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Fox Pines Decadent Chocolate Ice Box Dessert

An ice box cake made chocolatey with chocolate pudding mix, but vanilla or other flavors would work as well. The crust bakes for 10 minutes, and everything after that is cold.  Chill at least 2 hours prior to cutting.

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword choclate cream cheese pie, chocolate peanut butter ice box pie, icebox pie
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
cooling time 30 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 1 7 x 10" pan

Ingredients

For the bottom crust

  • 6 sheets graham crackers
  • 6 each cream cookies - chocolate or vanilla/chocolate with creme
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup self rising flour
  • 6 tbsp melted butter

Cream cheese - Peanut butter layer

  • 1 oz block of cream or Neufchatel cheese, softened
  • 1/4 cup confectioners sugar
  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2-3 tbsp heavy cream

For pudding layer

  • 1 package instant chocolate pudding or try vanilla, lemon, butterscotch
  • 2 cup cold milk

Whipped cream layer

  • 1 cup heavy cream/ whipping cream
  • 1/4 cup confectioners sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

Crust

  1. Crush graham crackers and cookies together into fine crumbs either by hand or in a food processor. add in the flour and sugar, and mix.  Pour in the melted, slightly cooled butter, and mix well until all the crumbs are moist.

  2. Spray a baking pan with nonstick spray, and press the crumbs into the bottom.

  3. Bake 375F for 10 minutes.  Cool completely.

Cream cheese layer

  1. Using hand mixer, put softened cream cheese, and peanut butter in a medium size bowl.  Add  vanilla and salt.  Mix until creamy.  It will be thick, so add cream, 1 tbsp at a time, until it has a spreadable consistency.

  2. spread over the cooled crust

Pudding layer

  1. prepare the pudding per the package instructions with the milk.  I did it right in the same bowl and using mixer beaters I creamed the cheese with, no washing  in between.  I figure added flavor into this layer.

  2. Once  the pudding mix starts to thicken, but before it sets all the way, pour it over the cream cheese layer.

The whipped topping

  1. to make whipped cream, use a clean bowl and clean beaters (refrigerated if possible to make them cold) and whip the cream on high until soft peaks start to form.  Add the vanilla and sugar and whip another minute or so until thickened and peaks form. 

  2. Spread over the pudding layer.

  3. Sprinkle the top with 1 tsp cocoa powder, mini chocolate chips, or make small shavings of chocolate.

    if using lemon, sprinkle with lemon zest.  Vanilla pudding - chopped white chocolate chips