Working On It: "Best thing since Robert Redford" Desert

Let me warn you before you make this... it is THE BEST desert and it can be dangerous! It consists of four amazingly good layers: a graham cracker crust, then a cream cheese layer, next a chocolate pudding layer, and finally topped with cool whip. YUM. Hint: You can use any flavor of pudding to mix it up. I prefer chocolate, but vanilla would also be good for those who dont like chocolate. Or for a banana cream pie desert, use Banana pudding! That sounds so good, its on my to do list for the future.

My mom has made this for years and would bring it to family get togethers and everyone always seems to look forward to the desert we call "Robert Redford." Well. I finally got the recipe from my mom and made it for the first time last night. It turned out AMAZING if I do say so myself. I am bringing it with me this weekend so that my family can eat it because if I keep it in the house God knows I'll end up eating the whole pan myself! Anywho. Lets get down to it.

<----- Those are the main ingredients, but not all of them. The list of ingredients you need are:

For the Crust:
2 1/2 cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
2/3 cup melted butter
6 tbs sugar

Cream Cheese layer:
1 block of Cream Cheese
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbs milk
1/2 cont. Cool Whip

Pudding layer:
3 1/4 cups of milk
2 boxes of chocolate pudding

Cool Whip layer:
1 container of Cool Whip

And now the fun part. I was first intimidated by all of the layers, thinking it would be a lot of work. Nope it was actually very easy to make! (And I am by no means an experienced cook!)

Directions for the crust:

Mix together the graham cracker crumbs and sugar
Stir in the melted butter. (I used a fork and that worked pretty well)
Pat to the bottom of an ungreased 9x13 pan
Put in the fridge while you make the next layer

Cream Cheese Layer:

Soften the block of cream cheese. (Using a hand mixer is the best way to do this)
Mix in 1/4 cup of sugar
Mix in 2 tbs milk
Mix well until light and fluffy
FOLD in 1/2 container of Cool Whip
Spread on Top of crust, put back in fridge

Cream cheese layer

Pudding Layer:

Slowly add both packages of pudding to the 3 1/4 cups of milk, while stirring
When pudding is set up, spread on top of the cream cheese layer

Cool Whip Layer:

This is the 'easy' part

Spread 1 container of Cool whip on top of the pudding
Done!

It will look something like this picture once completed. Now I know its tempting to dig right in, but it needs to sit in the fridge for a while in order for it to set up properly. I put it in there overnight like my mom usually does and that gives the best results.

If you dont wait for it to set up, it will still taste the same, it just will be ALOT messier. :)