The best Mississippi Mud Pie recipe everyone will beg you to make again and again!
This Mississippi Mud Pie is a repeat request at our house! It’s wonderfully rich, crazy creamy, and outrageously delicious with 4 EASY layers of decadence! This heavenly Mud Pie recipe start with an Oreo cookie crust followed by a fudgey chocolate sauce, chocolate pudding, chocolate whipped cream and finally fluffy whipped cream! Of course, we garnish it all with crushed Oreos and raspberries and you can add nuts too if you like. No matter how you finish your Mud Pie, one thing is for certain, EVERYONE will will beg you for this sensational TO LIVE FOR recipe!
WHAT IS MUD PIE?
Mud Pie can be a lot of things! In the simplest definition, it is a chocolate-based pie with a crumbly cookie crust. As you might glean from the name, this pie was created in Mississippi and I love that it is just about my age – the first printed recipe circulated in 1975. Classic, now traditional recipes don’t have to be handed down from the old country to be worth it!
Those southern smarty-pants took the new food options (i.e. instant pudding and Oreos) and made something new and amazing – Mud Pie! Older versions of chocolate pies are around., however, the Mud Pie with cookie crust is a new and proud creation from the south.
The Mud Pie, commonly known as “Mississippi Mud Pie” after the dark goopy banks of the Mississippi river is also known as Chocolate Lasagna or Chocolate Delight. It is one of our favorite, most requested, most made desserts over at our house – and soon to be at yours!
I first found this epic Mud Pie Recipe years and years ago when Patrick requested a Mississippi Mud Pie for his birthday. I have been making an adapted version ever since and most recently made two pies for Easter because, I knew one pie just wouldn’t be enough.
The layer upon layer upon layer of creamy chocolate nestled in a buttery Oreo crust all topped with fluffy whipped topping is ridiculously cravilicious.
It’s rich and decadent yet somehow so light and luscious at the same time that I could easily eat half a pie. It’s a dessert that calls to you, nay, screams to you as it chills in the refrigerator, beckoning for its sensational chocolate layers to glide down your throat. It’s a chocolate lover’s dream come true.
Mississippi Mud Recipe ingredients
This Oreo mud pie calls for just eight simple ingredients. Seriously!! Here’s all you need to make this mud pie dessert:
How to Make Mississippi Mud Pie
Let’s take a closer look at how to make this recipe with step-by-step photos (full recipe in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post):
1. OREO LAYER
This Mud Pie recipe starts with a traditional Oreo base of crushed Oreos and butter that you bake for 8 minutes. A lot of recipes don’t bake their crust, but I find the simple step of baking a few minutes really solidifies the crust and prevents the crust from cracking and crumbling all over when cutting into the pie – thus this pie is almost no bake.
We want our crust nice and cool before adding our first chocolate layer, so feel free to make your crust up to a day in advance and cover with foil.
2. FUDGEY CHOCOLATE SAUCE LAYER
For Mud Pie Chocolate Layer 1, we create an easy chocolate sauce by melting chocolate, sweetened condensed milk and vegetable oil together until nice and silky then pour it into the cooled pie crust.
This creates a delectably rich, fudgy layer. It’s important that you cool your pie crust completely before adding this Layer or the crust will come up as you try and spread the chocolate. Also, you want your crust nice and cool so you can immediately pour the chocolate into the Crust before it thickens/hardens.
3. PUDDING LAYER
For Mud Pie Chocolate Layer 2, use a hand whisk to beat 2 boxes of pudding mix with some milk. You will use significantly less milk than with traditional pudding so the chocolate pudding will be quite thick, just how we want it. Spread half of this chocolate into the pie.
4. CHOCOLATE WHIPPED CREAM
For Mud Pie Chocolate Layer 3, mix half of a tub of Cool Whip with the remaining thick chocolate pudding to create a light and fluffy layer that you spoon into the crust.
5. COOL WHIP LAYER
For Mud Pie Layer 4, spread the remaining Cool Whip over the pie.
6. GARNISH
Finally, I loooooove to garnish my Mississippi Mud Pie with raspberries, and even serve with extra raspberries so I can devour a sweetly tart refreshing raspberry with rich, decadent chocolate in every bite. Highly recommend it. But above all, I highly recommend you make this Almost No Bake Mud Pie Recipe SOON!
It will scream to you.
Can I make Chocolate Mud Pie ahead of time?
Yup! Wrap your Mud Pie tightly and it keeps great in the fridge for several days – that is if you can keep yourself and everyone out of it!
Mud Pie Dessert Variations
There are more variations of Mississippi Mud Pie recipes as there are names – it comes in all shapes and sizes with varying layers and ingredients – some with ice cream, cream cheese or meringue, some with a cake or a brownie base, others with pudding, whipped cream and/or nuts, marshmallows, Oreos, but this version is our favorite. If you want to get creative, here are some fun options to customize your Mud Pie recipe:
Tips for the Best Mud Pie Recipe
How to store Mississippi Mud Pie
CAN I FREEZE MUD PIE?
Yes you can freeze Mud Pie, but with some caution. You can freeze the crust no problem. If its cooked it will freeze for up to 4 months, a non cooked crust will only last 2 months.
As for the Mud Pie you, can freeze it, but I would not freeze it with the cool whip topping as it can become soft and runny once defrosted. The texture of the overall pie is also not quite as creamy. once defrosted but the flavor remains the same.
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Ingredients
- 24 Oreos with filling finely crushed (I use my food processor)
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 4 oz. BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate roughly chopped
- 1/3 cup canned sweetened condensed milk
- 1 tablespoon Vegetable oil
- 2 (3.9 oz. each) pkgs. JELL-O Chocolate Flavor Instant Pudding
- 2 1/2 cups cold milk
- 1 (8 oz.) tub Cool Whip Whipped Topping thawed, divided
Instructions
Crust
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine Oreo crumbs and butter in a large bowl and stir until well combined. Pour mixture into a 9” pie plate and firmly press the crumbs into the bottom and up the sides to form an even layer.
Layer 1
- Bake for 8 minutes at 350 degrees F then COOL COMPLETELY before proceeding to the next step. You can bake your pie crust up to a day in advance then cover with foil once cooled.
- Add chocolate, sweetened condensed milk and vegetable oil to a medium bowl and microwave at 50% power at 30 second intervals until melted, stirring in between intervals. Stir until smooth then pour IMMEDIATELY into cooled pie crust. Smooth along the bottom of crust. Set aside.
Layer 2
- Beat pudding mixes and milk with a handheld whisk for 2 minutes (it will be thick). Spoon 1-½ cups over chocolate layer and smooth.
Layer 3
- To the remaining pudding, stir in HALF of the Cool Whip. Spread over pudding layer in crust.
Layer 4
- Top with remaining Cool Whip and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, best if overnight.
Garnish (optional)
- Garnish with raspberries (highly recommended!), crushed Oreos and shaved chocolate if desired.
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Recipe slightly adapted from KRAFT
Karen says
My husband loves Mississippi Mud. This is an interesting version. All that chocolate, he’s going to love it. We’ll be having it with Sunday supper.
Keiko says
Hi Jen! I made this tonight. We all loved it! So good! I loved the oreo crust! I used the 14 oz of sweetened condensed milk, and have lots of left over from making this recipe. Do you have any suggestion what I can do with the left over condensed milk besides licking it? 🙂
L says
My favourite use for sweetened condensed milk is to make a key lime pie!
Kristin says
My family and I love this simple, easy, but totally satisfying pie. I’ve made it 3 times in the past couple weeks, so I can use up more of the sweetened condensed milk. (I have a large family so 1 pie doesn’t last long.) It comes together quickly. It’s a pie that makes my picky eaters happy (nothing suspicious in it). This is one of t hose recipes that I’ll make often. Thanks!
Jen says
yessss! Thank you so so much for taking the time to comment Kristin! I am thrilled your family loves this Mud Pie so much and you have already made it 3 times – now that is the ultimate compliment!
L says
Hi Jen! I went to make this tonight, then realized in Canada Cool Whip comes in a 1 litre tub. EEK! How many cups of Cool Whip would I need for this pie?
Jen says
You will need about 3 cups, I hope that helps!
Jennifer Fulk says
Hi Jen! If you use a Ready Made Keebler Oreo Crust would you still bake it first?
Jen says
Nope, it is pre-baked so you are good to go!
Jennifer Fulk says
Hi I have an aluminum pie pan. Will the bake time for the crust be the same? I heard they bake faster.
Jen says
The same amount of time is okay because it is for such a short amount of time. If it was a whole pie then you might need to make adjustments.
Jenna says
Can I use fresh whipped cream instead of Cool Whip?
Jen says
Hi Jenna! Yes you can!