Pear Pudding Parfait

This quick, cheap, healthy, and yummy pudding is one of my favorite desserts for summer. The light pear and whipped cream flavors blend perfectly, and the dish is easy to customize.

Ingredients:

1 can - Pear Halves in Syrup (8-9oz can, or about one cup peeled and sliced fresh pears)
½ tsp - cinnamon
1/8 tsp - nutmeg
2 cups - French Vanilla Cool Whip
2 - cinnamon and sugar graham crackers (8 squares)
2 Tbsp - chopped walnuts
2 - fresh or Maraschino cherries

Directions:

Pour pears, cinnamon, nutmeg and Cool Whip into a blender and mix well, until the pears become smooth and creamy. Serve as is or chill first, because, voila, the pudding part is done!

To make the “parfait”, take half a cinnamon and sugar graham cracker, or two squares, and crumble it into the bottom of a pudding dish. Spoon pudding into the dish and fill to the top! Take other half of the graham cracker, and 1 Tbsp chopped walnuts, and sprinkle them over the pudding. Then top with a cherry and serve! Repeat process to make second pudding parfait.

Serves: 2

Note:

This recipe can taste a little like an old-fashioned Thanksgiving apple pie, especially if you use apple sauce instead of pears. So if you’re dying for some homemade apple or pear pie, try this quick pudding.

The dish is easy to change, so if you’re looking for a dessert that tastes a little less like pie, do not add any cinnamon or cinnamon and sugar graham crackers. If you want a slightly more gourmet, adult dessert, do not add cinnamon or graham crackers, instead use 1 or 2 tbsp of your favorite white wine.

If you want to go healthier, use some non-fat yogurt instead of the whipped cream and some granola instead of the graham crackers. Almost any kind of fresh fruit also tastes great tossed in. If you want to go with something more indulgent, try adding pudding instead of whipped cream.