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By Justine

4.60 from 5 votes

Updated Sep 28, 2025

Published Sep 17, 2024

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Here are some easy pudding cake recipes to make at home! Using cake mix with pudding or mixed into homemade they are super moist and one of our favorite desserts! Start with our easy pumpkin pudding cake recipe during the Fall and then try others with fruit like bananas. Any time of year these taste fabulous!

Here are a bunch of easy pudding cake recipes for you to try! Have you ever incorporated pudding or pudding mix into a cake? The first time I tried it I couldn’t believe how moist it made it and the added flavor it brought to an already delicious dessert. We have made everything from pumpkin in the fall to banana in the summertime.

I am all about easy meal ideas and desserts. Any way to really amp up a traditional cake mix I love doing. It is quick and easy but makes it taste a bit more like homemade with this little addition.

Of course homemade cake is amazing. I have done that as well but most times I am in a rush and like to have this easy option. You should start with our cake mix banana pudding cake that is so moist and filled with not only banana flavor but chunks of banana pieces too, then move on to others…

A slice of pumpkin cake topped with two scoops of vanilla ice cream on a white plate.

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What Does Adding Pudding to Cake Mix Do?

Makes it SO SO moist! If you have these few ingredients at home you can pretty much make any flavor profile. You just need: cake mix, milk, eggs, oil, and a box of instant pudding. Match the flavor of the cake mix with your pudding and you will agree with me that it really takes it from good to amazing.

Like for our fall cake I used spice cake mix with vanilla pudding. It came out great, for our banana pudding cake I used yellow/white cake mix and banana pudding. Our egg nog cake is our latest creation and a perfect Christmas dessert to try. And then there is chocolate with our cake mix with pudding and sour cream too.

If you’re baking cake mix with pudding during the holidays you’ve got to try our egg nog pudding cake. With a little scoop of ice cream on top!

A close-up photo of a slice of eggnog pudding cake on a white square plate.

How do you add pudding to cake mix?

You just add it dry right out of the box usually unless directed otherwise. The milk will mix in with it when stirred and thicken just as if you made it in a bowl. Gives crazy moisture to our White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake and any other variety. Here are some more easy pudding cake recipes to choose from, butterscotch is on my list next weekend!

This butterscotch bundt cake using pudding inside and looks delish!
I’ve got to try this chocolate chunk rum cake with pudding inside this season!
This pistachio cake with pudding inside brings a new flavor to the mix too.
Hot fudge pudding cake can be made with devil’s food cake mix and milk…well, enough said!

If you want a NO bake, try this no bake cake recipe some time too. Ok so you can tweak it a bunch of different ways as you can see right?? I use cake mix always so I don’t have to measure out flour, sugar, baking powder etc…. This is what you will need to make the consistency just right;

Pudding Cake Ingredients

A box cake mix flavor of your choice
1 box instant pudding 3.4 oz., any flavor you choose
1.5 c milk or egg nog, or dairy free product like lactose free milk
2 eggs
1/4 c vegetable oil

You can make a layer for the top too with a second box!! We did this with our Banana snack Cake and it gives it just another wow. Or spread some peanut butter on Devil’s Food!

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I have made a variety of pudding cakes but typically use my 13×9″ baking pan, I have a glass one. Using a bundt pan is a great option too. I am on my way to make a chocolate pudding cake as we speak using that. It gives it a prettier look with really no more effort on your part. All you do is;

How to Make Pudding Cake with Instant Pudding

Use a mixer on low speed and mix ingredients together until smooth, it will be thick! Spray non stick spray inside your 13×9 inch baking dish and pour your cake batter in. Spread so it is the same thickness all the way across the pan. Put pan on middle rack into preheated oven at 350 degrees for 34 minutes (just until top is golden brown and toothpick comes out clean, do NOT over-bake).

Allow to cool almost completely inside the pan if you want pieces to come out very clean with straight edges. Serve with a dollop of whipped cream on top and enjoy.

How to Make a Pudding Cake using Cake Mix

I will say that using a bundt pan does make it a bit drier though overall, but have done it with our Duncan Hines lemon bundt cake. Since it browns on the bottom/top when you flip it over but both are good. Serving with frosting and some goodies like cookies on top like our oreo bundt cake is fun too.

If you do have leftovers you’ll want to store in a sealed container or wrap with plastic wrap and store in your fridge for up to 3 days. Cold is actually great but you could warm it up too in the microwave.

Recipes

Pineapple bundt poke cake
Gluten free raspberry vanilla pudding bundt cake
In the summertime lemon pudding cake would be a great dessert for a barbecue!

Now Instant Pot bread pudding doesn’t actually use the latter word in it but is so moist you’d think that it did. If you have never baked in your pressure cooker it is kinda’ a fun experiment you’ll love. You have to try it and this is a great place to start.

A chocolate bundt cake made with a cake mix with pudding, topped with rich chocolate frosting and white sprinkles, sits on a white plate. A slice has been cut out, revealing the moist interior enhanced by the pudding in the cake mix.

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Pudding Cake Recipe

By Justine Lots of pudding cake recipes you can make with cake mix, a box of instant pudding and a few other ingredients. Makes it the moistest cake ever. Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 34 minutes Servings: 12 Save RecipeSaved! Pin Recipe Comment Print Recipe

Equipment

1 9×13 pan
1 Bowl

Ingredients 1x2x3x

▢ 1 box cake mix, flavor of your choice
▢ 1 box instant pudding, 3.4 oz., any flavor you choose
▢ 1.5 cup milk, or egg nog, or dairy free product like lactose free milk
▢ 2 large eggs
▢ 1/4 cup vegetable oil

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Instructions

Use a mixer on low speed and mix ingredients together until smooth, it will be thick! Spray non stick spray inside your 13×9 inch cake pan and spoon mixture in.
Spread so it is the same thickness all the way across the pan. Put pan on middle rack into preheated oven at 350 degrees for 34 minutes (just until top is golden brown and toothpick comes out clean, do NOT over-bake).
Allow to cool almost completely inside the pan if you want pieces to come out very clean with straight edges.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1oz, Calories: 218kcal, Carbohydrates: 44g, Protein: 4g, Fat: 3g, Saturated Fat: 2g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g, Monounsaturated Fat: 1g, Trans Fat: 0.1g, Cholesterol: 31mg, Sodium: 386mg, Potassium: 78mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 26g, Vitamin A: 89IU, Calcium: 133mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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About Justine

Justine is the creative mind behind The Typical Mom and The Typical Family on YouTube. She began blogging about easy recipes, budget friendly activities for kids, and fun family travel destinations in September 2012.

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15 Comments

Can you use a regular size cake pan?
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1. Pan size is listed in each recipe card
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How to make a pudding cake from scratch: without any box mixes? I’m American living in the U.K. There are very few cake mixes and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a box of instant pudding (because Brits call ANY dessert “pudding”). So, the only way to make it is from scratch. And I prefer to make as much as possible from scratch. Box mixes are cheating.
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1. You can make homemade cake mix this way https://temeculablogs.com/how-to-make-cake-mix/ and homemade pudding mix is here https://www.browneyedbaker.com/diy-homemade-instant-vanilla-pudding-mix/
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Can you make cupcakes instead of cake?
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1. You could try for about 18 minutes at 350
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Many years ago I fixed a cake that when done actually had pudding in it I think on the bottom. I’m talking 50 years ago! I THINK I used a cake mix but not 100% sure. Always Duncan Hines…do u have recipe for anything like that?
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1. No I have always mixed the dry instant pudding mix into the batter itself.
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Wowwwwwww! i just love this recipe thanks for sharing.Delicious Food Recipes
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I have only sugar free instant pudding (vanilla) mix. Is that ok?
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1. should be fine, it will still be sweet it just uses alternatives to sugar is all
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This is the best ratio for a pudding cake. Works beautifully every time with any flavor.
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I am looking for a recipe that is completely homemade. Using pudding mix but not box cake mix. Do you have anyt hat do not use a box cake mix?
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