Instant Pudding Hacks
If you google cake mix hacks, you’ll discover pages of results. I’ve written about cake mix hacks before too. I was looking for instant pudding hacks and they aren’t as easy to find without some digging. I buy instant pudding when it’s on sale or I have a coupon. However, I rarely just use the boxes to make pudding. Although that is a perfectly acceptable and expected way to use them, I tend to use them in recipes. I love making cream bars with their cheesecake like filling and shortbread cookie crust. More recently, I used two flavours of instant pudding to create a Berry Cheesecake Trifle as an Easter dessert.
I asked some of my blogger friends what they like to do with instant pudding. I was blown away by the response! I have so many amazing instant pudding hacks to share with you today.
Quite the list right? You’ll never run out of ways to use up all those boxes of instant pudding sitting in your pantry. The hard part will be picking one to try first.
How do you use instant pudding? Do you follow the package directions or do you do something different?
Instant Pudding Hacks
Instant pudding has been a popular ingredient in dessert recipes for decades. After you check this list out, you'll definitely be able to see why!
Pistachio Cream Bars
Made with a shortbread cookie base and filling that is a cross between a pudding and cheesecake. This vibrantly coloured dessert is a great make-ahead dish for entertaining. The crowd pleasing flavour of pistachio will be a winner!
Peanut Butter Pie
Layers of sweet deliciousness! The bottom layer is smooth, sweet peanut butter crumbs followed by a vanilla pudding. The pie is finished off with another layer of peanut butter crumbs for an out of this world dessert.
Strawberry Cream Pie
Tastes like a dream! This easy summer pie is creamy, sweet and refreshing.
No Bake Lemon Blueberry Dessert
How about let’s NOT turn the oven on today with this No Bake Lemon Blueberry Dessert. Tart lemon meets sweet blueberry with added goodness of cream cheese and a graham cracker crust.
Banana Pudding Poke Cake
A delicious doctored cake mix recipe for all occasions! This Banana Pudding Poke Cake is always a huge hit.
Lemon Raspberry Napoleons
Freshly made whipped cream is tucked in-between tasty lemon pudding and fresh raspberries nestled in between flaky puff pastry. Each Raspberry Lemon Napoleon pastry is dusted with powdered sugar for a deliciously easy bakery quality treat at home.
Banana Pudding Dip
Banana pudding turned into a dip. This banana pudding dip is an easy, make ahead dessert recipe for your next pot luck or party.
Berry Vanilla Pudding Pound Cake Trifle
This Berry Vanilla Pudding Pound Cake Trifle is filled with creamy, whipped vanilla pudding, buttery pound cake chunks, and fresh blueberries and raspberries. It’s layered together to create an easy summer treat that’s ready in no time!
The Best Banana Pudding Cheesecake Recipe
Great combination of cheesecake and banana pudding, what could be better? This banana pudding cheesecake recipe is one of our family favorites!
Easy Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake
Easy triple chocolate Bundt cake made with boxed cake and pudding mixes, chocolate chips and sour cream. Fudgy, moist and rich dark chocolate cake for birthdays, potlucks and Valentine’s Day.
Pistachio Icebox Cake
An easy no-bake pistachio pudding dessert recipe made with lush layers of pistachio pudding, whipped topping, graham crackers, and chopped nuts.
Slow Cooker Chocolate Lava Cake
This Slow Cooker Chocolate Lava Cake is the perfect cool weather dessert. This simple to make dessert goes great with ice cream, fresh fruit or caramel.
Pumpkin Yum Yum Dessert
This easy-to-make layered dessert has creamy pumpkin deliciousness sandwiched between two layers of fluffy sweetened cream cheese, all sitting atop a cinnamon and pecan studded crust. And it's indeed totally yummy, just as its fun name suggests!
No Bake Banana Pudding Cream Pie
This easy No Bake Banana Pudding Cream Pie recipe is super easy to make and requires no baking! Yay! Yet it still has that creamy banana cream filling over the crunchy graham cracker crust and vanilla wafers.
Sour cream pudding pound cake: Retro recipe from 1977
Turn a regular cake mix into a really rich and moist sour cream pudding pound cake with some lemon instant pudding mix. Here’s the real retro recipe from the '70s!
Easy Pumpkin Pudding
This Easy Pumpkin Pudding is the perfect way to celebrate fall with your kids! It is easy to prepare, super creamy and full of all your favorite fall spices. What isn’t to love about this recipe?
Mom's Lemon Lush
This Lemon Lush recipe is something my mom has been making for over 30 years because it’s THAT GOOD! It serves 12 and costs $10.42 to make. That’s just 87¢ per serving!
Chocolate Eclair Icebox Cake
Chocolate Eclair Icebox Cake is a no-bake chocolate graham cracker cake with vanilla pudding, whipped topping, and super easy, fudge frosting. This icebox cake recipe is fun for all ages to make and the perfect no bake dessert for any food event!
Vanilla Bundt Cake
Vanilla Bundt Cake is easy to make with just 4 ingredients. Perfect with a dusting of confectioner’s sugar or topped with icing, whipped cream or berries.
Delicious Chocolate Trifle
This easy Chocolate Trifle recipe is rich and decadent with layers of fudgy brownie, chocolate pudding, and whipped cream. It’s a chocolate lovers dream and it’s perfect to feed a crowd!
Strawberries and Cream Tart
A simple spring dessert with an easygoing elegance. This is a go-to recipe when you've got last minute guests, or just want to amp up the glam factor on a spring night. (You won't believe how simple the filling is!!)
Banana Cheesecake Dessert
This Banana Cheesecake Dessert has layers of cheesecake, banana cream pudding and cool whip on a graham cracker crust and is topped with banana slices!
German Bee Sting Cake
German Bee Sting Cake is a yeasted cake with a beautiful texture, fantastic honey flavor (hence the name), a beautifully caramelized almond topping, not to mention a thick, creamy vanilla filling.
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man this is an amazing idea! Thank you!
That’s a lot of things to do with instant pudding! Brilliant!
I want to try the White Chocolate and Strawberry Pudding Pops! YUMMY!
Thanks for sharing, definitely going to have to try some of these out!
Nice like to try this
Fantastic idea, thanks!
WOW, what an awesome variety of choices, definitely need to check them out, thx!
thanks for sharing the No Bake Oreo Dessert looks easy and sounds good
That is a whole lot of pudding recipes!! thanks for sharing!!
With instant pudding and jello I just follow the instructions, I don’t do anything different. I would love to try the Chocolate Pudding Trifle. Thank you for sharing this awesome list of recipes.
I am definitely trying some of these, especially the peanut butter parfait. Who knew pudding was so versatile.