Banana Pudding Icebox Cake. This Banana Pudding Icebox Cake is the perfect no-bake dessert for summer. A thicker, more fancy-looking version of banana pudding that tastes How to Make Banana Pudding Icebox Cake. To put the layers together, you'll make the banana and vanilla filling separately, though they have similar.
And since there are tons of bananas in the cake, it really doesn't matter!
Banana pudding gets icebox cake-ified, becoming a no-bake, no-cook dessert to keep on hand all summer long.
Strawberries add brightness to this fun take on banana pudding.
You can cook Banana Pudding Icebox Cake using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Banana Pudding Icebox Cake
- You need 11 oz of box vanilla wafers.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of cold milk.
- It's 1 (3.4 oz) of vanilla instant pudding mix.
- You need 5 of large bananas thinly sliced.
- Prepare 8 oz of cool whip.
Instead of the usual vanilla wafers, use graham crackers, which make neater slices. An instant hit with your family and guests, this recipe makes delicious use of the fresh strawberries you pick up at the local farmers' market. Last week I made a Tiramisu Cake for my brother and then came up with this Chocolate Banana Pudding Icebox Cake for my niece. Icebox cakes are by no means newfangled but most of the versions out there are tailored to kiddie tastes and, well, they tend to look a little haphazard.
Banana Pudding Icebox Cake step by step
- Make pudding according to box.
- Arrange a layer of wafers on bottom of 8" springform pan, dipping each wafer in milk..
- Put 1/3 of pudding on top of wafers..
- Arrange a layer of bananas over pudding..
- Top with 1/3 of cool whip.
- Repeat layers 2 more times.
- Cover with plastic and freeze until hard about 4 hours.
- Top with cool whip and wafers if desired.
For the banana filling: In another large bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, milk, and banana pudding mix until smooth. Gently fold in the remaining whipped cream until combined. Next I let the pudding set up. When it's ready pull out your defrosted Cool Whip or make whip cream. Have a box of Vanilla Wafers handy!