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No Bake Banana Split Cake

This no bake banana split cake is full of cheesecake, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry frosting, banana chips, cherries, and whipped cream.

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword No Bake Banana Spilt Cake, No Bake Cake, No Bake Desserts
Prep Time 1 hour
Chill Time 12 hours
Total Time 13 hours
Servings 8 Slices

Ingredients

Graham Cracker Crust

  • 1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly melted
  • Baking spray
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt, I used sea salt

Vanilla Cheesecake

  • 24 ounces cream cheese, (3) 8 ounce packages softened
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 16 ounces Cool Whip thawed
  • 2 cups hot fudge sauce
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt, I used fine sea salt

Topping

  • 16 ounces vanilla frosting
  • 16 ounces chocolate fudge frosting
  • 16 ounces strawberry frosting
  • Maraschino cherries
  • Banana chips. freeze dried

Whipped Cream Topping

  • 1 ½ cups heavy whipping cream
  • ¾ cup powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • small pinch salt, I used fine sea salt

Instructions

Graham Cracker Crust

  1. Spray the bottom of a 9-inch springform pan with baking spray.

  2. Press half the graham cracker crust into the pie dish.

  3. Combine the ingredient.s into a medium bowl

  4. Press the remaining crust up along the sides.

  5. Place the springform pan into the freezer while you make the no bake cheesecake.

Make the Vanilla Cheesecake Layer

  1. Using a large bowl, beat together cream cheese until smooth.

  2. Gradually add in the powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla and beat until completely smooth.

  3. Gently fold in the cool whip into the cheesecake batter until combined and smooth.

  4. Remove the crust from freezer and scoop the cheesecake batter into the crust.

  5. Spoon about half of the hot fudge sauce into a microwave safe bowl and place into the microwave for 30 seconds.

  6. Pour the hot fudge into the piping bag and cut the tip off.

  7. Pipe a squiggly line all over the top of the cheesecake.

  8. Using a butter knife, swirl the cheesecake and hot fudge together..

  9. Place the cheesecake into the fridge overnight.

Whipped Cream Directions

  1. Using a large bowl, place the bowl into the freezer for 30 minutes.

  2. Remove the bowl after 30 minutes and add in the 1 ½ C heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla.

  3. Using a hand mixer, beat the ingredients together until stiff peaks form. About 10 minutes.

  4. Scoop the whipped cream into the piping bag.

  5. Pipe dollops of whipped cream all around the edge of the pie.

  6. Place the pie into the freezer for 1 hour to harden the whipped cream.

Decorating the Pie

  1. Before the hour is up, scoop some more hot fudge into a microwave safe bowl and heat for 30 seconds or until the hot fudge is soft.

  2. Pour into a disposable piping bag and place into the freezer for 3 minutes.

  3. Remove the pie from the freezer as well as the hot fudge.

  4. Remove the springform pan.

  5. Cut the tip off the hot fudge and pipe hot fudge onto the top of the whipped cream to make it look like fudge on top of ice cream.

  6. Once done, place back into the freezer for 30 minutes.

  7. Once the 30 minutes is up, remove the pie from the freezer.

  8. Using the cookie scoop, take the vanilla frosting and scoop a mound of frosting onto the center like a ice cream scoop. Rinse the scoop off.

  9. Take a second scoop of the chocolate frosting into a mound and scoop it out next to the vanilla frosting mound. Rinse the scoop off again.

  10. Repeat the steps with the strawberry frosting.

  11. Once you have a mound of frosting, take the whipped cream and pipe a big dollop on top.

  12. Place a maraschino cherry in the dollop.

  13. Alternate between the banana chips and maraschino cherries as garnish.

  14. Serve and Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

I recommend that you only top with the cheesecake with the cherries and banana chips when you are ready to serve it. Otherwise the cherries will cause the topping to become runny.