Candy Bar Pie

Total Time: 4 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 4 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 cups cold milk
• 2 (3 1/2 ounce) packages instant chocolate pudding mix
• 1 (9 ounce) graham cracker pie crust
• 1 (16 ounce) container cool whip, thawed
• 6 ounces hershey's chocolate bars with almonds, chopped (any candy bars with nuts)
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened**
• 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 mix cream cheese and 2 tablespoon of the milk and vanilla in a bowl with wire whisk until smooth.
• 2 gently stir in 2 cups cool whip.
• 3 add chopped up candy bars (save a little for top of pie): set aside **hint use a hand chopper like the pampered chef one--it makes it so much easier to chop!** or freeze first then smash with mallet to break up.
• 4 pour remaining milk in a large bowl add puddings and mix until smooth, should be really thick.
• 5 spoon 1 1/2 cup of pudding into crust and spread evenly.
• 6 stir in 1/2cup of the cool whip into remaining pudding and whip to incorporate. fold in another 1/4 c cool whip to make fluffy.
• 7 spread cream cheese mixture into crust on top of pudding.
• 8 spread other pudding mixture on top of candy bar mixture.
• 9 top with some chopped candy bars and garnish edges with cool whip if desired.
• 10 refrigerate at least 4 hours serve chilled.
• 11 **to soften cream cheese, microwave for 15 seconds on high.