Get beach ready with these cute sand pudding buckets! Layers of fluffy white cake, blue cheesecake pudding, and crushed cookies in a sand pail bring this summer treat all together.
1 ½ cups crushed vanilla wafers30-35 Vanilla Wafers or 60 Mini Vanilla Wafers
Teddy Grahams
Rainbow stripe candyExtreme Airheads
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Then prepare a 9x13 baking dish by spraying it with nonstick spray.
Combine the cake mix, water, oil, and eggs in a large bowl according the box cakes instructions. Then add the juice of one lemon to the bowl and blue sprinkles.
Pour the cake mix into the prepared 9x13 baking dish. Then bake for 45 minutes. Once the cake is done baking insert a toothpick into the cake To make sure it’s done.
Cut the cake into small bite sized squares. Let the cake cool.
Combine the cheesecake pudding mix and the milk. Whisk the ingredients together. Add in the blue food coloring until it’s at a color you like. Then mix in the sprinkles.
2 (3.4 oz) boxes cheesecake instant pudding, 4 cups cold milk, Blue food coloring, 1 1/2 tbsp blue sprinkles
Line 10 buckets up and add a slice of cake to each bucket. Then evenly distribute the pudding on top of the cake.
Sprinkle the crushed vanilla wafers over the blue pudding.
1 1/2 cups crushed vanilla wafers
Garnish the sand pudding dessert with a Teddy Graham laying on top of a strip of the rainbow candy as a towel, other Teddy Grahams hanging out, and/or a drink umbrella on top.
Teddy Grahams, Rainbow stripe candy
Serve immediately or chill until serving if not serving immediately.
Notes
Make the cake and pudding ahead of time so it is ready to go when you are wanting to assemble it. Then just assemble it right before you’re ready to serve.Wait to put sand and decorations on until you are ready to serve so the crumbs don’t become too mushy. Skip the sand pails if you’d prefer and use any clear plastic cups for the same sand pudding dessert, just not quite as cute.Store in the fridge for up to three days, if there is not a layer of sand on the pudding, cover with plastic wrap. Ingredient Notes:
White cake mix - you can either used a boxed white cake or a homemade white cake, you just need something that you can cut up and put into the buckets. You could also use yellow if you wanted to, but I like the white cake with blue sprinkles.
Lemon - you can omit this if you don't want the hint of lemon flavor in the cake.
Sprinkles - any blue sprinkles will work or you can omit these as well.
Cheesecake pudding mix - you can use white chocolate or vanilla as well.
Vanilla Wafers - regular size or mini work well or if you want to try something else, Golden Oreos or graham crackers also work great.
Candy decorations - Teddy Grahams can be replaced with Sour Patch Kids or gummy bears; colorful mints can be added as beach balls, etc. Get creative!