Banana Cream Poke Cake

What You Need:
1. Yellow cake mix (water, egg & oil)
2. Large box of Jello brand banana pudding (3 cups milk)
3. Cool whip
4. 20 vanilla wafers (8 to crush for top and 12 to top individual cake pieces
5. 1/4 cup sliced almond
6. 1 banana to top individual cake pieces (if desired)

 What to do:
1. Prepare cake mix according to directions on box and bake in a 9 x 13 baking pan

2. Let cool for a few minutes and use wooden spoon handle to poke holes in the cake top.  

Make sure they go all the way to bottom of the pan (see pictures below for an example)
3. Prepare banana pudding according to directions on box and let chill for a few minutes

4. Pour pudding on top of yellow cake, making sure to get pudding in holes and 

spread across top until smooth.
5. Chill cake with pudding on top for about 15 minutes.

 Then top with cook whip, frosting until smooth.

6. Put 8 vanilla wafers (more if desired) in Ziploc baggie and crush with rolling pin. 

Sprinkle on cake top.
7. Sprinkle with almond slices
8. Garnish individual slices with vanilla wafer and banana slice.

This cake is light, fresh, and delicious.  The only problem is it goes down way to easy

 and you might want to eat a really BIG piece!  Or two or three.
My family loves banana cream pie, but I'm not a very good pie maker.  

This is a great alternative to banana cream pie. Enjoy!
I first saw this recipe on Pinterest and then found where it originated at thecountrycook.net