Chocolate Mousse Parfait

This week's post is for those of you desperately in need of some chocolate. The best thing is, you can change up the flavors and ingredients to form a parfait custom to your tastes.

Oreos, Cool Whip, chocolate mousse, vanilla pudding... Have I died and gone to heaven?

Mine doesn't look nearly as good as the original, but it still tasted wonderfully delicious.

Ingredients:
1 box chocolate pudding
1 box vanilla pudding
4 cups milk (for the pudding)
2 tbsp sugar
Crumbled Oreos
Small tub of Cool Whip

The point of this recipe is to layer all kinds of your favorite sweets to form a glass full of goodness. Remember, you can use whatever flavor of pudding you like!

I started off by preparing both flavors of the pudding. When they were set and ready to go, I took the chocolate pudding and turned it into chocolate mousse.

To do this, I mixed half the tub of Cool Whip and the sugar into the pudding. Caution! This will look scrumptious and you will be tempted to grab a spoon and eat all of the mousse in one sitting.

If you can keep your spoon out of it long enough to prepare a whole parfait, I can assure you won't be disappointed.

I may or may not have licked the spoons. All of them.

I started layering my parfait by dumping some crumbled Oreos into the bottom of my glass. I added some vanilla pudding, lots of chocolate mousse, and topped it off with Cool Whip and more crumbled Oreos.

My Tips:

I didn't fill up my glass because I thought it would be sweetness overload, and I was right. I honestly couldn't even finish the whole parfait.

Use the ingredients that you find most appealing- no one's forcing you to abide by a strict recipe! Just have fun with it. 

Set up a parfait bar at a kids party or family gathering and have them build their own desserts. Add chocolate chip cookies, sprinkles, M&M's, Reese's Pieces, peanuts, graham crackers or anything else you can think of. The kids will have fun building their desserts AND eating them.

Try it out! Have any suggestions for other ingredients? Let me know in the comments.