This no-bake Easy Eggnog Pie is an eggnog lover’s dream dessert! It’s creamy texture and great eggnog flavor is a favorite in my home. If you need a quick and easy dessert this holiday season for your Thanksgiving dessert table or holiday Christmas party, I highly suggest this pie!
My husband loves eggnog. Or “nog” as he usually refers to it as. I am pretty sure it’s why I can get him to do the grocery shopping easily in late fall, because he’s stalking the dairy department for eggnog.
No Bake Eggnog Pie
Bringing eggnog flavor to recipes is a favorite of mine during the holidays.Ā While I was making a chocolate pie this weekend, it dawned on me that replacing the milk with eggnog in a vanilla pie would result in a super easy eggnog pie.
I’m by no means the first person to think of this, which is kind of how food blogging goes. You think of something and think, oh wow, great idea!
And then if you go search Google or Pinterest, you are sure to instantly find out that 398,083 people have had the same great idea. And the idea was probably in a kindergarten class cookbook in like 1978. And one of those magazine like little holiday cookbooks at the grocery checkout, most likely in 1986.
I had like six months where I would Google every single recipe idea I had, thinking every last one had to be completely original.
Yeah, that whole re-inventing the wheel thing, um, not so easy. It was super stressful and no fun whatsoever. Everyone has pretty much made everything. And that’s okay. I eventually figured that sometimes you just have to make and share the recipes that you love (or, that your husband loves) and leave it at that. Eggnog pie anyone?
A warning, this is rich. Well, I mean, it’s made with eggnog, one of our favorite holiday indulgences.
Pie Crust
Oh, also – one thing to pay attention to – the pre-made graham cracker pie crust my eggnog store searching husband picked up, was a bigger pie crust – “two extra slices” or something like that.
While that’s great and all, pie crusts are kind of a standard to some extent so a jumbo one can mess with your recipes. I was a little short on filling for this, and sort of pushed more of it towards the outer edge. Just something to pay attention to if you are buying a ready made crust.
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EGGNOG PIE RECIPE
Easy Eggnog Pie
Ingredients
- 2 3.4 oz packages of vanilla instant pudding cheesecake flavor works well also
- 1 1/4 cup eggnog Do not use fat free, you want a thick eggnog
- 1/3 cup whole milk
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1 cup Whipped Topping Cool Whip is perfect
- 1 standard size graham cracker pie crust
Instructions
- Beat pudding mix with eggnog, milk and nutmeg for two minutes.
- Fold 1 cup COOL WHIP Whipped Topping into mixture until just combined.
- Spoon mixture into pie crust.
- Refrigerate at least three hours, up to 24.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Disclaimer
Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Cheri Carraway says
For the diabetic recipe, I made my own whipped cream, using a sugar substitute instead of sugar free cool whip and it wasn’t rubbery. Can also add,1/4 c eggnog to whipping cream
Diana Forbes says
My daughter is diabetic. She made this with the sugar free pudding, but with the eggnog and whole milk and sugar free cool whip. It taste great but looks like rubber. Is that because of the sugar free pudding and whatever ingredients that are in that or because we are mixing two different milk products.
She is greatly disappointed as she was counting on taking it to Thanksgiving tomorrow.
Christi Johnstone says
The recipe hasn’t been tested with sugar free replacements, and they can definitely alter how a recipe turns out. If trying a new recipe, and making multiple ingredient substitutions, I would always recommend a practice run if it’s for an event or special occasion. Since the recipe is not tested with those different ingredients, it’s hard to ever know for sure what the end result will be until somebody tries it.
Karla says
I’m about to prepare this eggnog pie for my eggnog lovers I have a regular frozen pie crust not Graham cracker
Will that be okay?? Tis
Christi Johnstone says
I don’t know for sure what type of crust you have, but it would likely need to be baked, then cooled completely before adding the filling. Graham cracker crusts are no bake, but traditional pastry crusts must be baked.
Tiffany says
Can I freeze this pie ?
Christi Johnstone says
You can, but freezing pudding pies or pies with Cool Whip or Whipped Cream is not my favorite, and I really wouldn’t recommend doing so. They can seep moisture and break down a bit when thawing. Since this pie literally takes just 10 minutes to make, and can be kept in the fridge for days, I’d highly recommend carving out a quick ten minutes to make it fresh 1-3 days before you need it.
Neely Beddoe says
Hi, I want to make this pie this weekend. What is the reason for the milk. Other recipes to not have milk as an ingredient. Thank you!
Christi Johnstone says
Hi Neely, to be honest, I shared this recipe back in 2014, and nine years and hundreds and hundreds of recipes later I can’t specifically recall, but if memory serves me right I believe tried with just eggnog and I think it helped balance the taste and texture – eggnog is really sweet and really thick, and I think that needed to be backed down just a touch. That said, you could certainly just use eggnog if you like, just replace the milk with it.
Res says
We don’t have cool whip in New Zealand but I’ve read that a cool whip substitute using cream cheese, thickened cream, icing sugar and vanilla essence can make something that is similar. I haven’t made it yet but I’m thinking it’ll be similar to the cream cheese topping for a carrot cake?? I’ve never had cool whip before but does it taste like cream cheese? Will this cool whip substitute work in this recipe?
Christi Johnstone says
Cool Whip is like whipped cream, very different taste and texture than cream cheese. I would probably try using a stabilized whipped cream recipe in place of the cool whip.
Dan says
Is it 2 – 3/4 oz boxes of pudding or is it 2 & 3/4 oz of pudding mix?
Christi Johnstone says
It’s two 3.4oz packages. The recipe card is shoving those a bit too close together, I will have to see if I can get that fixed. Hope that helps!
D. says
Can cool whip be used on top as garnish?
Christi Johnstone says
Of course, you can put a dollop of cool whip on anything!
Meredith says
I made this for Thanksgiving and it was a HUGE hit! Got many requests to make it again for Christmas. Soooo good! Thank you!ššš
Judy says
The filling was very thick. I agree with the one comment that it was almost rubbery. Is it 1/3 cup of milk as listed in the recipe or 1 1/3 cup? The recipe almost seems like it should have more liquid than what is listed.
Christi Johnstone says
The 1 1/4 cups eggnog is liquid as well the milk. š The wildcard on this recipe is that different eggnog brands can vary from being as thin as skim milk to thick as cream, so it’s hard to account for every variety, brand, etc. Some people complain the filling is too runny, some too thick, and that all comes down to different brands I’m afraid. I use Shamrock Farms, as that’s the easiest and most popular in my region, and is what this recipe is tested with.