We’ve made this dessert in my family as long as I can remember. I can recall as a small boy sitting at our table with a spoon just eating it out of the pan.
Pretty easy to make and everyone seems to enjoy it. It also can be adapted to your individual tastes or dietary needs.
Ingredients
Crust
1 cup water
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cup flour
4 large eggs
Filling / Topping
2 small boxes of instant Jello pudding
3 cups milk
8 oz. cream cheese
8 oz. cool whip
Hershey’s chocolate syrup
First you need to make a pate a choux dough. This is the only semi-difficult part of this recipe.
Bring to a boil 1 cup of water and 1/2 cup of melted unsalted butter. (Just melt your butter in the water as you bring it to a boil). Remove the pot from the heat and add in the 1 cup of flour and stir until combined. Add in one egg at a time and mix in quickly and completely before adding in another egg. It’s a different dough. There are YouTube videos you can watch before making your own.
Spread dough onto a slightly greased pan. I just us Pam cooking spray. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass. The only way I can accomplish this is getting my fingers dirty. I use a jelly roll pan. I like the thickness of the crust using it.
Bake at 400 degrees until golden brown. It took mine about 20 minutes.
This next step is not needed but it allows the crust to cool quicker. I invert my crust onto a cooling rack to let cool.
While the crust is cooling mix up the pudding and milk until fully blended. I used sugar free vanilla pudding and 2% milk. We are trying to cut out as much sugar as we can in our diet. I’ve used regular instant pudding in the past with whole milk. It’s much tastier but not a part of our diets right now. I’ve also used pistachio pudding in the past and that’s pretty good.
Once the pudding is fully mixed add in room temperature cream cheese. We used light cream cheese today.
Spread the pudding / cream cheese mixture over the cooled crust and refrigerate until it is set
Once the pudding / cream cheese mixture is set, spread the tub of Cool Whip over the top. We used sugar free Cool Whip today.
Just before serving drizzle chocolate syrup over the top and get fancy by using a toothpick to draw lines on your dessert. You could have probably guessed that we used sugar free Hershey’s chocolate syrup today.
Pretty easy to make and everyone seems to enjoy it. It also can be adapted to your individual tastes or dietary needs.
Ingredients
Crust
1 cup water
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cup flour
4 large eggs
Filling / Topping
2 small boxes of instant Jello pudding
3 cups milk
8 oz. cream cheese
8 oz. cool whip
Hershey’s chocolate syrup
First you need to make a pate a choux dough. This is the only semi-difficult part of this recipe.
Bring to a boil 1 cup of water and 1/2 cup of melted unsalted butter. (Just melt your butter in the water as you bring it to a boil). Remove the pot from the heat and add in the 1 cup of flour and stir until combined. Add in one egg at a time and mix in quickly and completely before adding in another egg. It’s a different dough. There are YouTube videos you can watch before making your own.
Spread dough onto a slightly greased pan. I just us Pam cooking spray. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass. The only way I can accomplish this is getting my fingers dirty. I use a jelly roll pan. I like the thickness of the crust using it.
Bake at 400 degrees until golden brown. It took mine about 20 minutes.
This next step is not needed but it allows the crust to cool quicker. I invert my crust onto a cooling rack to let cool.
While the crust is cooling mix up the pudding and milk until fully blended. I used sugar free vanilla pudding and 2% milk. We are trying to cut out as much sugar as we can in our diet. I’ve used regular instant pudding in the past with whole milk. It’s much tastier but not a part of our diets right now. I’ve also used pistachio pudding in the past and that’s pretty good.
Once the pudding is fully mixed add in room temperature cream cheese. We used light cream cheese today.
Spread the pudding / cream cheese mixture over the cooled crust and refrigerate until it is set
Once the pudding / cream cheese mixture is set, spread the tub of Cool Whip over the top. We used sugar free Cool Whip today.
Just before serving drizzle chocolate syrup over the top and get fancy by using a toothpick to draw lines on your dessert. You could have probably guessed that we used sugar free Hershey’s chocolate syrup today.
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