I love festive holiday desserts… Going crazy with food coloring? Sign me up! Just a few times a year do I throw health and diet out and eat a yummy dessert. This tasty St. Patrick’s Day Dessert is full of color and flavor. The two more important things about dessert, right? Who’s with me!? So, a funny story… My five year old was watching me take these photos… His comment, “Mom, why is the food so messy? No one wants messy food!”. I had to laugh. I guess the mint sprinkled in front and the glaze on top is just too much for him. I thought they turned out pretty.  I made these two ways. 1. as a parfait {ish} dessert. Layer the crumbled brownie, then pudding and ganache on top of that. Sprinkle a bit of chopped Andes mints on top and you have a hit! You can also just make it a pan. This is the way to mass produce it for sure. {side note} My first batch of brownies.. I forgot the sugar and doubled the flour. Let’s just say it was like a really bad chocolate biscuit!} We each took a small bite and then the whole pan when in the trash. SO, I would suggest printing this recipe out, instead of copying it with a pen. {opps! Easy to make a mistake…} I wondered why flour was on the recipe twice, I didn’t wonder why there was no sugar though {ha!}

 here’s the official recipe:  St. Patrick’s Day Dessert

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Ingredients

• 1 package instant vanilla pudding {regular or sugar free}
• green food coloring
• Mint Chocolate Ganache
• 1 cup + 2 TBS Heavy Cream
• 1 tsp mint extract
• 1 Tbs unsalted butter @ room temperature
• 1/4 TBS sea salt
• 9 OZ. white chocolate
• 1 Package Andes Mints for topping

Instructions

1. Put white chocolate in a medium bowl
2. In a sauce pan bring the cream to a simmer.
3. Pour cream over chocolate and let it melt for 2-3 min. Whisk until smooth.
4. Add butter, salt and mint. Whisk and let stand until thicken.

With these two recipes you will be able to recreate this St. Patrick’s Day Dessert. Bake the brownies, color the pudding green, spread the pudding on the brownie, then top with the gnache and andes mints. YUM!And one final photo before I sign off… I took this photo and thought it was great, until I noticed my pan. Oh WOW!! Did that pan get a scrubbing after this photo!! Just keeping it real!SO, what will you serve on St. Patricks day? I’m thinking Rubens and something else green. Last year I made this yummy pasta. Will you make a special St. Patrick’s Day Dessert?