No-Bake Chocolate and Peanut Butter Dream Bars
Description
This is an easy no bake dessert that is great for holidays but really anytime of the year. It marries two favorite things, chocolate and peanut butter.
Ingredients
16 oz. Nutter Butter peanut butter sandwich cookies, divided (with the cream filling)
4 T. butter, melted
6 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature
1/2 c. powdered sugar
1/3 c. creamy peanut butter
1/2 t. pure vanilla extract
8 oz. Cool Whip, divided
3.9 oz. instant chocolate pudding
1 1/2 c. milk
1/4 c. milk chocolate chips
1/4 c. peanut butter chips
Directions
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Finely crush 20 sandwich cookies in a blender or food processor; set remaining cookies aside for later use.
Melt butter in a medium microwaveable bowl; add crushed cookies; stir until moistened. Press into an 8 X 8 inch baking dish. Place in the freezer for at least 30 minutes to set.
Mix pudding with the milk in a small bowl; refrigerate to set.
In a bowl, beat cream cheese, powdered sugar, peanut butter and vanilla together.
Fold in 1 c. Cool Whip; stir until well blended.
Place dollops of the cream cheese mixture over the crust, and with an offset spatula, gently spread to completely cover. Repeat with the chocolate pudding, placing dollops over the cream cheese and completely cover.*
Spread remaining Cool Whip over the pudding.
Refrigerate 2 hours. Place into freezer for 30 minutes to completely set which allows to cut neat slices.
Break up the remaining cookies in a plastic zip bag. Just before serving, sprinkle on crushed cookies, chocolate chips and peanut butter chips over the top.
9 servings.
*Note: You can put the pudding on top of the cookie crust and then the cheesecake layer. It might be easiest to spread if the order is cookie crust, cheesecake layer, then pudding, and finish it with the whipped topping, the way the photo shows.