The BEST Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe! With a pre-made crust, instant chocolate pudding, and creamy whipped topping, this Chocolate Cream Pudding Pie will have you coming back for more!
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Pin RecipeAnytime I’m looking for a fast, easy, and delicious pie recipe, this Instant Pudding Chocolate Pie is calling my name. The chocolate flavor and added chocolate chips are a tasty combination not to be missed.
I’m a huge fan of pudding pies. I was a bit skeptical at first but after I made my first one, I knew that these creamy pies were a game-changer in the kitchen. I tend to make these pies using a premade crust during the spring and summer months because they have a wonderful flavor, are easy to bake, and are no-fail!
This Chocolate Cream Pie would be the perfect addition to your Easter dinner or summer fun family BBQ as well. There’s just something about a chocolate dessert like this pie, a Chocolate Pudding Pie, or Chocolate Cobbler that makes everyone happy instantly.
This simple no-bake chocolate pie will have you loving how fast you’ll be cutting into your very first piece.
Ingredients to make Chocolate Pie Recipe
See recipe card below this post for ingredient quantities and full instructions.
- Frozen Pie Crust – I love using Pilsbury Frozen Deep Dish Pie crusts for this option because they always turn out perfect.
- Instant Chocolate Pudding – Instant is the way to go. Fast and always delicious.
- Whipped Topping – This gives that extra creamy texture and is the perfect topping. It’s also a key ingredient in my Cool Whip Pie!
- Chocolate Chips – Put on just a few or layer them thick!
How To Make Chocolate Creme Pie
- Bake the crust – Bake your frozen pie crust according to the directions on the package. Allow to cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
- Make the pie filling – To a large bowl, combine the instant chocolate pudding and milk. Mix well. Add 1 cup of whipped topping and fold to mix. Pour mixture into the crust to chill.
- Add toppings – You can add on the whipped topping and chocolate chips either before you chill the pie OR right before serving. I normally do it right before serving if I’m not taking it anywhere.
Tips or Variations
- If you’d rather not use a frozen pie crust, you can make and bake your own crust or use a graham cracker crust as well. I even like a refrigerated crust! I even think that an Oreo crust would be super good here, too!
- Use whole milk or 2% for this recipe. Skim milk tends to get watery in the pudding. You need a higher fat content milk to get a creamy consistency.
- Make certain that you chill the pie before serving for perfect slices of pie.
FAQS
You can. If you want to save this pie for later, you can add it to your freezer in a freezer-safe storage container. When you’re ready to eat, just place it in the fridge or on the counter to let it unthaw before cutting. Or enjoy frozen for a frozen summer treat! I think that freezing this chocolate cream pie with pudding sounds divine!
This is why this pie recipe rocks. Any flavor of the instant pudding will work so have fun changing up the flavor of the pie and the topping!
Here are a few of our favorite pudding pie flavors:
Banana Cream
Vanilla
Pistachio
Coconut
Butterscotch
Cheesecake
Looking for more easy dessert recipes, here are some of our favorites!
- Coconut Cream Cake
- No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie
- Coconut Cream Pie
- Oreo Dessert
- Strawberry Dump Cake
- Cherry Pie
- Homemade Brownies
- French Silk Pie
Chocolate Cream Pie
Ingredients
- 1 frozen pie crust
- 2 cups cold milk whole milk is best
- 2 packages 3.4 ounces instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 carton 8 ounces frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided
- 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Bake frozen pie crust as directed on the package and allow to cool on a rack while you prepare the pudding filling
- In a large bowl, beat milk and pudding on low speed for 2 minutes. Fold in 1 cup whipped topping. Pour into crust and chill for atleast 2 hours before seriving.
- Before serving, top with remaining whipped topping and chocoalte chips.
Super easy and super delicious! I made it just for fun while hanging out with some friends and it was gone in a matter of minutes once fully prepared. Everyone loved it and wanted more. I should have made two.
We’re so happy to hear this, Sarah! Thank you for trying it out and taking the time to leave a review. 😊 Making two is never a bad idea!
made this recipe and followed instructions EXACTLY and it is incredibly runny. as soon as you cut one piece the pudding fills the void of the missing piece. I let it chill for 4 hours. And yes, I used INSTANT pudding.
Great recipe, very easy, my family loved it
We’re so happy to hear it, Kim!
I made this pie today for Thanksgiving but it did not turn out at all. I have checked the recipe many times and I did as the recipe is written, but the pie is still liquid. So disappointed. Now, thanks to this, I need to go get a desert for Thanksgiving. Groceries cost to much to throw away. 😡
So disappointed.
Did you buy the cook and serve kind of pudding? I done that before and it was still liquid.
Can you use real whipped cream???
We don’t recommend it as it’s likely to become grainy.
1 cup of whipped cream is 8oz. I believe you need another recipe revision to correct that error. You can’t call for one cup and also divide an eight ounce container. None the less, thank you for posting the recipe. We can’t wait for it to chill.
The recipe calls for an 8 oz container of frozen whipped topping, as in “Cool Whip”, and I believe that contains three cups of whipped topping. It’s just very lightweight. Hope it turned out for you. We love it.
I’ve made this chocolate pie three times now and it is delicious, now I can make my favorite pie which is chocolate since I was a kid anytime. My family loves it too. Love it and so so easy to make, hardest part is waiting until it is chilled. 😊
Just use a little more milk than what the recipe says. You can probably make it work. That is what I would do.
I want to make this for our Legion dinner. Is two cups of milk right for 2 boxes of pudding?
Making this recioe for the first time, I have a bigger box of pudding mix 5.8 oz instead of suggested smaller in your recipe, what do I do?
Just use a little more milk than what the recipe says. You can probably make it work. That is what I would do.
Yes, it works just a little more milk it came out great.😊
How much more milk
I made this pie. It came out great everyone loved it. Thank you.
We’re so glad! Thank you for trying it out, Donna!
Made it,2 cups of milk is not enough, I don’t recommend this recipe< it’s super thick no flavor because nits Too Thick.
Yes, I couldn’t find the right size box either.
My pie seems a little thinner than it should be not sure where I went wrong
How long do you chill the pie for?
At least 2 hours before serving. I’ve updated the directions. Thanks!
I’ve made this many times I use a Graham cracker crust and I add toffee bits to my pudding mixture. and toffeee bits on top with chocolate syrup!
Great, easy recipe! No changes needed. Thank you! Made this for Pi day tomorrow.
We’re so glad you enjoyed it, Tiffany!
Shouldn’t this be 4 cups of milk with 2 packages of instant pudding?
No it shouldn’t be. You are making a thicker pie filling and not normal pudding.
I’m using sugar free pudding, small box is 1.4 oz and large is 3.9. Which one should I use? Help!