{"id":9822,"date":"2010-01-15T12:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=9822"},"modified":"2011-08-18T04:17:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T08:17:43","slug":"pudding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/pudding\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof in the Pudding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NFFpudding1<\/a>Ladies, let’s admit it.\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes we make life harder than it has to be.\u00a0 Am I right or am I right?\u00a0\u00a0 Take me, for example.\u00a0 This week, in an effort to make my Shower with Love<\/em><\/strong> the\u00a0BEST\u00a0employee baby shower\u00a0EVER<\/em> <\/strong>(photos soon to follow)<\/em>, <\/strong>I\u00a0embarked on one too many homemade desserts from scratch.\u00a0\u00a0 The day before the shower, I had brownie pops, red velvet cupcakes, white sour cream cupcakes,\u00a0and brownie bites all\u00a0in made, half-made, and batter-form lining my kitchen.\u00a0 Needless to say, by the time I was finished baking one batch of everything,\u00a0 I was so exhausted I decided to scratch the whole thing and go buy the bulk of the \u00a0food from Costco.\u00a0 In the end, I added small homemade touches to the store bought brownie bites and other desserts and I believe they turned out just as fabulous than if I had made them myself from scratch. Okay, maybe even better. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The lesson being that sometimes you don’t need to give a million dollar effort (or spend a million dollars) to get a million dollar product.<\/p>\n

These pudding desserts prove the same point. My mother, along with a few other women, were asked to make desserts for a large crowd this week. Instead of slaving over personal\u00a0cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e or mini cheesecakes, my mom went with pudding. “Pudding?!”<\/em> I said. “You are going to make pudding? The kind from a box? mm.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Pudding didn’t seem glamarous or fabulous to me. And yet, she proved me wrong. I guess there is a reason I call her Sandra Anderson Living.<\/p>\n

\"NFFPudding\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Using tiny taster cups (2″ X 3″), she filled each 2\/3 the way with vanilla and chocolate pudding (the box kind!) enhanced only by replacing the milk required with half and half instead to give it a more creamy taste. She then piped on pretty puffs of Dream Whip rather than regular homemade whipped cream. (Dream Whip stays stiff at normal room temperature for a much longer period of time than real whipped cream or Cool Whip and she knew they would be sitting out on the dessert table for a fair amount of time before serving.) She then finished them off with a sprinkle of coconut and chocolate shavings.\u00a0 Needless to say, the guests went nuts over them.\u00a0
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So easy, so fabulous, and so affordable.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I’m going to try making them myself, the next time I am trying to plan the best baby shower EVER<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Blog to you soon,<\/p>\n

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For more pudding inspiration check out these:
\nWishCandy NonTraditional Wedding Desserts<\/a>
\nAustralia Entertains<\/a>
\nAn Affordable Way to Feed Your Guests Affordable Utah Weddings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you don’t need to give a million dollar effort (or spend a million dollars) to get a million dollar product.
\nThese pudding desserts prove the point. My mother, along with a few other women, were asked to make desserts for a large crowd this week. Instead of slaving over personal creme brulee or mini cheesecakes, my mom went with pudding. “Pudding?!”<\/em> I said. “You are going to make pudding? The kind from a box? Hmm.” <\/em>Pudding didn’t seem glamarous or fabulous to me. And yet, she proved me wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorialsrecipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}