No-bake Cookies' N Cream Cake

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons instant coffee powder (espresso)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 3/4 cups milk
• 4 (3 1/2 ounce) packages cheesecake flavor instant pudding and pie filling mix
• 1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided
• 1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided
• 39 chocolate wafer cookies (from 1 9 ounce pkg.)
• chocolate shavings (optional)
• additional cocoa powder (optional)
• strawberry (optional)

Recipe

• 1 stir cocoa powder, coffee powder and vanilla into 1/4 cup water until coffee powder is dissolved.
• 2 whisk milk into pudding mixes until smooth.
• 3 fold in 12 ounce whipping topping.
• 4 arrange 13 cookies in bottom of 8" springform pan, breaking to fill as necessary.
• 5 brush with 1/3 of espresso mixture.
• 6 spread with half of pudding.
• 7 repeat with 13 cookies, 1/3 of espresso mixture and the remaining pudding.
• 8 top with remaining cookies; brush with remaining espresso mixture.
• 9 cover with plastic wrap; refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.
• 10 remove side from pan.
• 11 spread top and side of cake with remaining whipped topping.
• 12 garnish with chocolate shavings, cocoa powder and strawberries, if desired.
• 13 ready to serve in 30 minutes + overnight.