Add a special element to any small party, or even a quiet evening with the family, by putting together a mix and match pudding parfait bar. It’s a popular annual event at our place; and unlike ice cream parfaits, pudding doesn’t melt.

If you don’t have glass dessert dishes, use juice glasses or wine glasses so people can enjoy their layering talents.

You can make the pudding or buy it. At different times. we’ve made instant pudding or cooked pudding, even cooked from scratch (mixing and measuring all the ingredients). Sophisticated palates will prefer the cooked variations.

Here’s what else you need:

MIX & MATCH PUDDING PARFAITS

Basic Ingredients

 
and/or

 
Creamy Layers

Customize the ingredients to your crowd and the occasion. If you’d rather have pistachio or maple pudding, team colors, a layer of crushed peanut butter cups or Corn Flakes, and so forth, by all means set them out!

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TOPPING

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It’s also gluten-free and certified kosher (dairy) by OU.

Truwhip Natural and Truwhip Skinny look just like the other stuff and can be used in the same way:

 
Truwhip Natural has 30 calories, 20 from fat, per two-tablespoon serving. Truwhip Skinny has 25 calories, 15 from fat.

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In terms of the flavor, to quote one of our tasters:

“It tastes different from Cool Whip. You kind of get used to all those chemicals.”

It tastes like what it is: cool, creamy and natural.

Truwip, in Natural (regular) and Skinny (reduced fat). Photos courtesy Peak Foods.