Make it sugar free ! I've been making this for years, and have found if you use sugar free pudding and sugar free cool whip it is just as yummy.

This recipe is amazing - never knew cream puffs were so easy to make. The dough turned out without a hitch - however, I didn't have the right size pan, so I just made couronnes (got the idea from a french cookbook) and then stuffed them with the filling (cut across and add filling). Oh, and my filling ended up having these tiny little lumps in it - maybe my cream cheese was cold, but it was delicious anyway. Update: I found that there was too much filling for the amount of pastry, but that is purely a personal preference.

The only reason I gave 4 stars to that recipe is because I didn't like the bottom part.It was dry.The filling was excellent,though.

i will change it to chocolate pudding next time. i found it too milky

Very good and easy. Thanks for the recipe. Will make again.

I made this for a family get together and everyone loved it. It was also really easy to make. I'll definitely make this again.

I did not make any changes to this recipe and it was excellent. It got rave reviews from my family!!!

I made this to take for our Easter dessert today and it was a hit!! Not heavy and a nice light dessert to have after a big meal! Have only three pieces left out of the pan and that will probably be gone before tomorrow! I made my puff shell last night and than made the filling this morning. Use room temperature cream cheese and slowly add the first cup of milk with the mixer going. You may still have a few small lumps, but nobody is picking over their piece to find them, they are too busy eating this delicious dessert!! Thanks for sharing!! YUMMY!!!!!

Amazingly wonderful! I followed the tip of adding a little hot fudge sauce to the shell before filling with the cream mixture. So easy, ans it looks very impressive. I also made it in two pie plates, and it turned out looking exactly like the photo! E X C E L L E N T !

This was AWESOME! I made it for Valentine's Day and it worked SO well. I used some melted chocolate between the puff and pudding layers. Next time I am going to use chocolate pudding...and a little less of it. I like the pictures of it in the pie dishes too. I think I'll also do that next time. Thanks for this recipe!

It looks pretty with the coolwhip and chocolate sauce, but got better reviews taste wise without them on top. Maybe because it tasted like a traditional cream puff that way and less like a dessert one would pick up at the supermarket. This was much preferred to traditional cream puffs around here. Cream puffs are hard to perfect (they fall all too easily, hard to keep it puffy) and the ratio is off with normal cream puffs because in order to get the desired amount of pudding with your puff, it's a mess to eat! All in all this recipe is a winner. I'd give it 5 stars without the coolwhip and chocolate, but I'm a basic cream puff kind of girl. One last note: from experience, this pudding mixture is the best I've come by as far as complimenting the "crust" so well. A "keeper" for sure!

Thank You For Posting This!!!! OMG it saved me. I have made this before using another recipe. Sometimes it turned out and other times it didn't.(The pastry shell). Well I thought I'd make this for my dad's birthday tomorrow. I have found it tastes better made the day before. In my recipe when you were cooking the flour mixture you added the eggs and cooked.Also greased the pan. Well in the oven it started to puff up in just one spot then fell and it was all flat when done. So I went to this site and found this recipe. It's in the oven as I type. It is all puffed up. Yippie. I have never put a chocolate layer before the pudding. But I an planning to now. I have always put the Magic Shell on top and we've like it. I will add this to the middle too. Thanks again

I made this for my husband for Valentine's Day. I ended up making two 9" pies instead with it. Turned out so tasty. Baked for 20 minutes. I let the cream cheese get to room temp before trying to blend it with the milk. used my hand mixer and had little/no clumps. I melted 2 herseys milk chocolate bars with alittle butter to make a "sauce" to put on the shell. After cooled the sauce hardened and gave alittle crunch to the pie...so good. It looked so professional and tasted so good. I took one of the pies to my inlaws since they watched my daughter so we could have dinner alone. My Mother in law said it was her favorite pie EVER and didnt want to share with anyone. and my husband who isnt a big dessert or sweets fan loved it.

I did make changes to give this a 5. I think it's WONDERFUL as a pie rather than a cake. (It makes 2 pie shells) I've renamed it Eclair Pie. I did as others did and used the chocolate from the "Eclairs II" recipe and spread it on the crust of the pie. Don't forget to make sure all the lumps are out of the cream cheese and only add a little milk before adding the rest. I totally omitted the whipped cream only because I'm not too fond of it. Deliciously creamy Eclair Pie!

I've been making this for years - AWESOME! It is ALWAYS a hit at all parties...guys love it (it's not too sweet)...and womem love it (it's light!)...PERFECT! I use fresh whipped cream. thanks for sharing!!

This was awesome!! I cut the recipe in half and used an 8x8 pan. I also melted ghirardelli chocolate chips and butter and put it on the cake, as others recommended, before adding the pudding mix.... sooo good! My friends ate every drop!

This is good! I really like the edge & corner pieces of the cake, the middle pieces seem too creamy. But it's all good! Definetly do the chocolate syrup on top that really makes this dish for me.

Just baked this today for my boyfriend's birthday and so far, so good! We're going out to dinner now but he's already looking forward to returning so he can eat the cake. Update: We loved this dessert! I just finished the last two pieces and am looking forward to making it again.

A bit too soggy to me - and I was expecting more of an eclair type of flavor/consistency. I did put the chocolate on top of the puff as other suggested and it still just didn't do it for me....

This is a fantastic recipe. Everyone loved it and it really does taste like a cream puff. I sprinkled milk chocolate chips over the crust when it came out of the oven and let a chocolate layer form and then put the remaining layers over the chocolate. It made it taste really good and the hard layer of the chocolate added a new dimension of delicious!