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Chocolate Pudding Dessert

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"Family Favorite"
From:
Nina Roberts
Ingredients
  • Crust:
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 cubes butter (3/4 cup)
  • 2/3 cup chopped nuts

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 pkg (8 oz.) cream cheese - softened
  • 1 carton (9 oz.) whipped topping - frozen

  • 2 pkgs (3 oz. each) instant chocolate pudding (can use 1 chocolate + 1 vanilla)
  • 3 cups milks
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Steps
  1. For crust, combine first 3 ingredients and cut together as for pie crust, until they resemble coarse meal.
  2. Press well into a 9x13x2" baking pan.
  3. Bake 325° for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
  4. Beat together sugar and cream cheese until fluffy. Add 1/2 the whipped topping.
  5. Spread on cooled crust.
  6. Make up pudding according to package directions, using just 3 cups of milk. Spread the pudding on the cream cheese layer.
  7. Spread remaining whipped topping on pudding layer.
  8. Sprinkle with additional chopped nuts, if desired.
  9. Chill several hours or overnight.
Tips
Butterscotch or other instant pudding flavors may also be used