Cream Puff Dessert

By Addie

With its light, golden crust and yummy filling, this creamy cake is a definite crowd-pleaser. Everyone will ask for seconds. —Kim Wallace, Dennison, Ohio

Ingredients

• FILLING:
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup butter, cubed
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 4 eggs
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• 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
• 2 1/2 cups milk
• 3 packages (3.3 ounces each) instant white chocolate or vanilla pudding mix
• 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed

Preparation

Step 1

In a large saucepan, bring water and butter to a boil. Add flour all at once and stir until a smooth ball forms. Remove from the heat; let stand for 5 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Continue beating until smooth and shiny.

Transfer to a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Bake at 400° for 22-26 minutes or until puffed and golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack.

For filling, in a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, milk and pudding mixes until smooth. Spread over the crust; refrigerate for 20 minutes. Spread with whipped topping. Chill until serving. Yield: 15 servings.
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REVIEWS:

I have made this recipe and shared it with many friends. My recipe calls for putting a drizzle of magic shell chocolate topping on top ... Enjoy!

This was good but the crust got soggy. Next time I will not put the filling in until I get ready to serve it.

Reviewed on Nov. 04, 2011 by kltharp

Taste just like a cream puff from the store and was super easy to make. Everyone loved it and wanted the recipe.

This dessert always gets rave reviews! It is light and delicious! Great in the summer!

I've made this twice now & it is a HUGE hit with all who tasted it. It's so much easier than making individual cream puffs. I did melt a bag of chocolate chips (with a little half & half) & put that as the 1st layer on the pastry. For me, a cream puff needs chocolate!

Big hit at Labor Day Picnic, one family member wanted me to make another one right then, he would buy the ingrients.

Loved it. It was very easy and delicious.

Absolutely loved it, have also tried it using different flavors of pudding mixes & all are good

My husband said this was "good for not having chocolate in it". It was very easy and very good. Next time I will try it with chocolate pudding for my chocoholic husband.

I would make it again but a different flavor of pudding. I am not a huge fan of cream cheese or its taste, I think perhaps regular chocolate or perhaps pineapple or banana, the crust is very elegant, however, my husband ate the whole thing by himself.


I have made this for my boss @ Christmas and for friends for birthdays and My kids like it also. Thanks for a super recipe!!!

Fantastic...the picture made it look like a difficult dessert, it was so easy! TasteS like it looks - "dreamy!"

One of my favorite desserts!

This was good, but no one was really that crazy about it in my house. I was nervous about the crust not having any sugar, but it was actually fine without it.

I have made this dessert many times and everyone raves about how good it is.

We loved it, i made the whipped cream, and maybe next time i will make the filling from scratch, but my family loved it :) Thanks for another great recipe!

Definitely will make again and again and again. Easy and OHHHHH SO Delicious.

This is the third time I've made this recipe and it's always a big hit! This time I tried the Instant Coconut Cream pudding and sprinkled toasted coconut on top! MMMMMMM!!!

Reviewed on Dec. 04, 2010 by monti57

I made this for my last party - What a hit! I did not use whipped topping, I added whipped cream on top if desired. A little shaved chocolate really dresses it up.

Perfect!!!

I could NOT make a ball form out of the dough. What am I doing wrong?? It doesn't seem that 1 cup of flour is enough with 1 cup of water and 1/2 cup butter. I brought it just to a boil added the 1 cup of flour and stirred and stirred and no dough formed. I added more flour ...still no ball...then it seemed to darken up like it was scorched(and smelled scorched). What do I do?

AWESOME! Everyone loves this...I used cook & serve pudding and ended up with too much like one of the previous posts mentions so next time I just won't pour it all in, but I think it made the cream cheese melt better when stirring it into the hot pudding. This is definitely a keeper!

EASY AND DELICIOUS!

I am getting ready to make this for the third time since I got my magazine. It is so easy to make and like eating air. I just love it.

Reviewed on Sep. 21, 2010 by BetsyAnnMarie

I've been making this dessert for over 30 years, but I have never greased the pan before I add the pastry dough. I also drizzle chocolate syrup over the top before serving.

Very good! Wouldn't need the cream cheese in the filling if trying to cut down the calories.

LOVE this. And so does everyone that has eaten it.

My family loved this dessert! It tasted best after being chilled over night, and still tasted good when they ate the last piece 3 days later!

OMG, I have made this twice now. My Dad went bonkers over it. I made it again for a family reunion. This will stay in my go-to file, it is sooo good. (I varied the puddings, used 1 cheesecake, 1 white chocolate and 1 vanilla, scrumptious!