This super-easy chocolate cream pie is a no-bake dream with a crunchy pecan crust and a rich, creamy chocolate cream cheese filling. Serve up a ton of flavor without a ton of work!
Chocolate desserts are always on every holiday or special occasion table, from fancy peanut butter s’mores brownies to a simple chocolate cream cheese dessert.
This easy, no-bake chocolate cream pie makes the holidays better, letting you serve up so much chocolaty flavor without a ton of work or being stuck in the kitchen!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Limited Ingredients: You’ll only need a handful of simple ingredients for this pie.
- Super Easy: All you have to do is mix, pour, and chill. That’s it!
- Super Rich and Creamy: The filling is made with pudding, cream cheese, and evaporated milk, resulting in an incredibly rich, creamy texture.
- Deep Chocolaty Flavor: We deepened the chocolate flavor with added dark cocoa powder.
- A Great Make-Ahead Option: This freezer-friendly pie can be made in advance and frozen until ready to use.
Key Ingredients
You’ll find a complete list of ingredients and their exact amounts in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Cream Cheese: Cream cheese adds richness and a nice tang, complementing the sweet ingredients well.
- Chocolate Pudding: Chocolate pudding thickens the pie as well as adding a chocolaty flavor.
- Dark Cocoa and Chocolate Chips: Dark cocoa and mini chocolate chips give the pie even deeper chocolate flavor.
- Evaporated Milk: Evaporated milk adds sweet flavor and extra richness to the pie filling.
- Pecan Pie Crust: A premade pecan crust adds a uniquely sweet and nutty flavor to the pie.
Variations
- Crust: You can use any variety of pre-made crust you prefer. They’ll all work.
- White Chocolate Pie: Use white chocolate pudding and white chocolate chips.
- Double Chocolate Pie: Use white chocolate chips with the chocolate cream cheese filling.
How to Make Chocolate Cream Pie
- Beat the cream cheese in a large bowl until smooth. Then, beat in the milk and cocoa powder.
- Beat the pudding and evaporated milk in a medium bowl until thick and combined.
- Beat the pudding mixture into the cream cheese mixture until combined. Then, stir in the mini chocolate chips.
- Spoon the filling into the crust, cover, and chill until ready to serve. Add homemade whipped cream before serving, if desired.
Expert Tips
- Fully soften your cream cheese for easy mixing and the smoothest, richest filling texture.
- Be sure to use instant pudding. Cook-and-serve pudding will not set.
- Your chocolate mixture will be extremely thick. Don’t worry. It’s supposed to be that way!
- We recommend chilling the pie overnight for the best flavor and texture.
Chocolate Cream Pie FAQs
If your chocolate cream pie is grainy, you most likely didn’t adequately soften and beat your cream cheese. Softening the cream cheese is key to avoiding a grainy texture caused by small unmixed bits in the filling.
You can refrigerate this pie for up to four days, tightly covered. Wrap a whole pie in a double layer of plastic wrap and a layer of foil and freeze for up to a month.
While we recommend chilling this pie overnight, you can serve it after a couple of hours in the fridge, if necessary.
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Chocolate Cream Pie (Easy No-Bake Recipe)
Ingredients
Chocolate Cream Pie
- (2) 8 ounce cream cheese, room temperature
- ½ cup whole milk
- ⅛ cup special dark cocoa powder
- 3.4 ounce instant chocolate pudding
- 5 ounce evaporated milk
- ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
- 9- inch pecan premade pie crust
Homemade Whipped Cream
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Chocolate Cream Pie
- In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth, approximately 3 minutes.
- Add milk and cocoa powder. Beat until combined.
- In a medium bowl, beat chocolate instant pudding and evaporated milk for 2 minutes. The mixture will be very thick.
- Add pudding mixture into the cream cheese mixture. Beat until combined.
- Stir in mini chocolate and add to pie crust. Chill until ready to serve.
- Optional: top with homemade whipped cream or cool whip, if desired.
Homemade Whipped Cream
- In a mixing bowl, using an electric hand mixer, beat heavy whipping cream, sugar, and vanilla until stiff peaks form.
- Using a piping bag or gallon size Ziplock baggie, pipe the whipped cream on top of the chocolate filling around the edges, and enjoy.
Notes
- Fully soften your cream cheese for easy mixing and the smoothest, richest filling texture.
- Be sure to use instant pudding. Cook-and-serve pudding will not set.
- Your chocolate mixture will be extremely thick. Don’t worry. It’s supposed to be that way!
- We recommend chilling the pie overnight for the best flavor and texture.
I really love the chocolate chips folded into the pudding for the pie. It gives it such a nice pop of extra chocolate flavor and a little texture. We loved it.
I love the fun little twist of chocolate chips in the filling. It’s such a great variation on the classic. Great recipe!
This is my favorite kind of dessert, especially during the holidays when everything is so hectic. I love this one!
I love easy and delicious, especially when it’s a holiday dessert. Great recipe!
This pie looks like chocolate heaven! It’s the kind of classic dessert that never goes out of style. I’m definitely craving a slice now!
I made this for dessert and it was so smooth and rich. The filling set perfectly without baking.
My mom loves chocolate cream pie and I haven’t made it for her before so when I saw this recipe I knew I had to give it a try! Came out like a dream!
I was so thrilled with this no bake pie recipe! It was easy to pull off and the flavors were rich and delish! Loved it.
I can never say NO to a chocolate cream pie haha.. This recipe simply rocks!
This is one of the easiest chocolate pies ever! My friends rave about it!