Banana Pudding Cupcakes with Nilla Wafers and Whipped Cream Frosting

Name: Banana Pudding Cupcakes with Nilla Wafers and Whipped Cream Frosting
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Nilla Wafers; 3 tablespoons Sugar; 3 tablespoons Butter; Pillsbury White Cake Mix; 1/2 cup Oil; 1 cup Milk; 3 eggs; 4.6 oz. Package of Banana Pudding Mix; The Best Whipped Cream Frosting; Decorating Bags; Wilton 2D Decorating Tip

posted by Laurie on May 13, 2019 (updated 2/5/20) // 3 Comments

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We’ve taken a classic dessert and transformed it into a delicious cupcake. These Banana Pudding Cupcakes with Nilla Wafers and Whipped Cream Frosting are so yummy and so easy to make!

Banana pudding + Nilla Wafers + Whipped Cream … that’s what I think of when someone says Banana Pudding. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized that the dessert Mom used to make my sister and I was really a kind of a Banana Trifle. Sometimes it is better not to know things. So in honor of this classic banana treat we have gone into the Two Sisters Test Kitchen to do a little tweaking and we have come up with these delicious new Banana Pudding Cupcakes with Nilla Wafers and Whipped Cream Frosting. Banana Pudding – Check! Nilla Wafers – Check! Whipped Cream – Check! We’ve got it all in one tasty cupcake. Enjoy!

The “secret” ingredient for our Banana Pudding Cupcakes is a yummy and buttery, Nilla Wafer layer in the cupcake so grab your box of Nilla Wafers and let’s get baking.

Put the Nilla Wafers in a large plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin. We didn’t crush them in a food processor because you don’t want the cookies to be too finely crumbled. Melt the butter in the microwave and then add the butter and the sugar into the bag. Mix thoroughly until the Nilla Wafers crumbs are fully coated with the melted butter.

Add a heaping tablespoon of the Nilla Wafer mixture to each cupcake liner.

Use a spoon or your fingers to firmly press down the Nilla Wafer mixture into the bottom of the cupcake liner. You want the crust to take up no more than 1/4 of the cupcake liner.

The cake layer of our Banana Pudding Cupcakes was made with this Pillsbury Moist Supreme White Cake mix and a box of Banana Creme Pudding mix. You can use your favorite cake mix, just make the batter according to the instructions on the back of the box and then add in the pudding mix.

Fill the cupcake liner with the cake batter until it is 3/4 full (as shown above.) Bake the cupcakes as you normally would, 15-20 minutes in a 350 degree oven.

We topped our Banana Pudding Cupcakes with our super delicious Best Whipped Cream Frosting. It tastes just like whipped cream but has the consistency of frosting. This light and not too sweet frosting is perfect for these cupcakes. You can find the recipe and detailed instructions for making this frosting right here.

Frost the cupcakes as you normally would and store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator. The cupcakes taste best at room temperature so we suggest that you take them out of the refrigerator a couple of hours before you serve them.

These Banana Pudding Cupcakes are so very good. The buttery Nilla Wafer bottom is such a great addition to the yummy banana cupcake. And the light and delicious Whipped Cream frosting is the perfect topping for this unique cupcake.