Banana cream pie cookies are sweet and creamy with a graham cracker crust inspired cookie base and an easy banana cream filling. Now you can make this Crumbl cookie copycat in the comfort of your own kitchen!
Once upon a time I decided to make a peach crisp cookie which was like a peach crisp and a peach cobbler all in one. Then I figured an apple crisp cookie had to come next. It was divine!
So naturally I had to dabble into the cream pie-inspired cookies, and the key lime pie cookie was born and the pumpkin pie cookie quickly followed. And with each new cookie, someone would tell me that Crumbl had the same cookie. Ha! Blast those Crumbl people!
So I guess you can call these Crumbl cookie copycat recipes, but these recipes have really just been my imagination running wild. What kind of cookie should I try to make next that Crumbl hasn’t already made?! Is there anything? I know they have a banana cream pie cookie already, but ours is better! 🤫
Ingredients for Banana Cream Pie Cookies
The ingredients for this banana cookie recipe is divided into two components. First, you have the banana cream pudding and then you have the cookie base. Here is what you will need for both parts:
Banana Cream Pie Filling
- Bananas: You want them slightly ripe, bright yellow with just a few brown spots on the peels to add real banana flavor.
- Whole Milk: Combines with the pudding powder to make the creamy filling.
- Instant French Vanilla Pudding Mix: Make sure it is the instant pudding mix and NOT the cook and serve kind.
- Cream Cheese: adds richness and creaminess
- Sweetened Condensed Milk: adds more sweetness and creaminess
- Cool Whip: You can use regular whipped cream but Cool Whip holds its thickness and structure better.
Cookie Base
- Unsalted Butter: make sure it is softened but not melting at all
- Cream Cheese: need to be softened so it will integrate into the cookie dough smoothly
- Brown Sugar: adds rich flavor and sweetness
- White Sugar: adds sweetness
- Vanilla Extract: adds flavor
- Eggs: adds structure to the cookie base
- Almond Extract: totally optional, but I love the flavor it adds
- Flour: just regular all-purpose flour
- Cornstarch: adds chewiness to the cookies
- Baking Powder and Baking Soda: adds fluffiness and rise to the cookies
- Salt
Indulge in this delicious no-bake banana pudding pie with a crunchy Nilla wafer crust. It’s the perfect dessert for any occasion and requires minimal effort to make.
I know it’s kind of a long title, but I wanted you to know that’s it not a graham cracker crust (which you can totally use instead if you want). And technically it’s not no bake pie either because you do have to bake the crust. Well, no you don’t. Oh gosh, this no bake banana cream pie with Nilla wafer crust is getting confusing let’s just shoot through a few facts (I’m channeling my inner Dwight Schrute from The Office)…
- Fact~ I’ve never seen all of The Office, but I have seen episodes and it was hilarious.
- Fact~ This crust uses Nilla Wafers not Graham Crackers.
- Fact~ I have called them Vanilla wafers my whole life until I made this recipe and realized that is not the name on the box.
- Fact~ You totally do not have to bake the crust. It just won’t be as hard on the bottom but it’s still wonderful.
- Fact~ The rest of the pie is no bake and I mean it. It just whisking and stirring and folding.
- Fact~ I actually made, photographed and wrote this post in December, but I’m posting in spring because I couldn’t justify one more treat during the already full schedules of desserts.
- Fact~ I love pie. And the number 7.
Ingredients for a Banana Pudding Pie
It’s surprising how few ingredients you need to make this super easy banana pudding pie recipe. Here is what you will need:
Crust
- Nilla Wafer Crumbs: I like to grind the cookies in a blender. A food processor would work great too.
- Sugar: adds a little sweetness to the crust
- Butter: binds the cookie crumbs and sugar all together to form the crust
Filling
- Banana Cream Instant Pudding: grab the 3.4 ounce box of instant pudding mix and make sure it isn’t the sugar free kind
- Milk: helps create the banana pudding
- Cream Cheese: adds richness and creaminess
- Sweetened Condensed Milk: adds sweetness and creaminess to the filling
- Cool Whip: feel free to use sweetened whipped cream if you prefer not to use Cool Whip
- Bananas: adds natural banana flavor to the pie
- Nilla Wafers: adds texture to the filling and looks pretty scattered on top
If you are looking for a traditional banana cream pie with everything made from scratch, we have that recipe for you too
A banana cream pie recipe that is made completely from scratch and infused with real banana flavor. This is the best banana pie filling you’ll ever find!
I used the ATK method of infusing the filling with real bananas and oh my gosh, I love it so much. Why don’t people like pie?! What is wrong with the world? I have never once posted our bcp recipe because I hate that it lacked banana flavor. And now I’m so happy!
I heard someone complaining it’s the worst dessert and a piece of my soul withered right there. Right there on the spot! I just can’t understand it! Pie is dessert perfection!
What You Need to Make Banana Cream Pie
There’s nothing crazy going on with this recipe at all. You’ll just need your basic cream pie ingredients plus a few bananas. Here is your ingredients list:
- Pie Crust – this crust is made with all butter and the post shows photos of every step to help you along the way!
- Ingredients: flour, unsalted butter, salt, sugar, ice water
Egg Wash
Brushing the crust with an egg wash in the middle of baking it will help make the crust shine and keep it from getting soggy when you put the filling in.