Pet Ghost in a Jar Pudding Cups

You better eat this dessert up fast before your pet ghost vanishes! These Pet Ghost in a Jar Pudding Cups have a friendly gummy ghost hiding in delicious chocolate pudding that makes the perfect Halloween treat!

“This post/recipe originally appeared on my main blog BigBearsWife.com for  #HalloweenTreatsWeek”

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Have you seen the Pet Ghost in a Jar DIY crafts online before? I’ve seen a few over the years online and in magazines but I decided to take that ideas a little further into the food world and created these Pet Ghost in a Jar Pudding Cups for #HalloweenTreatsWeek this year!

This ghostly ghoul is ready to hang out at Halloween parties and party on the dessert table!

What you need to make Pet Ghost in a Jar Pudding Cups:

• Chocolate Pudding (recipe below)
• Gummy Ghost
• Whipped Cream (Homemade or Spray Can)
• Halloween Sprinkles
• Jar
• Twine
• Pet Ghost Tag (Free Printable Below)

These gummy ghost and these fun Halloween sprinkles are from Wilton and I just love them! They gave me some great inspiration for this project!

If you want to make your own pet ghost dessert cups and want to use the same little ghost tag that I made, you can click HERE to get the file. Just right click and save it.

Then you can add it to a word document or how ever you want to size it and print it.

I found these little jars at the Dollar Tree in the Fall section and they worked perfectly for these desserts. I bet these would also be cute in little plastic shot glasses if you wanted to make a bunch for a party.

Oh and let me give you a little tip for making these ghost in a jar pudding cups.

While you can totally fill these treat cups with anything you’d like, if you are going to use something like pudding you need to make the ghost gummy sit as flat against the jar as possible. I laid the ghost on my kitchen counter and rolled over them with a rolling pin to flatten them a bit before adding them to the jar. Then when I did add them in, I kept the jar laying sideways until I filled it about half way with pudding and then sat it up to fill it the rest of the way so that the ghost would stay put.

Those ghost, I tell ya, they’re some sneaky little creatures…always trying to disappear into the pudding haha.

 

Pet Ghost in a Jar Pudding Cups

Ghost tag Printable File Here

Yield: 4 servings

Pet Ghost in a Jar Pudding Cups

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You better eat this dessert up fast before your pet ghost vanishes! These Pet Ghost in a Jar Pudding Cups have a friendly gummy ghost hiding in delicious chocolate pudding that makes the perfect Halloween treat!

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

ChillTime 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
• 8 tablespoons dark cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 8 eggs
• 6 cups milk
• 2 teaspoons chocolate extract (or vanilla)
• 4 gummy ghost
• Whipped Cream
• Sprinkles
• 4 small jars or glasses

Instructions

1. In a medium bowl combine 1 cup sugar, cocoa powder, cornstarch, and salt.
2. Mix together.
3. Take 6 eggs, separate yolks from whites. Save whites for another recipe.
4. Add remaining whole eggs to egg yolks. Add egg yolks to sugar mixture and mix well.
5. Stir in 1 cup milk.
6. Heat 5 cups of milk in a saucepan; when milk is warm whisk in sugar and egg mixture.
7. Cook on medium heat uncovered, until thick, about 10 minutes. Whisking occasionally.
8. Remove from heat, add in chocolate or vanilla extract. Stir well.
9. Let pudding cool slightly and pour into a bowl. Place a piece of plastic wrap over pudding, pressing it onto top of pudding to prevent a skin from forming as it cools Place into fridge for 1 hour or until chilled.
10. Lay gummy ghosts on a flat surface and use the palm of your hand or a rolling pin to flatten them a bit.
11. Lay glass or jar on its side and press each ghost onto the inside of a glass or jar.
12. Stir the chilled pudding and spoon into glasses. Once glass/jar is half way full sit it up and fill until full.
13. Top with whipped cream and sprinkles.

Notes

Ghost tag Printable File Here

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