Description
This Candy Corn Layered Pudding Dessert Cups recipe creates a festive and colorful treat perfect for Halloween or any autumn celebration. Layers of creamy vanilla pudding and orange-tinted pudding topped with whipped cream and decorated with candy corn and colored sugars make for a fun and visually appealing dessert that’s easy to assemble and delightfully sweet.
Ingredients
Scale
Pudding Layers
- 2 boxes (5.1 oz each) Vanilla Instant Pudding and Pie Filling
- 6 cups cold milk
- Orange food coloring, about 5 drops
Topping and Decoration
- 8 oz Cool Whip, thawed
- Candy corn, for decoration
- Orange and yellow colored sugars, for decoration
Instructions
- Prepare the pudding: In a large bowl, combine both packages of vanilla instant pudding with 6 cups of cold milk. Whisk according to the package directions (make it pudding consistency, not pie filling) until thickened.
- Separate pudding: Divide the prepared pudding into two bowls, placing 1/3 of the pudding in one bowl and 2/3 in the other.
- Color the larger portion: Add orange food coloring drops one at a time into the bowl containing 2/3 of the pudding. Stir well after each drop and stop when the desired orange shade is reached.
- Layer the pudding in cups: Take 10 plastic cups and fill each about 1/3 full with the plain vanilla pudding. Then add the orange-colored pudding on top, roughly double the vanilla amount, creating a two-layer effect with 1/3 yellow vanilla and 2/3 orange pudding. Leave some space on top for the whipped cream.
- Add the topping: Spoon or pipe a generous amount of thawed Cool Whip on top of the pudding layers in each cup.
- Decorate: Garnish each cup with candy corn pieces and sprinkle orange and yellow colored sugars over the whipped topping for an eye-catching, festive finish.
Notes
- Use instant pudding mix for quick preparation; do not use the pie filling instructions.
- For a homemade whipped topping, you can whip heavy cream with sugar until stiff peaks form as an alternative to Cool Whip.
- Chill the assembled dessert cups for at least 30 minutes before serving to enhance texture and flavor.
- Plastic dessert cups are recommended for easy layering, but glass cups can also be used.
- Adjust the amount of food coloring according to your preferred intensity of orange color.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 190
- Sugar: 22g
- Sodium: 120mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 4.5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 29g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 10mg
