Okay y'all, I was not going to post this recipe because it was a spur of the moment "What do we have on hand?" thing that I jotted down and then we tried it.
But! It's so very, very good.
We know that fruit/pistachio cream and chocolate work well together and I love cheesecake flavors.
I don't know what to call this, PLEASE leave suggestions.
You will need:
- 2 cups of plain Greek yogurt + 1/2 cup water (what I used)
- OR 2 1/2 cups of regular plain yogurt
- 1 box instant pudding mix- sugar free is fine. I used Jell-o Chocolate Fudge
- 3 Tbsp black raspberry powder*
- 1 jar prepared pistachio cream
- whipped cream
- vanilla wafer cookies
Mix yogurt, pudding, and raspberry powder well. Portion into dessert dishes or tins.
Add a couple spoons of pistachio cream on top.
Chill until set.
Serve with whipped cream and vanilla wafers.
Just THAT easy- but also pretty adaptable.
The yogurt gives it a cheesecake flavor, tangy and good, and because it's so thick, it sets up a lot firmer than pudding would. More like cheesecake filling.
If you don't have powdered fruits of any sort in your kitchen or easily available, there are substitutions available.
You can use a 1/2 cup of fruit juice instead of water with Greek yogurt, OR you can use a packet or two of unsweetened Kool-aid.
For that matter, you can also use this basic formula for non-bake desserts. I'd suggest using cupcake wrappers in a muffin tin, put a cookie in the bottom of each one, then use yogurt+juice with a good pudding flavor.
I also think the color of the pudding and black raspberry powder inspires a graveyard dessert for Halloween, use dried devil's food cake crumbs or Oreo crumbs to make it more like dirt, cut out rectangles from paper and lay them across the top, sprinkle with a green sanding sugar for grass, remove the rectangles, and now you have freshly dug graves. Make cookie gravestones.