One of the things I am most thankful for is sugar free pudding. I am thankful for sugar free pudding because if you have a bad day you can knock back two or three of those bad boys and not feel guilty.
So one day when I had just finished consuming my second 60 calorie sugar free pudding and was about to reach for a third, Bluebell said to me…..”you know, you could drink them like shots”
…..to which my brain said
…. “PUDDING SHOTS……….YEAH!!”
Now I am very fortunate because I have some awesome ladies that live in my neighborhood who I have become BFF’s with over the past few years. Sooooo, a couple of days after Bluebell mentioned pudding shots to me, three of my BFF’s and I decided to drive together to go shopping at Trader Joes……ummmmm isn’t that what suburban housewives do???
Hey, none of us had to work or go to school that day….don’t be haters……
So as we were driving we were discussing life and I was telling the ladies what Bluebell had said about the pudding shooters. As we were talking we realized we were all getting together (there are 7 families in this little BFF family group) to celebrate The Hunter’s birthday on the following Saturday So we decided we needed to try to make pudding shots so I could blog about it. (Yeah, nothing in it for them either huh…..snort….) So Friday I went shopping for puddings and made sure we had some tasty liquor and liqueurs to mix with the pudding.
On Saturday night the families arrive and we decide to have a judging of different pudding flavors with different alcohols. The two pudding flavors we used during the experimentation were dark chocolate and vanilla. I think the Jello sugar free dark chocolate is the creamiest of the chocolates, so that is what I bought, and plain vanilla for a different flavor palate…..(I may have been watching too much Food Network….)
We used our resident fabulous mixologist M. to mix the alcohol and the pudding to make sure we had the right consistency and taste. He poured and whisked and tasted and poured and whisked and tasted to make sure all was right. The first batch we made was chocolate with Baileys Irish Cream and Kahlua.
Then we had some tasters. And the results were…………….. (insert drum roll)
Now we didn’t leave out the others, but I was so busy tasting that I forgot to take pictures…..must have been the chocolate alcohol haze I was starting to go into…….. Round number two was dark chocolate pudding and Godiva chocolate liquer….and the results were:
I have to say that one was my personal FAVE!!!
Then we tried:
vanilla pudding and Buttershots liqueuer
and THEN we got even more creative……do I need to mention that we had all had about 5 or 6 shots by this point……so, we got creative (wait I already said that), and mixed the chocolate and vanilla together:
That was Tinkerbell’s shot glass, it was huge, and she DID NOT let it out of her hands……
Then we tried mixing choc and vanilla in the same glass: (does anyone hear an echo here?)
Then I decided to beatTinkerbell at her own game and pulled out a 9 oz cup……. I just chucked the whole shot glass idea at that point.
But the Steelers fan had the best idea of all!
And the best part is if you get pulled over on the way home and the police officer asks if you have been drinking, you can say, “Why no Officer, just had some pudding with some friends.”
Just kidding, I don’t condone slurping and driving!!! The good news is all of my friends could just walk home!