This one I made just because one of my favorite things is a
pb and banana sandwich so I thought, why not try it as a cake? So this is my version, I’m sure you might
find a better way of doing this so please do so, I won’t be offended at
all! But I can honestly say that this
is so good and my family is asking for it again! J You might prefer to make yours from scratch –
I went for the easier and faster way.
Ingredients for cake:
1 yellow cake mix
½ cup of peanut butter
(whatever ingredients the cake mix calls for)
Ingredients for Icing:
1 small box of instant vanilla pudding
1 small bowl of cool whip – 8 ounces
1 ripe banana
1 regular banana (for topping)
Instructions for cake:
Follow instructions on the box, add a little liquids to compensate for the
peanut butter (if it calls for 1 cup of water add 1 1/8th cup and if
it calls for 1/3 cup of oil – I measured just a little over the 1/3rd
mark). Bake as directed until fork
comes out clean or it springs back, whatever method you use, don’t over
bake. Run a knife around the edges and
let it completely cool in pan on cooling rack. Turn out on a
clean towel and cut in half long ways so you will have 2 layers. Handle gently and put the bottom layer back
into your pan or onto a serving tray.
Instructions for Icing:
Mix the pudding with 1 ½ cups of cold milk and mix
according to directions – you need less milk because you want it thicker.
Fold pudding into 2 cups of the cool whip until well
blended. Put ½ of the pudding/cool whip
mix in another bowl.
In a blender or food processor slice the ripe banana and
blend it till it’s fairly smooth, mix this in with ½ of the pudding mix. This is what you will use as filling between
the 2 layers of cake.
Once you have the filling on the bottom layer then carefully add
the top layer and use the rest of the pudding mix (without banana) to icing the
top of the cake. Add a couple of slices
of banana to the top of each piece before you serve (optional) ENJOY!
Variations: 1. You can do this cake in reverse, add the mashed banana to the cake mix, if you do that add 2 bananas instead of one. And make the icing the same only add peanut butter to it in place of the banana. 2. You can also make this a poke cake instead of cutting the cake in half. 3.
Or you cna use 2 round cake pans instead of using a sheet pan.
