📋 No Bake Cream Puff Dessert Recipe

cream puff dessert in a glass dish with plates and a bowl of cream puffs in background

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📋 No Bake Cream Puff Dessert Recipe

If you love cream puffs, you are going to LOVE this No Bake Cream Puff Dessert! With layers of creamy filling on a pastry crust, it's like a dreamy cream puff in dessert form! And my recipe is much easier because it's NO BAKE!

Course desssert

Cuisine American, Canadian

Keyword cake, cream puff, dessert

Special Diet Vegetarian

Prep Time 15

Total Time 15

Servings servings

Calories 560kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Equipment

Ingredients

4 large croissants
8 oz cream cheese, softened
3 ½ cups cold milk
6.8 ounces instant vanilla pudding mix (2 -3.4 ounce packages)
3 cups whipping cream (heavy cream)
2 tablespoon white granulated sugar

Garnish

Chocolate sundae syrup
cream puffs (optional)

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

HEADS UP! This recipe needs to be refrigerated at least 8 hours (up to 24 hrs, ideally) before serving.

Cut croissants in half. Then line the bottom of a 9X13 pan with ½ pieces of croissant, soft side up.
In a large bowl, beat the milk and pudding mixes for 2 minutes on low until it starts to thicken.
Beat in softened cream cheese.
Beat cream cheese and pudding until smooth.
In a separate mixing bowl, beat whipped cream to soft peaks, then add sugar
Beat to stiff peaks
Drop pudding mixture in large spoonfuls over croissants (this will prevent crumbs from getting mixed in with the pudding mixture).
Spread pudding evenly.
Drop whipped cream by spoonful over pudding mixture.
Spread whipped cream evenly.
Store in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours/overnight to 24 hours *This step is important because the crust needs time to soften!*
Just before serving, add cream puffs and drizzle with chocolate syrup. *Add more cream puffs as garnish, to your preference, if you desire.

Notes

💭Top tip

It's critical that this dessert sits overnight (at least) and even better if you make it a day in advance (24 hours) The pastry needs a chance to soften, so if you try to eat it earlier, the pastry will be tougher.

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