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This Chocolate Lasagna is layers of creamy cream cheese and rich chocolate pudding with an Oreo cookie crust. This dessert is excellent for serving a crowd and it’s SO good – layers of no bake dessert everyone will love.
What is Chocolate Lasagna?
Chocolate lasagna is a decadent no-bake chocolate dessert. It gets its name because the dessert is made in layers, like lasagna. Except there’s no pasta involved! This is like my no bake blueberry delight, but chocolate!
Sometimes it’s called a chocolate icebox cake or chocolate dream dessert, but no matter what you call it, it’s a chocolate lover’s dream. An Oreo crust, no bake cheesecake layer, and a chocolate pudding layer combine to make the best no-bake dessert ever.
Ingredients Needed
- Crushed Oreo cookies – use a food processor to crush the cookies or place them in a bag and pound them with a rolling pin to make the chocolate cookie crust.
- Cream Cheese – make sure one block (8 ounces cream cheese) is softened.
- Powdered Sugar – I prefer this to granulated sugar because it mixes in easier but you can use an equal amount of granulated in place of powdered if preferred.
- Cool Whip – thaw whipped topping at room temperature for a few hours before you use it. You need 16 ounces (2 tubs).
- Instant chocolate pudding mix – get the 3.4 ounce size of instant pudding mix and make sure it’s instant
How to Make Chocolate Lasagna
- Crush Oreo cookies to fine crumbs. Mix the Oreo cookie crumbs with the melted butter and press the mixture into an even layer in a 9×13″ baking pan.
- Beat the softened cream cheese with the powdered sugar in a large bowl with an electric hand mixer. Add the vanilla and mix to combine. Gently fold in one container of thawed whipped topping.
- Spread the cream cheese mixture over the top of the crust.
- Whisk the pudding mix and cold milk in a medium bowl. Let it sit until it’s soft-set. Spread the pudding over the top of the cream cheese layer.
- Spread the rest of the whipped topping over the pudding layer. Sprinkle the chocolate shavings over the top for decoration.
Expert Tips
- It’s important that your cream cheese is completely room temperature to avoid lumps in your cheesecake layer.
- You can use any fat content milk for the pudding but I do not recommend nondairy milk (there is a different pudding to nondairy milk ratio so the pudding sets).
- You don’t have to remove the filling from the Oreos before you crush them.
- Freshly whipped cream can be substituted for the cool whip, about 4 cups heavy whipping cream beaten to stiff peaks.
- Topping: Feel free to use homemade whipped cream instead of Cool Whip. You will need 4 cups of heavy whipping cream.
Storage & Making Ahead
- Can you make chocolate lasagna ahead of time? Make it up to 24 hours in advance. Store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days. It needs to chill several hours before eating so it’s the perfect make ahead dessert.
- Store your no bake dessert in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days as long as you’ve made it with whipped toppihng. It may start to weep if you’ve used whipped cream.
- Theoretically you can freeze this if made with whipped topping but I don’t recommend it. It’s best fresh.
No Bake Chocolate Lasagna Recipe
Layers of chocolate crust and chocolate pudding with no-bake cheesecake and whipped cream make up this Chocolate Lasagna!
Recipe Video
Prep Time 20 minutes
Chill Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 20 minutes
Equipment
- Offset Spatula to help spread layers evenly
Ingredients
- 36 Oreos (from a package of about 14.3 ounces)
- 6 tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter melted
- 8 ounces (225g) cream cheese softened
- ¼ cup (28g) powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 (8 ounces each) containers whipped topping, thawed and divided
- 2 (3.4 ounces each) boxes chocolate instant pudding
- 2 ½ cups (592 ml) nonfat milk
- Chocolate shavings for garnish
Instructions
- Crush Oreos in a food processor until a fine crumb. If you don’t have a food processor, roughly chop them then add them to a Ziploc bag and crush using a rolling pin.
- Stir crumbs together with melted butter and press into the bottom of a 9×13-inch baking dish. Chill while preparing filling.
- Beat cream cheese and powdered sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer, mixing until smooth. Mix in vanilla then fold in one container of whipped topping (8 ounces). Spread cream cheese layer over crust and chill while preparing next layer.
- Whisk together pudding mix and milk and let get soft-set, about 5 minutes. Spread over cream cheese layer.
- Spread remaining (8 ounces) whipped topping over the top of the pudding. Garnish with chocolate shavings. Chill for at least 2 hours before serving. Store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
Recipe Notes
- Be sure the cream cheese is softened so it mixes smoothly with the sugar.
- Be sure to thaw the whipped topping for a few hours prior to making the recipe.
- You can use any cookie for the crust, and any pudding flavor for that layer.
- Can you make chocolate lasagna ahead of time? Make it up to 24 hours in advance. Store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days.
- Freshly whipped cream can be substituted for the cool whip, about 4 cups heavy whipping cream beaten to stiff peaks.
- You can use any fat content milk for the pudding but I do not recommend nondairy milk.
- You don’t have to remove the filling from the Oreos before you crush them.
Recipe Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 312kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 36mg | Sodium: 223mg | Potassium: 197mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 534IU | Calcium: 95mg | Iron: 4mg
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate
Can you just use two oreo cookie pie crusts for this recipe? I have all the ingredients except the oreo cookies but I have the pre-made crusts. Thanks!!
You could and make them as pie yes!
Thank you Ray for this recipe. I made a similar recipe. And, I can’t wait to try this one out. Which I can now Ttl for Gluten free Oreo’s for people like me with celiac disease or Gluten sensitivity. The world I’d a better place in with some ores and milk. And even better with a slice of lasagna cake yummy 😋
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