Brielle's Avalon

I had milk I needed to use up. I had enough to make 2 batches of pudding. So tapioca and chocolate got made. Since that seemed a lot of pudding for one person I made a parfait as well as a marbled pie. That’ll be dessert for me for the next week!

You can make a single pie crust or pull one out of the freezer. You do have an emergency supply of frozen pie crusts, don’t you? Good. Bake one according to the directions. Don’t forget to dock the bottom so it doesn’t dome up. What’s docking? You poke the bottom in a few places to let the air out so it doesn’t push the bottom up. Or you can line the crust with waxed paper and fill it with beans and rice to weight it down. Pull it out and let it cool. If you have a store-bought graham cracker crust in the pantry you can use that and it doesn’t need baking. YAY!

While the crust is in the oven cook the pudding according to the recipe or box directions if you aren’t cooking from scratch. Of course you have cook and serve pudding for emergencies in the pantry! Just don’t try to cook instant and don’t expect cook and serve to firm up without cooking. Yes, cook and serve takes more time but I like it better and think it’s smoother. That said, there’s nothing like pudding or custard made from scratch. Well, whatever you have and whatever you have time for, do that.

Pour the pudding into the crust and chill. If you have 2 flavours lay them in as stripes. The flavours can be whatever you like and one hopes they taste good together.

Then marble them. I feathered them pretty nicely but then tried to smoothe it out and made it less pretty marbley and just messy marbleous.

If you use 2 flavours you’ll probably have some of each left over. Make a parfait. Try to layer the different puddings so they show up better in yours. If you don’t have a parfait glass, just use a cool mug, but do keep an eye out for parfait glasses because they’re fun to layer desserts in. Or breakfasts, just use yogurt, granola and berries. They can be inexpensive in thrift stores. Fruit, sprinkles, syrup or chocolate curls are nice on top. Yes, you can be extravagant and use as many different cool extravagant things as you like. Even edible flowers. Especially if the edible flowers are sugared, but that’s another post.

A bit of whipped cream fixes everything. Whipping it up from scratch uses up some of the calories from eating, but if you don’t have time there’s always the option of the canned spray stuff, which is fun and also works to hide flaws in the pie. If you want to dress it up with fruit or edible flowers, have fun and make it pretty.

You can add more to your slice if you like, sprinkles or chocolate curls are fun, too. Serve with tea, coffee, or the beverage of your choice. Yes, I set the parfait as the featured image because it was prettier than the pie.