St Patrick's Day Pudding Cups - Simply Made Recipes (2024)

St Patrick’s Day Pudding Cups are made with chocolate instant pudding, mint OREO cookies, sprinkles and whipped cream topped with a edible gold sprayed OREO coin.

I wanted to create a fun and really easy dessert for the holiday. My kids always go crazy for pudding so I made these basic pudding cups with a couple little features to make them extra special. The lucky gold coin really completes this dessert creating something festive and a bit original.

You may also enjoy these St Patricks Day Hot Chocolate Bombs!

St Patrick’s Day Pudding Cups

St Patrick’s Day Pudding Cups have layers of creamy chocolate pudding, layers of cool whipped cream with crunchy, minty pieces of OREO cookies throughout. An easy dessert to whip up that both children and adults will enjoy!

What You Need

• Mint OREO Thins
• Edible Gold Mist
• Sprinkles
• Instant chocolate Pudding
• Milk
• Heavy Cream
• Confectioners Sugar
• Vanilla Extract
• Green Food Coloring
• Small Jars (4)
• Pastry Bags
• Parchment Paper
• Hand Mixer
• Bowls

Instructions

1. Place a bowl and beaters of hand mixer into freezer for 20 minutes.
2. Remove from freezer, assemble hand mixer.
3. Make the whipped topping: Pour 1 cup heavy cream into cold bowl along with confectioners sugar and vanilla extract. Beat to a stiff peak meaning that when the beaters are lifted out of the bowl, the whipped topping holds shape and does not flop over.
4. Place a quarter of the whipped topping in a separate bowl for the final topping on pudding cups. Place to the side.
5. Add some green food coloring into remaining whipped topping and stir until fully incorporated. Place to side until everything else is prepped.
6. Spray four OREO cookies with the gold mist : Set your OREO cookies on parchment paper, spray the cookies, let dry, flip and repeat. Set to the side.
7. Chop ten OREO cookies. Set to the side.
8. Mix your instant pudding with milk according to box instructions.
9. Layer your pudding cups. Start with a layer of pudding, add a layer of green whipped topping, add a few sprinkles and chopped OREO cookies and repeat one more time.
10. Add a dollop of whipped topping that was not colored green and sprinkle any remaining cookie crumbs over top.
11. Garnish each with a lucky gold cookie coin.
12. Place into fridge until set up and chilled.

Tips

A trick for Pinterest perfect pudding cups is to place the pudding and the green whipped cream into pastry bags so you have more control over the layers!

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