Sand Bucket Dessert
These Sand Bucket Dessert Cups are the cutest summer dessert that you will ever make. Layers of white cake, cheesecake pudding, and crushed vanilla wafer make a beach themed dessert that is as festive as it is fun.
Not only is this dessert festive and fun, but it’s also really easy to make. You’ll need just a couple of simple ingredients to make this show-stopping dessert, so gather these ingredients and get ready to show off this dessert at your summer parties and cookouts.
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- This recipe is perfect for summer cookouts and parties.
- It’s a unique and festive dessert that will wow your guests!
- Plus, it only takes a few simple ingredients and combines the flavors of white cake, cheesecake pudding, and crushed vanilla wafers.
- It’s easy to make, so you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your friends and family.
🛒Ingredients
For this recipe, you will need a few simple ingredients which are all easy to find at your local grocery store. So, you don’t have to worry about driving around town to different stores to find specialty ingredients. Once you see how pretty these turn out, they will be well worth the trip to the store.
- white cake
- Water, oil and eggs the box calls for
- Lemon
- blue sprinkles
- cheesecake instant pudding
- cold milk
- Blue food coloring
- crushed vanilla wafers
- Teddy Grahams
- Rainbow stripe candy
See the recipe card below for quantities.
🔪 How to Make This Sand Bucket Dessert
Making this summer dessert is so simple. Just follow the step by step directions below and you will have a festive and beautiful dessert to share with your family and friends in no time at all.
Step 1: Preheat the oven and prepare a baking dish
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9×13 baking dish well with nonstick cooking spray.
Step 2: Mix the cake batter
In a large bowl combine the cake mix and the water, oil, and eggs the box calls for. Add the juice of one lemon to the cake mix. And, then add the sprinkles to the cake mix.
Step 3: Bake the cake
Pour the cake batter into a prepared 9×13 baking dish. And, then bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Step 4: Slice and cool the cake
Slice into bite size squares. Set aside to cool.
Step 5: Make the pudding
Combine the cheesecake with the milk and whisk. Add in the blue food coloring until you get your desired shade of blue.
Step 6: Fill the buckets
Into your buckets divide the cake squares into each of the 10 buckets. Next top each one with the blue pudding. Top each one evenly with the vanilla wafer crumbs.
Step 7: Decorate the buckets
Decorate the top of each one with an umbrella, 2 teddy graham, and a little beach blanket cut out of the rainbow stripe candy. Refrigerate for an hour. Serve!
📝Variations
Do you want to change up this recipe and make it your own? Here are some ways that you can do that!
- Cake Mix: Try using different flavors of cake mix, such as strawberry or chocolate.
- Whipped Topping: Swap out the pudding for Cool Whip instead.
- Fruit: Add a layer of fresh fruit in between the cake and pudding layers.
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🥄 Equipment
Here’s a quick list of the equipment that you will need to make this easy summer dessert recipe. Gather these tools and get ready to enjoy this festive treat.
- mixing bowls
- 9×13 baking dish
- 8 ounce clear plastic buckets
- paper umbrellas
🥫 Storage
These dessert cups can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. I don’t recommend freezing them as the pudding layer can separate.
💭 Tips
Here are a few tips that you can use to ensure that this summer dessert recipe turns out perfectly for you every time that you make them.
- Bake the cake in a 9×13 baking dish. This will make it easier to slice into small squares.
- Use clear plastic buckets for the dessert cups. This will make them look like real sand buckets!
- If you can’t find crushed vanilla wafers at your local grocery store you can crush them yourself at home with a food processor or blender.
- If you don’t have a lemon on hand, you can use bottled lemon juice instead.
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
The juice on one lemon is about 3 tablespoons of lemon juice. So, if you are using bottled use about 3 tablespoons.
Yes, these need to be stored in the refrigerator. They will stay fresh for up to 5 days when stored in an airtight container.
I cover the cups with plastic wrap to keep them fresh while they are in the fridge.
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🧾Recipe Card
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Sand Bucket Dessert
Equipment
- mixing bowls
- 9×13 baking dish
- 8 ounce clear plastic buckets
- paper umbrellas
Ingredients
- 15.25 ounces white cakemix
- Water oil and eggs the box calls for
- 1 Lemon juiced
- 1 ½ tablespoons blue sprinkles
- 6.8 ounces cheesecake instant pudding two 3.4 ounce boxes
- 4 cups cold milk
- Blue food coloring
- 1 ½ cups crushed vanilla wafers
- Teddy grahams
- Rainbow stripe candy
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl combine the cake mix and the water, oil and eggs the box calls for.
- Add the juice of one lemon to the cake mix.
- Add the sprinkles to the cake mix.
- Pour the cake batter into a prepared 9×13 baking dish.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Slice into bite size squares.
- Set aside to cool.
- Meanwhile prepare the pudding.
- Combine the cheesecake with the milk and whisk.
- Add in the blue food coloring until you get your desired shade of blue.
- Into your buckets divide the cake squares into each of the 10 buckets.
- Next top each one with the blue pudding.
- Top each one evenly with the vanilla wafer crumbs.
- Decorate the top of each one with an umbrella, 2 teddy graham and a little beach blanket cut out of the rainbow stripe candy.
- Refrigerate for an hour.
- Serve!
