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Mini Boston Creme Pies

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My husband’s favorite desserts are pie and pudding. Even for his birthday he’d rather have pie than a birthday cake. So while flipping through a book called Simple Desserts Made Special With Cool Whip, I decided to combine a couple of the recipes, and make these little creme pies with puff pastry. They turned out AWESOME!

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Mini Boston Creme PieI had never used puff pastry before, because I was intimidated by it, but it was easy to use, and added so much to the dessert.
Here is what you need:


1 puff pastry sheet
One 4 serving size box of instant french vanilla pudding
1 cup of cool whip thawed, more for topping the dessert
1 1/4 cups of milk
1/2 cup of chocolate chips
1 Tablespoon of shortening

Lay out your puff pastry sheet after it has thawed.

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Gently cut through it to make 9 squares.  Separate the pieces and place on a cookie sheet, and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
Let cool and slice in half through the middle.
Whisk up the pudding and milk, then gently fold in the cool whip.
You can do this step ahead of time and refrigerate the pudding mixture.
Then take a large spoonful of the pudding, and dollop it on half of each pastry shell. Keep in mind you need to spread it out over 9, unless you want very generous amounts of pudding, on a fewer number of pastry shells.
Top each with the other half of the pastry shell, and you are ready for the chocolate sauce.  Melt your chocolate chips and shortening on low heat, till it will drizzle off of a spoon.

Mini Boston Creme PiesDrizzle over your pastry, and serve like this, or give it a dollop of whipped cream.

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Serves: 9
Ingredients
  • 1 puff pastry sheet
  • One 4 serving size box of instant french vanilla pudding
  • 1 cup of cool whip thawed, more for topping the dessert
  • 1¼ cups of milk
  • ½ cup of chocolate chips
  • 1 Tablespoon of shortening
Instructions
  1. Lay out your puff pastry sheet after it has thawed.
  2. Gently cut through it to make 9 squares. Separate the pieces and place on a cookie sheet, and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
  3. Let cool and slice in half through the middle.
  4. Whisk up the pudding and milk, then gently fold in the cool whip.
  5. You can do this step ahead of time and refrigerate the pudding mixture.
  6. Then take a large spoonful of the pudding, and dollop it on half of each pastry shell. Keep in mind you need to spread it out over 9, unless you want very generous amounts of pudding, on a fewer number of pastry shells.
  7. Top each with the other half of the pastry shell, and you are ready for the chocolate sauce. Melt your chocolate chips and shortening on low heat, till it will drizzle off of a spoon.

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Doesn’t it look scrumptious? Let me tell you, it is! These refrigerate very nicely too if you aren’t serving them right away. My hubby loved this treat, and I really enjoyed working with puff pastry for the first time. It was so easy to use, and really added a lot of special-ness to the dessert.

Hope you enjoy!

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  10. Oh mercy!!! This is right up my alley! Thank you SO much for sharing! I just found you on TT&J! 🙂

    Nat from
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  15. Hi Margo,
    This is a seriously wonderful dessert. Your Mini Boston Creme Pies look awesome and I just love how easy you made it look. Hope you are having a great week end and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
    Come Back Soon!
    Miz Helen

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  28. This looks like a GREAT and easy recipe. I know my hubby will love this! He’s going away for a few days this weekend and I think I’ll surprise him with it when he comes home Sunday night. Love your blog!!!!

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  29. My favorite pie, in single serve packets. Love this idea. I have always been intimidated about trying to make the usual pie form so I always buy it. Now I can definately do this. Thanks. Visiting from Tasty Tuesday.

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