Flower Pot Pudding

  Well, it is April Fools Day, and I wanted to post something that would be fitting for the day.  We used to have these little individual puddings at birthday parties, sometimes, growing up. They taste really good and are quick to make. You can make the pudding all one flavor, if you want. To me, it's more realistic to have a dark chocolate or butterscotch pudding, and cover the tops of each pudding with lots of crumbled Oreos. Either way you make it it's good! :-)  One dinner party I went to even had these as the desserts.  The way they had it done, it looked like a real plant, and they announced you could take your spoon and eat the sand out of the clay pots for the dessert! Everyone laughed and loved it! :-)  There are some more complicated "fake" foods that I wanted to post, but they are a little bit harder to make. I'll post them at a later time.  Hope you enjoy the pudding! :-)

Flower Pot Pudding

•2 cups cold milk
•1 package each (4-serving size)  of Vanilla & Chocolate Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
•1 tub (8 ounces) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed
•15 OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, finely crushed, divided

  Prepare 1 package each (4-serving size) Vanilla Instant Pudding and Chocolate Instant Pudding separately, with 2 cups each cold milk, as directed on packages. Let stand 5 minutes.
  Gently stir 1/2 cup of Cool Whip Whipped Topping into each bowl of pudding. Finely crush 20 Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, then sprinkle 1 tablespoon into bottom of 8 (6-ounce) dessert cups, or aluminum foil lined small clay pots.  Top each with 1/4 cup vanilla pudding, 1 tablespoon cookie crumbs and 1/4 cup chocolate pudding. Sprinkle evenly with remaining cookie crumbs. Refrigerate at least 1 hour or until ready to serve. Insert plastic flower and your flower pot pudding is ready to serve.  (Note: You can hide gummy worms in the layers of the pudding if you like, but to me it tastes good the way it is, without them.)