Gluten Free Dessert – No Bake Eclair Cake

The warm temps are here and I am trying out some cool gluten free dessert recipes. My stepmom made an Éclair Cake one Sunday while we were visiting. I fell in love. In my opinion it’s a great marriage of creamy, chocolaty, and crunchy all in one EASY to make, no bake gluten free dessert.

 Gluten Free Éclair Cake Dessert

My stepmom made the recipe sound super easy, so I went online and found a recipe – adapted to be Gluten Free of course!

Here is my version of a Gluten Free Dessert Éclair Cake

Ingredients

1 large package Vanilla Instant Pudding mix dry

3 ½ cups whole 2 packages graham crackers (I used gluten free)

1 bag of chocolate chips (I like semi-sweet but I’ve made this with milk chocolate and it’s good, too.)

Gluten Free Éclair Cake Dessert

Instructions

I start by layering some graham crackers in the bottom of my 9×13” pan.

Gluten Free Éclair Cake Dessert

Then I whip up the pudding with 3 cups of milk and set it aside to firm up.

Pour the chocolates into a double boiler and let them get nice and melted. Add the remaining milk to the chocolate mixture, stirring it in to make a sort of ganache with the chocolate.

While the chocolates are melting, fold the whipped topping carefully into the pudding mixture so you can see streaks of white and yellow throughout.

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Spread on a layer of the pudding-whipped topping mix on the graham cracker layer. Add another layer of graham crackers on top of that. Another layer of pudding and whip. Another layer of crackers. Do this until you’ve nearly reached the top of the pan.

Gluten Free Éclair Cake Dessert

Then add a final layer of crackers and pour on the chocolate.

Gluten Free Éclair Cake Dessert

I take a spatula and smear it to the areas that gravity hasn’t pulled it to, but it should spread on its own pretty well. Pop this in the fridge for at least 4 hours to get the graham crackers a little soggy and the chocolate time to firm up.

Enjoy!

8 thoughts on “Gluten Free Dessert – No Bake Eclair Cake

  • August 9, 2013 at 5:12 pm
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    Looks like the ingredient list is missing the whipped topping~

  • June 12, 2013 at 1:22 am
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    This looks heavenly! I am definitely going to make this! At 27 weeks pregnant I crave sweets so this is perfect and easy to make lol

  • June 11, 2013 at 1:08 pm
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    Looks delicious! Who doesn’t love pudding, graham crackers and chocolate???

  • June 11, 2013 at 1:05 pm
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    Looks yummy – I love that the old icebox cakes are coming back into style this year!

  • June 11, 2013 at 11:54 am
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    looks great! And love that it is so simple

  • June 11, 2013 at 10:31 am
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    It looks delicious, and its always good to have more gluten free dessert recipes.

  • June 11, 2013 at 12:15 am
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    Delish and easy I’ll have to try it!

  • June 10, 2013 at 11:51 pm
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    This looks absolutely delicious. I’ll have to try it for my little one’s birthday in August. Have a few friends and family that would appreciate a desert just for them.

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