten letters.
Now, we’re a small crew who believe in good food, good laughs, and the magic of sharing simple, nostalgic desserts. Here you’ll find real recipes, real stories, and sometimes real messes. We’re not perfect—but our banana pudding is always made with love.
Welcome to the table. Grab a spoon and join us.
Meet Our Team
Emily Khalil
Founder
I’m Emily Khalil, the founder behind Banana Bliss, and honestly, if you’d told me five years ago that I’d end up surrounded by bananas (and pudding), I would have laughed. But here we are.
I remember the first banana pudding I ever made—it was a total mess. The pudding was too runny, the bananas looked sad, and my best friend told me it tasted “interesting.” But for some reason, I couldn’t let it go. Maybe it was nostalgia, or maybe just stubbornness, but I tried again. And again. Somewhere along the line, banana pudding became my thing.
Banana Bliss didn’t start as a business—it started as a challenge to make my grandma’s recipe taste like childhood. I posted a picture online and, to my shock, people wanted to know how I did it. I realized I wasn’t alone in craving that creamy, layered comfort.
But let me introduce the real magic behind Banana Bliss—my team. None of us set out to become banana pudding specialists, but each of us found a reason to love it:
Madison Carter
Recipe Development Manager
Madison and I met in a tiny café where we both ordered banana pudding for breakfast (don’t judge). She asked for extra vanilla wafers; I asked for extra bananas. We debated ratios for half an hour. It only made sense she’d be the one perfecting every recipe on this site.
James Daniels
Senior Recipe Developer
James joined after he sent me a five-paragraph DM correcting my custard technique. At first, I thought he was just being picky, but it turns out, he’s a dessert perfectionist. His first batch of banana pudding? He brought it in a mason jar and said, “It could be creamier, right?” He was right.
Ashley Martinez
Social Media & Community Manager
Ashley was a friend-of-a-friend who tagged me in every banana pudding meme. She started running our socials as a joke, but it turned out she had a knack for building a real, pudding-obsessed community. If you’ve ever gotten a reply in our comments that made you smile—it was probably her.
Ethan Brooks
Photographer
Ethan and I argued for a week about whether banana pudding looks better in a bowl or a jar. He’s the reason our photos actually make you crave dessert, instead of wondering what went wrong in the kitchen. He’s also responsible for at least half our kitchen messes.
Olivia Ellis
Contributor
Olivia once sent me a handwritten letter (yes, really!) with her grandmother’s secret banana pudding trick. I had to invite her in. She now writes for us and tests every recipe in her own tiny kitchen.
We’re just a bunch of regular people who fell in love with the comfort of banana pudding. If you’re here, you probably feel the same. Thanks for stopping by—grab a spoon and stay a while!