Pudding Shots!

[lvstephanie]

This weekend my friend is having her annual summer bash. Every year she has made several hundred Jello shots along with BBQ'd meat to share with her guests. And her Jello shots have all been more than your average "Vodka and blue Jello"; she tried to create unique flavors, esp. mixed drinks / shots in Jello format (this year some flavors include Mint Julep with real crushed mint leaves, Jagger Bomb (this used plain gelatin instead of Jello since the Red Bull / Jag had their own flavor), and Perfect Margaritas (made with Grand Marnier as well as Jose Cuerveo). This year, her 2nd fridge in the garage is filled with over 1000 Jello Shots!

Not to be out-done, last year I attempted my hand at pudding shots. When we were talking about all of the Jello shots she was planning to make last year, we had the wonderful idea of making pudding shots; she had some Godiva liqueurs that she wanted to use, but wasn't sure about how to use them in Jello shots, since most were creamy. Gotta love the internet... I searched on-line and found several sites that had the recipe for pudding shots:

1 3.4oz Package Pudding
1 Cup Milk
3/4 Cup alcohol (usually if using a low alcohol liqueur, 1/2 Cup of the liqueur and 1/4 cup of something more potent like vodka or rum)
1 8oz tub of Cool Whip

Mix pudding, milk and alcohol together until smooth. Fold in the tub of Cool Whip. Pour (or use piping bag) into 2oz souffle cups (there are disposable, plastic one that can be purchased at restaurant supply shops or on-line). Refrigerate or freeze. Makes about 20 x 2oz shots.

Last year because I was just trying it out, I made only about 50-100 pudding shots, and the flavors were more mundane (most web-sites have the exact recipe for Mud Slides, so that was the main one). This year, I'm getting a whole lot more adventurous, making over 250 shots with the following flavors:

• Peanutbutter Cups (Made with Nut Liquor (a PB flavored vodka) and PB2 (a powdered PB to give it just a little more peanut flavor) in Chocolate pudding)
• Orange Creamsicle (Made with Whipped Orange and UV Orange in Vanilla pudding)
• Coconut Cream Pie (Made with UV Cake, a touch of UV Coconut, and Coconut Cream Pudding)
• Mounds Candybar (Made with UV Coconut in Chocolate Pudding)
• Deer Tracks (Supposed to be like chocolate covered espresso beans aka "Deer Tracks". Made with UV Espresso in Devil's Food pudding)
• Black-forest Chocolate Cake (Made with UV Cake, Bacardi Torched Cherry, Godiva liqueur in Devil's Food Pudding. Drunken cherries soaked in 151 are imbedded in the middle as well as a drunken cherry on top.)
• Strawberry Cheesecake (Make with Tequila Rose, Bacardi Dragonberry, and a little UV Cake in Cheesecake Pudding)
• Raspberry White Chocolate (Made with a clear Chocolate-Raspberry liqueur (off-hand I can't remember the manufacturer) and a little Stoli Razz in White Chocolate pudding. Drunken raspberries soaked in 151 are placed on top.)
• Pumpkin Pie (Made with Fulton's Pumpkin Pie Liqueur and UV Cake in Cheesecake pudding. A crumble of graham cracker, cinnamon, clove, allspice, and nutmeg is sprinkled on top.)
• Mud Slide (Made with Kaluha, Bailey's, and a little Bacardi, in chocolate pudding)

I think the hits at the party will be anything with the drunken fruit, the pumpkin pie (which I made last fall and were a major hit; people are asking whether they'll make an appearance at this upcoming party), and possibly the peanutbutter cups (I made a first try-out batch with just the Nut Liquor but it didn't have quite enough PB flavor, so when I saw the PB2 at the store, I knew that it'd be perfect to up the PB flavor. Now they taste like Reese's cups!).

Which ones sound the best to you guys? Any suggestions for next year?

[Linda67]

Right off hand I'd have to say they all sound the best.....lol...However anything that's chocolate, peanut butter, cherry or raspberry would be at the top of my list.     YUM 

[ajann1983]

They all sound yummy!!! the strawberry cheesecake and the peanut butter cups sound very exciting to try. Too bad i'm not much of an alcohol drinker.

[IqraMalik]

They all sound good. Deff.

[lvstephanie]

They all went over very well! I did have to make one change to the list I presented before... I realized too late that I didn't have any Kaluha to make the Mud Slides, so I ran down to the liquor store to grab a pint of it to make the shots. But when I got to the store, I saw that they had Pearl's Carmel Vodka on sale... So instead of a Mud Slide, I made a Snickers Bar (Made with Pearl's Carmel Vodka (mostly this), Nut Liquor (just a tad), and chocolate pudding with a little PB2 to give it just a tad more peanut flavor)

[AdamH1978]

Thanks for posting this!   Sounds like a great idea, have to try this soon.  The strawberry cheesecake sounds especially good.  Tequila Rose is delicious when it's cold.