You don’t even have to turn your oven on for this delicious easy dessert! This one comes straight from my Mom’s cookbook:
A few notes before you start: For the crushed cookies – you can, of course, use a food processor or chopper for this step, but be careful not to over process the cookies. You do not want a powdery texture, but rather a “chunkier” one. You want to have some larger pieces to hold it all in place. I prefer to use a coffee mug. Yes, really. Using the bottom of a coffee mug, press down over the Oreos a small section at a time, until they are all crushed (leaving some larger pieces). It should look like this:
Now to the “room temp” cream cheese – who has time for that? Not me. 30% -40% power in microwave, one minute intervals until you get a smooth texture that can easily be mixed.
Lastly, you will notice the “original” family instructions say to refrigerate for one hour in between layers. I have always put the pan in the freezer while I make the next layer, and never had any issues. This is up for debate amongst family members, but for the sake of time I will always stick with the freezer method.
This dessert is going to cut nicer the next day, so I make it the night before. You can, by all means, eat it the day of but it may be more of a “bowl” dessert on day one.
Finished Result:
No Bake Oreo Dessert
Ingredients
- 1 13.29 oz pkg Oreo cookies (crushed)
- 12 Tbsp Salted Butter (melted)
- 16 oz Cool Whip
- 1 cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 8 oz block Cream Cheese (room temperature)
- 1 5.9 oz box Instant Chocolate Pudding
- 3 cups Cold Milk
Instructions
- Gather your ingredients.
- Line crushed Oreos in the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Set aside a half cup of crushed Oreos. These will be used for the topping at the end.
- Melt 1.5 sticks of butter and drizzle evenly over the entire pan of Oreos. Place pan in freezer while the next layer is prepared.
- Combine 8 oz cream cheese, 1 cup powdered sugar, and 8 oz Cool Whip. Mix with an electric mixer until there are little to no cream cheese lumps. (about 4 minutes)
- Spread the cream cheese, powdered sugar, Cool Whip mixture evenly over the bottom layer of Oreos and butter. Place pan in freezer while the next layer is prepared.
- Prepare pudding according to package instructions. After pudding has set, layer evenly over the cream cheese layer, powdered sugar, Cool Whip layer.
- Layer the remaining 8 oz of Cool Whip on top, and sprinkle with the half cup of Oreos. Keep Refrigerated and Enjoy!
