No-Bake Peanut Butter Eclair Cake Recipe – peanut butter pudding, cool whip, and chocolate graham crackers layered and topped with chocolate frosting. It gets better the longer it sits in the fridge – it is just SO hard to wait to eat it. SOOO good. People go nuts over this easy dessert recipe!
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Pin This RecipeI have to give credit to Chicken Legs for this recipe. One of his favorite desserts is my Chocolate Éclair Cake. The last time I made it he suggested that we try a Peanut Butter Chocolate Éclair Cake. I happen to love peanut butter and chocolate, so I thought that was a fantastic idea!!
I made a few simple changes to the original recipe and we had our creation. It was absolutely delicious! We both loved it. This Chocolate Peanut Butter Eclair Cake is so light; it is hard to stop eating! I always make this the day before I want to serve it. It gets better the longer it sits in the fridge.
This cake is great for potlucks and parties. It makes a ton and is a great make-ahead dessert. I love to serve this when we have friends over for dinner. It always gets rave reviews!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Eclair Cake
Equipment:
Ingredients:
- 1 (14.4-oz) box chocolate graham crackers
- 2 (3¼-oz) boxes vanilla instant pudding
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 3½ cups milk
- 1 (8-oz) container Cool Whip, thawed
- 1 (16-oz) can chocolate frosting
Instructions:
- Spray the bottom of a 9×13 pan with cooking spray.
- Line the bottom of the pan with whole graham crackers.
- In bowl of an electric mixer, mix pudding with milk and peanut butter; beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Fold in whipped topping.
- Pour half the pudding mixture over graham crackers. Place another layer of whole graham crackers on top of pudding layer. Pour over remaining half of pudding mixture and cover with another layer of graham crackers.
- Heat the container of prepared frosting, uncovered in the microwave for 1 minute. Pour over the top of the cake. Refrigerate for at least 12 hours before serving.
Notes:
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Kroger has chocolate graham crackers. It’s their brand and the only place I found them.
Omg, made this today as a Halloween treat to bring to a party as I had all ingredients with the exception of the chocolate graham crackers, so I improvised and put a layer of Nutella on them as I layered the PB pudding and grahams! It has to be a hit because the PB Nutella combination is my favorite! I made my own chocolate frosting and and dying to dive in! I know from all of the comments, the longer you wait to have a slice the better…so we shall see. Thanks for sharing 😊
Anyone ever tried Nutter Butter layers instead of graham cracker?
I haven’t, but it sounds delicious. I love Nutter Butter cookies.
Can it be done the day before? Would love to make it for our board meeting at work
Yes
I couldn’t find chocolate graham crackers anywhere. Thought about trying the Teddy Grahams, but since I had a family-sized brownie mix on hand, I baked it (adding the extra egg to make it cake-like instead of fudgy). Then I broke it up into very small pieces and used it to make the 3 layers of chocolate. I didn’t have the frosting on hand, and didn’t want to use ganache since I didn’t have a solid top layer, so I drizzled Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup over the top. I know it ended up being “bake” instead of “no-bake”, but it turned out very well. Hubby had a double first helping! This is a really good recipe, and I will keep my eyes peeled for the chocolate grahams, because I’m sure it will be delicious made per the recipe. All of my chocolate/peanut butter lovers thank you!
Everyone loves this cake. Making tomorrow for Christmas but I can’t find chocolate graham crackers aanywhere. So I bought choc teddy grahams and oreos. Not sure yet which to use yet. Maybe I’ll make it half and half and see what we like best. Happy Christmas y’all!
How did it come out, I have a really hard time finding Chocolate gram crackers myself.
I used the chocolate teddy grahams. Tasted delicious but didn’t look as pretty. 🙂
Sounds great!
I love to make desserts and get comments. Everybody raved about this dessert so I was impressed and yes you do need to wait the 12 hours at least for the crackers to get soft.
Everything you said it is! My husband loves it!
It’s delicious! I only microwaved my frosting for one minute and not two like it says. It poured right on. And it is better the second day. 😊