Banana Creme Poke Cake

Ok Ok... EVERYONE loves banana creme pie, right? If you don't, you are crazy! I had never heard of a "poke cake" until recently and when I saw a recipe of how it is made I was pretty amazed at how cool it looks. So, for my first poke cake, I decided to do a banana creme one! Here we go...

Banana Creme Poke Cake

Ingredients Needed:

• 1 box of yellow cake mix
• All ingredients needed for the yellow cake
• 2 3.4 oz packages of instant banana creme pudding
• 4 cups of milk
• 1 8 oz tub of cool whip
• 3 bananas
• 1 box of vanilla wafers

Directions:

1. Prepare the yellow cake according to package directions for a 9x13 pan size. 
2. Once cake comes out of the oven, allow it to cool for just a couple of minutes. 
3. with the end of a spoon handle or some other similarly size object, begin poking holes into the cake. You want the holes to be fairly big so that the pudding has plenty of room to get down in there. Be sure to poke right down to the bottom of the cake. 
4. In a bowl, whisk together instant pudding with the 4 cups of milk. Stir until all of the lumps are gone. Let pudding sit for just about 2 minutes so it has just slightly begun to thicken but not fully set, it should still be easily pour-able. 
5. Pour pudding over cake, making sure to get it into the holes as much as possible. Spread it all out and using the back of the spoon gently push pudding down into the holes. 
6. Put your cake into the fridge to cool for about 30 minutes. 
7. While cake is cooling, cut 3 bananas into thin slices. 
8. Pull cake out of fridge and layer the banana slices on top of the cake, pushing each slice slightly into the pudding layer on top. 
9. Spread cool whipped topping over the full cake. 
10. If you haven't done so already, put your vanilla wafers into a plastic bag and crush them. (leave some large chunks for crunchiness)
11. Spread crushed wafers on the top of the cake.
12. Enjoy!