No-Bake Banana Split Cake (2024)

No-Bake Banana Split Cake has all the fabulous flavors you'd expect from a scrumptiously melty banana split sundae, all in an easy to prepare no-bake dessert. Complete with maraschino cherries on top of course, because it wouldn't be a banana split without a cherry on top!

To people who know me well, this confession will come as no surprise. I am a choco-holic.

Yes, that's right. I fully admit that I am a 100%-confirmed, no-denying-it choco-holic. I have to have a bit of the stuff every day. Every. single. day. ... or I can tell I haven't. And probably so can the people around me.

No-Bake Banana Split Cakehas all the fabulous flavors you'd expect from a scrumptiously melty banana split sundae, all in an easy to prepare no-bake dessert.

So imagine my surprise when I found something that didn't taste better with chocolate! I mean, all things sweet {and even some savory} taste better with chocolate, right?

Wrong!

Because this No-Bake Banana Split Cake, in my humble opinion, decidedly does not taste better with chocolate. At least not with the kind of chocolate I tried, anyway.

See, following my firm belief that everything's better with chocolate, I decidedto try a piece of this Banana Split Cake with a big old drizzling of chocolatesauce on top.

Makes sense, right? I mean when you order a banana split sundae, it comeswith heaps of delicious chocolate sauce running in melting rivers down the sidesof the sundae.

I thought it would make perfect sense then that chocolate sauce would be adeliciously-appropriate topping for No-Bake Banana Split Cake, too. But Iwas mistaken.

Standing in for the ice cream, is essentially a layer of cream cheese frosting ~ cream cheese, softened butter, and confectioners' sugar whipped all together until fluffy and light.

When I added chocolate sauce, all it served to do was overpower the wonderfulbanana and pineapple flavors of this dessert.

It was like getting a big smack of chocolate in the mouth ... and missing out onall the other banana split flavors going on.

And so, I decided that this is one place where chocolate should stay away.Which is a tough thing for a choco-holic like me to come to terms with.

But with it's creamy layers of cream cheese filling, crushed pineapple andbananas, and cherry-adorned whipped cream, I think I can figure out a way tobravely move on without my beloved chocolate.

No-Bake Banana Split Cake has all the fabulous flavors you'd expect from a scrumptiously melty banana split sundae. And it truly couldn't be any easier to prepare.

It starts with a simple graham cracker crumb crust pressed into the bottom of a 9x13" baking dish.

Then, standing in for the ice cream, is essentially a layer of cream cheese frosting ~ cream cheese, softened butter, and confectioners' sugar whipped all together until fluffy and light.

Next comes crushed pineapple and sliced bananas, which gets slathered with whipped cream, sprinkled with chopped pecans, and ... of course ... topped with maraschino cherries.

It wouldn't be a banana split without a cherry on top now, would it?

Another time, I may just try a different form of chocolate ... perhaps some minichocolate chips sprinkled in the filling or on top, I'm thinking. BecauseI still feel that somehow chocolate's got to work in a banana split dessert.

But until I figure out the chocolate thing, believe me ... this No-Bake BananaSplit Cake is one deliciously creamy non-chocolate dessert even this choco-holiccan love!

Check out these other tasty banana treats:

• Buttermilk Banana Bread
• Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
• Pumpkin Banana Bread
• Old-Fashioned Banana Pudding from Scratch
• Banana Pudding Yum Yum
• Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Banana Pudding Pie
• Banana Pudding Cake
• Banana Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
• More desserts

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