What Is Pudding mix and How Can I Use It?

Here's everything worth knowing about pudding mix and how to pick it, what it is, how to store it, and what to use instead, plus 43 recipes to cook tonight.

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Pudding mix is a member of the Sweets US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.

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Recipes using pudding mix

There are 43 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Cool & Creamy Pumpkin Pie

Cool and creamy pumpkin pie folds whipped cream into a butterscotch-pudding pumpkin filling spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg, then chills in a cinnamon-sugar-glazed crust. A no-bake pumpkin pie that skips the oven entirely.

Butterscotch Bubble Load

Butterscotch bubble bread, a gooey pull-apart loaf made from frozen dinner rolls coated in butterscotch pudding mix and pecans, baked in a bundt pan under a brown sugar caramel. Easy sticky-bun flavor.

7-Up Lemon Cheesecake with Strawberry Glaze

7-Up Lemon Cheesecake with Strawberry Glaze recipe

Double Layer Pumpkin Pie

Wow your family this Thanksgiving with this decadent pumpkin pie that will have everyone asking for a second slice!

Chocolate Pudding Brownies

Chocolate pudding brownies use cook-and-serve pudding mix as the cocoa base, giving fudgy bars with a tender crumb and deep chocolate flavor. Topped with powdered sugar.

Breakfast Loaves

Pull-apart breakfast bread with frozen dough, brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and pudding mix for a caramel-sticky glaze. An easy monkey bread-style brunch treat.

Easy Cheesy Apple Pie

Sliced apples tossed with pudding mix, layered over a press-in oat crust, topped with shredded American cheese and a buttery crumble. A sweet-savory apple pie with no rolling pin needed.

Snickers Ice Cream

Snickers ice cream made by folding crunchy peanut butter, chocolate pudding mix, and whipped cream into vanilla ice cream. A no-churn freezer dessert that tastes like the candy bar.

Sticky Buns with Pecan

Pecan sticky buns use frozen dinner rolls topped with vanilla pudding mix, brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and pecans. Assemble at night, rise overnight, bake in the morning for fresh sticky buns.

Chocolate Malted Pie

Chocolate malted pie with a graham cracker crust, malted milk pudding filling, fresh whipped cream, and chopped Whoppers candies. A diner-style chocolate cream pie with old-school soda fountain flavor.

Chocolate Banana Pie

Chocolate banana pie sets sliced bananas under chocolate pudding on a peanut butter rice cereal crust. A no-bake light dessert with three pantry-staple flavors stacked tall.

Frosty Chocolate Pudding

Frosty chocolate pudding boosted with melted unsweetened chocolate, topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and toasted coconut. A quick semi-homemade dessert with extra-rich chocolate flavor.

Gary's Chocolate Cream Pie

Chocolate cream pie made the easy way: a double batch of thick chocolate pudding folded with fresh whipped cream, piled into a baked pie shell and crowned with more whipped cream and bittersweet chocolate shavings. No oven needed for the filling.

English Orange Trifle

English orange trifle layered with liqueur-soaked quick bread, vanilla pudding with orange zest, and marmalade, frosted with sweetened whipped cream. A make-ahead showstopper dessert.

Cherry Delight Cake

Lemon cake layered with cream cheese filling and cherry pie filling, frosted with vanilla pudding whipped topping and crowned with more cherries on top.

Easy Sticky Buns

Overnight sticky buns from frozen bread dough with brown sugar, vanilla pudding mix, and cinnamon. Mix tonight, bake tomorrow morning. The classic shortcut breakfast.

Favourite Chocolate Mocha Sponge Cake

Chocolate mocha sponge cake bakes a tender egg-yolk-lifted cocoa cake in a tube pan, then layers it with a coffee-spiked vanilla pudding buttercream. Three-layer mocha tea cake with vintage charm.

Barcardi Rum Chocolate Cake

Bacardi rum chocolate cake with a boozy chocolate pudding filling. Dark rum in both the cake layers and the whipped filling makes this a rich, adults-only dessert.

Black Bottom Pie II

Microwave black bottom pie II with chocolate cookie crumb crust, vanilla pudding spiked with creme de cacao, and a fold of whipped cream. Easy chilled dessert that skips the oven entirely.

Pineapple Blueberry Cream Tart

Layered summer tart with blueberries, lemon pudding, crushed pineapple, and vanilla whipped cream. A stunning no-bake filling in a golden baked crust.

Parade Pie

No-bake rum pineapple pie with vanilla pudding, sour cream, and crushed pineapple in a graham cracker crust. A boozy, creamy chilled dessert that sets in 3 hours.

Good Luck Rice Custard

A rice pudding style custard dessert from Louisiana.

Chocolate Custard Chocolate Cheesecake

Chocolate custard chocolate cheesecake combines a rich pudding-based chocolate filling with cream cheese and folded egg whites, topped with sour cream over a graham cracker crust. Deeply chocolatey, custard-soft.

Chocolate Peanut Dream Pie

Chocolate peanut dream pie with creamy peanut butter folded into chocolate pudding, lifted with whipped topping, and chilled in a graham cracker crust. The 4-ingredient potluck pie that disappears first.

Chocolate Chunk Chocolate Cookies

Triple-chocolate cookies with a secret ingredient: mayonnaise. Chocolate cake mix, chocolate fudge pudding mix, and semisweet chocolate chunks bound together with mayo for fudgy cookies that come together in 20 minutes.

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