Recipe: Perfect Banana Pudding Cupcakes

Banana Pudding Cupcakes. This is a great recipe that tastes very similar to a traditional southern style banana pudding in cupcake form. These incredible Banana Pudding Cupcakes are a fun family baking project and the kiddos can help, too. Tender baked vanilla cupcakes are filled with a super simple banana cream filling and chunks of bananas then topped with whipped cream and a sprinkle of crushed vanilla wafers.

Garnish each cupcake with a banana slice, a Nilla wafter, and Nilla wafer crumbles. Banana Pudding is a favorite treat of many. Cupcakes are a favorite treat of many. You can have Banana Pudding Cupcakes using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Banana Pudding Cupcakes

1. Prepare of cake.
2. Prepare 1 box of yellow cake mix.
3. It's 3 of eggs.
4. Prepare 2 tbsp of Banana extract.
5. Prepare 1 cup of milk.
6. It's 1/3 cup of warm water.
7. Prepare 1/2 cup of oil.
8. It's 1 box of instant banana pudding 5.1oz.
9. It's of pudding.
10. Prepare 1 box of instant pudding as directed.
11. Prepare 1 of chopped banana.
12. You need 1 tbsp of Banana extract.
13. It's 1 of cool whip topping.
14. You need 1 of sliced banana.
15. Prepare 1 of vanilla wafers.

Put them together and you have banana pudding cupcakes. It sounds crazy but it's true. She loves banana pudding more than anything and since I already have an amazing recipe for it on the blog- I thought baking it into a cupcake would be the next best thing! These beauties start with a dense and vanilla cake (with a vanilla wafer baked in,) and then are filled with a generous portion of banana pudding.

Banana Pudding Cupcakes instructions

1. start by heating oven to 350. add all ingredients together add to paperlined cupcake tin bake as direct.let cool completely.
2. make pudding as directed , adding chopped banana & extract set in fridge till needed.
3. cut round hole in middle up cupcake fill with pudding mixture. top with cool whip, crushed wafers & fresh banana slices and whole wafer.Enjoy.

These Banana Pudding Cupcakes are the cupcake version of banana pudding with a creamy pudding center, whipped topping and crushed vanilla wafers. If you grew up in a southern household, chances are banana pudding was one of the desserts most likely to be served whenever there was a gathering of family or friends. A french vanilla flavored cake with banana cream pudding mixed into the batter along with chunks of fresh bananas and crushed Nilla Wafers. No need to get fancy with the frosting, simply top with cool with and Nilla Wafers for all the comforting flavors of banana pudding in a cupcake form. These cupcakes taste just like an old-fashioned banana pudding dessert made from scratch.