Chocolate Lush Layered Dessert

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 cup flour
• 3/4 cup walnuts or 3/4 cup pecans, finely chopped
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened to room temperature
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 (12 ounce) container cool whip
• 2 boxes instant chocolate pudding mix (any favorite flavor may be used)
• 1 cup milk (i use a little less than 21/2 cups for a firmer filling)

Recipe

• 1 mix butter and flour together then add the ground nuts ( save a few for the toping). pat into a 9x13 baking dish.
• 2 bake 20 minutes at 350:.
• 3 cool.
• 4 in a mixing bowl mix cream cheese and powdered sugar together, stir in 1/2 of the cool whip.
• 5 spread this mixture over cooled crust. beat the pudding with milk and spread over the cream cheese. top with the rest of the cool whip, sprinkle with the reserved nuts.
• 6 refrigerate until serving time. sometimes i drizzle melted chocolate or chocolate ice cream topping over the top, makes it look even more rich.