The layers of low-calorie gelatin, whipped topping, and pudding are surely not spectacular, but also probably not too objectionable... Except for the question of how it all fits together. I would be perfectly happy with any citrus (including lime) and chocolate, or peppermint and chocolate... Lime, peppermint, and chocolate together, though? I think this is a case where two out of three is probably better than three out of three!
If you are not into diet culture, and instead your post-Christmas fun might include trying to recreate old recipes that call for ingredients that don't exist anymore, Chocolate Clackers Crunch offers a nice little project.
This one is hampered by the star ingredient-- Clackers-- being a cereal so obscure that I'd never heard of it before, probably because it disappeared in 1973. The description on Wikipedia sounds kind of like Golden Grahams, but the image in commercials looks closer to Cracklin' Oat Bran. Try getting a box of each and making the candy both ways!
Or just follow my post-holiday sweets tradition and try to find Reese's peanut butter trees on clearance! Cheap, easy, and guaranteed to be good.
Wow, that parfait! Maybe they were trying to make it feel like you were eating two desserts. Too bad that the second one was like jello. Maybe just eat down to that layer and quit.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought that "clackers" was maybe a typo. I'm wondering how popular that cereal was when it was being produced.
Skipping the Jell-O seems like a definite improvement. The dessert will be smaller but better, so seems like a fair trade-off. The Clackers must not have been too popular if they disappeared.
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