Banana Pudding Poke Cake

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 16
Yield: 16 servings

Description

This delicious banana pudding poke cake is an easy, crowd-pleasing dessert. Top with crushed vanilla wafers and sliced bananas.

Ingredients

1 (18 1/4 ounce) box yellow cake mix (such as Duncan Hines®)
1 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
2 cups cold milk
2 (3 1/2 ounce) packages instant banana pudding mix
1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping (such as Cool Whip®), thawed
1 cup vanilla wafer crumbs (such as Nilla®), or to taste

Directions

1 Gather all ingredients. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking dish.
2 Whisk cake mix, water, vegetable oil, and eggs together in a bowl until smooth; pour into the prepared baking dish.
3 Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 23 to 28 minutes.
4 Whisk cold milk and pudding mix together in a bowl until pudding is soft and thickened, about 2 minutes.
5 Poke holes into the cake using the handle of a clean wooden spoon. Pour pudding over cake, spreading evenly.
6 Spread whipped topping over pudding layer and sprinkle vanilla wafers over whipped topping.