Best Banana Pudding No Bake Cheesecake

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Banana Pudding No Bake Cheesecake
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Banana Pudding No Bake Cheesecake

Recipe by SMDifficulty: Easy
Servings

12

servings
Prep time

3

hours 
Cooking timeminutes

This cheesecake is layered with the best things! Vanilla wafers, bananas, pudding, whipped cream-cheese and cool whip! Made it twice this month and both times people were asking for more.

Ingredients

  • Crust layer:

  • * 1 box vanilla wafers, crushed, divided
    * 1 stick unsalted butter, melted

  • Cheesecake layer:

  • * 2, 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
    * 1/3 cup sugar
    * 3 tbsp heavy cream
    * 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

  • Pudding layer:

  • * 1, 3.4 oz. box Banana Cream or Vanilla Instant Pudding mix
    * 1 cup cold milk + 2-3 tbsp

  • Banana layer:

  • * 4 bananas, sliced

  • Topping layer:

  • * 8 oz. Cool whip, defrosted
    * 1/8 cup vanilla wafers, crushed divided from the crust layer
    * Optional, Whip-cream for decoration

Directions

  • Slice 4 small bananas and set aside. Defrost cool whip to room temp if in freezer. Crush vanilla wafers in a blender. Put aside 1/8 cup of crushed wafers. With remaining crushed wafers add melted butter and combine. Crust will be thick and buttery. Press crust down on the bottom of a lightly greased 9” springform pan. Put in fridge.
  • While crust is in fridge beat cream cheese using a hand held or stand mixer till soft. Add sugar, heavy cream and vanilla extract, beat till smooth. Set aside
  • Make pudding mix, do not follow box instructions. Combine pudding mix and 1 cup of cold milk. We add an additional 2-3 tbsp of cold milk depending on consistency. Pudding will be thicker but smooth.
  • Take crust out of fridge and add cream cheese layer on top of the crust. Spreading with a spatula. Add pudding layer and smooth out. Add sliced bananas. Add cool whip layer. Sprinkle the remaining crushed vanilla wafers on top. Put in fridge to set in 2-3 hrs. We take ours out at about 2.5 hrs. Remove from fridge and decorate with whip cream. Enjoy!