I have a friend who was looking for a recipe for pumpkin pudding so I researched different recipes and came up with this one. The best part of this recipe is its simplicity and readily available ingredients. I love that it has the taste of pumpkin pie without all the work. If you are wanting something a little lighter, you could fold the whipped cream into the pumpkin mixture and just layer with the cookie crumbs. It would taste more like a pumpkin mousse.
Pumpkin Parfaits
Ingredients:
12 gingersnap cookies, crushed
1 lg. box of instant vanilla pudding mix
2 C. milk
1 C. pumpkin puree
1/8 tsp. allspice
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
whipped cream or cool whip
Place the cookies in a ziploc bag and crush into fine crumbs. In a large bowl mix together the pudding mix and the milk until it becomes thickened. Whisk in the pumpkin and the spices. Cover the bottom of 6 dessert dishes with some cookie crumbs. Spoon 2 large spoonfuls of the pudding mixture over the crumbs. Smooth it into a layer over top of the cookie crumbs. Spoon 2 large spoonfuls of the whipped cream and, again, smooth it into a flat layer. Spoon 2 more large spoonfuls of pumpkin mixture over top of the whipped cream layer and smooth it flat. Place a dollop of whipped cream on top and place them in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Before serving, place a broken cookie piece on top of the whipped cream dollop.
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