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Directions:Defrost the Cool Whip according to the directions on the container. Make the instant chocolate pudding according to the directions on the box. In a trifle dish or deep-sided bowl, create a 1-inch layer of cake crumbles on the bottom of the dish. Top with about an inch of the pudding, and then top that with a layer of crumbled Oreo cookies. Spread out a layer of the Cool Whip. Repeat the layering process, using all the ingredients, and top with a layer of Cool Whip. Decorate the top if you like with more cake crumbles or Oreos or a combination of both. Serve immediately, or keep chilled until about 1 hour before serving. |
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Notes: Mississippi Mud Pie is a church cookbook favorite, typically layered with (gourmet purists, stop reading now!) chocolate pudding, Oreo cookies, and Cool Whip. It’s a guilty pleasure of semi-homemade decadence. Layering the ingredients in a fancy trifle dish is the ultimate “high-low” hack. This recipe always makes me think of Miss Betty, who ran a little Nashville restaurant in Sylvan Park. When I was a little girl, my parents worked late on Thursdays, so my grandparents would take me and my brother there at five o’clock for dinner. Oh, we loved it there. “Miss Betty,” we’d say when we arrived, “what pies do you have today?” And Miss Betty would list some eight or nine pies that she’d made that day, from lemon meringue (my grandmother’s favorite) to Mississippi mud (my favorite). And every pie would have a mile-high meringue on top. After my grandmother died, I took my kids to eat at Miss Betty’s. I’d been holding it together okay until then, but Miss Betty came up and gave me a big hug and I instantly burst into tears. “I am so sorry for your loss,” she said to me. “Every Thursday I think about you and your grandparents.”
Miss Betty has passed away now, too. She fed her community and made so many people happy. I think about her often—especially when I see a cheerful dessert.
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