Banana Pudding Poke Cake

5 from 1 vote

Banana pudding poke cake easily dresses up boxed cake mix and instant pudding for a dessert banana fans will love! Yellow cake is stuffed with columns of rich banana pudding and finished off with fluffy whipped topping and Nilla wafers.

Prep Time15

Cook Time30

Chill Time2

Total Time2 45

Course: Cake, Dessert

Cuisine: American, Southern

Servings:

Calories: 295kcal

Author: Meaghan - The Quicker Kitchen

Ingredients

1 15.25 oz box yellow cake mix
1 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
8 ounces cream cheese softened
1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 12 oz tubs frozen whipped topping
1 5 oz box instant banana pudding
2 cups milk
vanilla wafers for garnish
sliced bananas for garnish

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Instructions

Add the cake mix, water, oil, and eggs to a large mixing bowl. Mix together until evenly combined. Pour the cake mix into a 9x13" dish sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
1 15.25 oz box yellow cake mix, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 3 large eggs
Bake at 350° for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center. Set aside and let cool completely.
Using the end of a wooden spoon, poke holes evenly out over the cake. Make sure the holes are deep.
Add the cream cheese and condensed milk to a mixing bowl, and using a hand mixer whip them together until evenly combined. Set aside.
8 ounces cream cheese, 1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
To another bowl add the pudding mix and milk, stirring them together until evenly combined. Add half the whipped cream to the mixture, again stirring until evenly combined.
2 12 oz tubs frozen whipped topping, 1 5 oz box instant banana pudding, 2 cups milk
Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding, and stir until evenly combined.
Add the pudding mixture to the cake in dollops, then spread in a thick even layer but so that it also fills up the holes.
Spread the remaining whipped cream evenly out over top of the cake.
Cover the dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Garnish with lightly crushed vanilla wafers and banana slices- if desired, then serve and enjoy!
vanilla wafers, sliced bananas

Notes

Make sure you poke the holes deep enough into the cake that the pudding mixture can seep all the way in.
Be sure you are using instant pudding and not the kind you need to cook on the stove top.
Let the cake cool completely before you make the filling. If the cake is warm, the filling will melt and be less than appealing in the cake.

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