This dessert goes against all my rules. Like you can’t combine mixes and packaged foods and get something good. I needed a last minute dessert to whip up quickly when we were having friends over for a BBQ. I had spent most my day making and smoking sausage and smoking chicken, and had totally forgotten to make a dessert.
Thumbing through my recipes I saw this oldie and remembered how good it was when I was a kid and thought the kids would like it too. In our family it was called “Ute’s Yummy Oreo Dessert” since it came from my Mom’s friend Ute. It’s the perfect summer dessert since you don’t have to turn the oven on and it’s served cold. Maybe I’m just nostalgic about this one, but it still seems pretty darn good to me, and everyone else loved it as well.
My Lucy had a lot of fun helping me make it, and I think at 5 years old she could almost make this one by herself it’s so easy!
YUMMY OREO DESSERT
1 pkg oreo cookies
1/2 cup butter, melted
2 small or 1 large vanilla instant pudding (mixed up according to package directions)
8 oz box cream cheese
1 medium cool whip
Set aside 12 of the oreos, then finely chop the rest.
Mix with the butter and spread in a 9 by13 inch baking pan (or divide between individual containers)
Mix the prepared pudding and the cream cheese together until smooth, then add the cool whip, mixing until smooth again.
Spread over the top of the oreo crust, then chop the remaining 12 oreos (or however many are left at this point) 😉 and sprinkle on top.
Chill in the refrigerator for at least a couple of hours, up to overnight.
Ingredients
- 1 pkg oreo cookies
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 2 small or 1 large vanilla instant pudding (mixed up according to package directions)
- 8 oz box cream cheese
- 1 medium cool whip
Instructions
- Set aside 12 of the oreos, then finely chop the rest.
- Mix with the butter and spread in a 9 by13 inch baking pan (or divide between individual containers)
- Mix the prepared pudding and the cream cheese together until smooth, then add the cool whip, mixing until smooth again.
- Spread over the top of the oreo crust, then chop the remaining 12 oreos (or however many are left at this point) 😉 and sprinkle on top.
- Chill in the refrigerator for at least a couple of hours, up to overnight.
