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Super decadent. Simple ingredients like cream cheese, chocolate sandwich cookies, and instant chocolate pudding are all you need. This dessert lasagna melts in your mouth, with rich chocolate and tangy cheesecake flavors in every bite. Quick. This chocolate lasagna takes 15 minutes of hands-on prep before it can chill in the fridge. If you’re looking for a fast and easy dessert for a special occasion, this is it. No baking. One more thing that makes this one of the best lasagna recipes ever? You don’t even need to bake it. This is a great dessert to make in the summer months when the last thing you want to do is turn on the oven. Make-ahead. I love a make-ahead friendly dessert like my creamy no-bake marshmallow chocolate pie and classics like this cherry pretzel dessert. This chocolate lasagna is another favorite treat to make in advance and bring to potlucks and parties. Those sweet, silky layers are always a hit!
Instead, all those irresistible no-bake ingredients are layered in a casserole dish (similar to how you’d layer a traditional lasagna) and chilled before serving.
Chocolate Sandwich Cookies – Like Oreos, or your favorite store-brand version. You can also use chocolate wafers, or replace the chocolate crust with a graham cracker crust instead. Butter – Melted before you start. You can use salted or unsalted butter. Cream Cheese – You’ll want to use the cream cheese that comes in bricks (not in a tub) and bring it to room temperature. This way it’s easier to mix with sugar for the filling. Whipped Topping – Pick up a tub of Cool Whip, or your preferred whipped topping. While frozen whipped toppings tend to be more stable, you can substitute Cool Whip with homemade whipped cream if you prefer. Chocolate Pudding – You’ll need a couple of boxes of instant chocolate pudding along with cold milk. Another option is to borrow the homemade pudding filling from my chocolate pudding pie. Chocolate Sauce – Optional, but recommended for an easy garnish! I also like to drizzle my chocolate lasagna with homemade fudge sauce or caramel sauce (let’s be honest, sometimes both).
Make the crust. First, you’ll crush up most of your Oreos with melted butter. Press the cookie crust mixture into the bottom of a 9×13” pan.
Make the cream cheese layer. Next, cream together the cream cheese and sugar, and fold in about 1 ½ cups of Cool Whip. Spread this cream cheese fluff all over your crust.
Add the pudding layer. Next, you’ll whip up the chocolate pudding, and spread this over the cream cheese layer.
Garnish and chill. Top your pudding layer with what’s left of the Cool Whip. Sprinkle over some extra crushed cookies, then cover and refrigerate your dessert lasagna for a few hours, or overnight. I give mine a drizzle with chocolate sauce right before serving.
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