Day 40: Chocolate Pudding Pie

I had a dream that I had made this chocolate mousse-pudding pie with a graham cracker crust. I then added crushed oreo and gummy worms on top. Well, I googled this, and to find out, its an actual pie! The pudding box I bought even had the recipe on it. Who knew?! Jimmy says I got the idea from watching Julie & Julia because she had made the same pie before trying Julia Child's cook book. I had watched this movie right before I went to bed, so maybe he's right!

Ingredients:

1 box of pudding, any flavor.

1 container of Cool Whip

Graham cracker pie package

Directions:

1. Make pudding according to directions

2. Combine pudding and cool whip together, mix

3. Put ingredients onto pie crust, let cool for an hour.

I shredded a chocolate bar on top to add to the presentation

What we thought:

Jimmy rates this a 10/10. I would rate that a 10 as well. It satisfied my craving for chocolate and the taste of graham cracker and chocolate was like uber yummy!!

Day 11: Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Happy Valentines Day! I couldn't think of anything more festive other than chocolate covered strawberries to make for valentines. Jimmy helped me with putting chocolate on the strawberries, and it ended up being a fun couples activity. It was more interesting trying to keep Jimmy from eating all the strawberries and chocolate! Good thing I bought two cases of strawberries ;)

What you will need:

1 lb of strawberries

10 oz of semi sweet chocolate

If you want to decorate the chocolate, you can get white chocolate to drizzle on top of the dark chocolate, or vice versa.

Get dippin' ya'll:

You can melt your chocolate two ways:

1) By using a double boiler

2) Microwave

I used the microwave. I emptied the chocolate into the bowl, cooked for 2 minutes, stirred the chocolate around, and cooked for another 2 minutes. Put parchment paper on a plate, dip the strawberries, and place in the freezer for a few hours until the chocolate has cooled.

Jimmy rated the strawberries a perfect 10/10! We waited like 5 minutes and decided that they were frozen enough because we couldn't wait. We ate three and put them back into the freezer, which ended up being a bad idea. We left them in the freezer over night. The strawberries were completely frozen, so we moved them to the fridge. The strawberries ended up thawing out and getting soggy, so we left them out and that messed them up even more. O well. We would reccomend putting them in the fridge after you make them so they cool off, yet not freeze