Description
Banana Split Cake is a creamy no-bake dessert with a buttery graham cracker crust, cream cheese filling, bananas, pineapple, whipped topping, peanuts, cherries, and optional hot fudge.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 cup butter, for crust
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup butter, softened, for filling
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
- 20 ounces crushed pineapple, drained with juice reserved
- 4 bananas, sliced
- 8 ounces Cool Whip, thawed
- 1 1/2 cups finely chopped peanuts
- 12 maraschino cherries, rinsed and dried
- Hot fudge sauce, optional
Instructions
- Melt 1/2 cup butter with granulated sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves.
- Remove from heat, stir in graham cracker crumbs, and press firmly into the bottom of a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Beat softened cream cheese, 1/2 cup softened butter, confectioners’ sugar, and sea salt for about 2 minutes until fluffy.
- Spread the cream cheese mixture evenly over the graham cracker crust.
- Drain crushed pineapple well, reserving the juice in a small bowl.
- Slice bananas and place the slices in the reserved pineapple juice to help prevent browning.
- Remove bananas from the juice, discard the liquid, and arrange banana slices over the cream cheese layer.
- Spread drained crushed pineapple evenly over the bananas.
- Spread Cool Whip evenly over the pineapple.
- Sprinkle chopped peanuts over the whipped topping.
- Place one cherry where each slice will be cut.
- Drizzle with hot fudge sauce, if using.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before slicing into 12 squares and serving cold.
Notes
- Use about 14 full-size graham crackers to make 2 cups of crumbs.
- Coating the bananas in pineapple juice helps slow browning.
- Keep the cake refrigerated between servings.
- For clean slices, wipe the knife between cuts.
- Do not freeze this dessert because the fruit and whipped topping can turn watery.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No-Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 square
- Calories: 828
- Sugar: 42
- Sodium: 327
- Fat: 58
- Saturated Fat: 19
- Unsaturated Fat: 34
- Trans Fat: 1
- Carbohydrates: 67
- Fiber: 9
- Protein: 21
- Cholesterol: 63