Kansas City Mud Pie

Ingredients

• 0.3 cup butter melted
• 16 oz philadelphia cream cheese softened
• 0.8 cup flour 
• 7.8 oz jell-o chocolate flavor pudding instant
• 2.7 cups milk cold
• 1.3 cups planters pecans finely chopped
• 1.5 cups powdered sugar 
• 8 oz cool whip whipped topping divided thawed

Equipment

• frying pan
• oven
• knife
• whisk
• blender
• springform pan

Directions

1. Heat oven to 375F.
2. Combine nuts, flour and butter; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan.
3. Bake 20 min.; cool.
4. Beat cream cheese and sugar with mixer until blended. Gently stir in 1-1/2 cups COOL WHIP; spread over crust. Beat pudding mixes and milk with whisk 2 min.; spread over cream cheese layer.
5. Refrigerate several hours or until firm. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen dessert; remove rim. Top dessert with remaining COOL WHIP just before serving.