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Pistachio Pudding Cake

Moist pistachio cake made with a cake mix, pudding, and pistachios.

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Make your dessert special with a pistachio pudding cake that combines cake mix and pudding for a moist, delicious treat. It’s moist, nutty, and topped with a silky vanilla glaze.

 

Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 box (15.25 ounces) white or yellow cake mix
  • 1 package (3.4 ounces) instant pistachio pudding mix
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup neutral oil, such as canola
  • 1 cup ginger ale (or club soda)
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/3  cup sour cream
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped pistachios

Glaze

  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 to 4 tablespoons milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped pistachios

Instructions

  1. Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt cake pan or spray it with baking spray and heat the oven to 350 F.
    The Bundt cake pan is greased and generously floured.
    Credit: Diana Rattray
  2. Combine the cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, oil, ginger ale, sour cream, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on low speed. Beat until combined. Increase the speed to medium, and beat for 3 more minutes.
    Pistachio cake batter in a mixing bowl.
    Credit: Diana Rattray
  3. Fold the chopped pistachios into the batter and pour into the prepared Bundt cake pan.
    An easy pistachio cake is ready to bake.
    Credit: Diana Rattray
  4. Bake the cake for about 40 to 50 minutes, or until the cake springs back when lightly touched with a finger.
    Baked pistachio Bundt cake in the pan.
    Credit: Diana Rattray
  5. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes, then invert onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
    Pistachio bundt cake cooling on a rack.
    Credit: Diana Rattray

Prepare the Glaze

 

  1. Whisk the confectioners’ sugar with the milk and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla to make a glaze consistency. Spoon over the cooled cake and garnish with chopped pistachios.
    Moist pistachio cake made with a cake mix, pudding, and pistachios.
    Credit: Diana Rattray
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