I often make this treat around Valentine’s Day, but its great anytime. I often make this refreshing, light treat during the winter months.
The hubs loves pudding – especially chocolate pudding. Often times, I will opt for cookies or ice cream over pudding, but I do like it. I had sort of forgot about pudding, and was recently looking for something a little more interesting than just adding milk. Then I remembered this wonderful, creamy, layered pudding I had many years ago. It is Layered Pudding that is often times called, “Lush.”
So there are many different variations of lush – lemon lush, banana lush, Butterfinger lush. I think of this as the most traditional type with a buttery pecan crust as the bottom layer. Next comes the cream cheese whipped cream layer. Then the chocolate pudding layer, and finally topped with whipped cream. This recipe makes an entire 9 x13 so that’s even better. It is an easy and impressive dessert!
- ½ c. unsalted butter, melted
- 1 c. flour
- ¾c. pecans, finely chopped, divided
- 1 (8 oz) package of cream cheese, softened
- 1 c. powdered sugar
- 1 (16 oz.) container of Cool Whip, divided
- 2 boxes instant chocolate pudding mix (3.4 each)
- 3c. milk
- Mix butter and flour together then add ½ c. of the chopped pecans. Pat into a 9 x 13 baking dish.
- Bake for 15 minutes at 375 degrees/
- Cool.
- In a medium bowl, mix cream cheese and powdered sugar together, then stir ½ of the Cool Whip.
- Spread this mixture over the cooled crust. Beat the pudding with milk and spread over the cream cheese. Top with the rest of the Cool Whip. Sprinkle the remaining ¼ c. of pecans.
- Refrigerate until serving time.
It is LUSH! Thank you for this reminder…lots of LUSH to come!
Love,
Mom