No Bake Chocolate Cream Pie with Chocolate Wafer Crust

Ingredients Needed

To make this super easy chocolate cream pie recipe, you'll need the following ingredients.

For the chocolate wafer crust, you'll need:

• Chocolate Wafers - approximately 28 wafers are needed. I like to use Nabisco's brand.
• Granulated Sugar - only 1 tablespoon is needed.
• Unsalted Butter - 5 tablespoons. The butter gets melted, then added to the pie crust mixture

You can swap out the chocolate wafers for the same amount of Oreos.

For the chocolate cream pie, you'll need:

• Cream Cheese - only 8 ounces (1 package) is needed, but it needs to be softened and at room temperature
• Granulated Sugar
• Vanilla Extract
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• Milk - any kind can be used. I used 1%.
• Cool Whip - 8 ounces (1 container) is needed for the pie filling, but if you'd like to use this as a garnish, I recommend getting 2.
• Additional garnishes like chocolate curls, chocolate wafer crumbs, or chocolate syrup

How to Make No Bake Chocolate Cream Pie

To make the chocolate wafer crust, it's best to have a food processor, but if you don't that's okay! You can easily crush up the chocolate wafers in a plastic bag using a rolling pin or meat tenderizer (something hammer-like and heavy is good!).

Once you add the melted butter and granulated sugar, the chocolate wafer crust should be like the texture of wet sand. It should easily form to the inside pie plate that you press it into as well. You can use your clean, washed hands to press the chocolate wafer crust into the pie plate or you can use a spatula or the bottom of a measuring cup. I prefer to use the measuring cup because it smooths and level the pie crust out nicely.

Place the chocolate wafer crust in the freezer for a minimum of 30 minutes. Alternatively, you can bake it for 8-10 minutes at 325ºF. If you bake it, you will need to let it cool before adding the pie filling.

The number one important tip to remember with the chocolate cream pie filling is to make sure your cream cheese is softened and at room temperature. If it's the slightest bit cold or firm, you will end up with little tiny annoying lumps in your filling.

You can read a few helpful tips on how to fix those lumps over on my S'mores Cheesecake recipe page.

Recommended Baking Tools

You'll need only 1, 9 inch pie plate to make this recipe. It can be metal, glass, or ceramic. You'll also need a small food processor, mixing bowls, handheld mixer or stand mixer, spatula, and offset spatula.