Green Chocolate-Vanilla Trifle

It's been a long time since I've posted... been slacking in trying out recipes! This one is one I actually made for St. Patty's Day, and realized I never posted. I found this one through Pinterest, like I do most of my recipes nowadays. This is from a blog called Kroma Design Studio. It sounded simple and delicious! I changed it a little bit for my tastes.

Original recipe

Ingredients:
2 boxes (4 serving size each) of JELLO vanilla flavor instant pudding
Green food coloring
3 1/2 cups cold milk
1 tub Cool Whip (8 oz.)
1-18oz pkg. Oreos, coarsely crushed*
A couple brownies, cut into small pieces (or crumbled)

Step 1: Pour milk into large bowl. Stir in food coloring to desired green-ness.
Step 2: Add pudding mixes and beat with a wire whisk until well blended. Let stand 5 minutes.
Step 3: Gently stir/fold in Cool Whip.
Step 4: In a trifle bowl, layer half of the crushed cookies and brownies in one layer. Then add pudding mixture layer. Repeat layers.
Step 5 (optional): Top with piped whipped cream if desired.
Step 6: Refrigerate for at least an hour or until ready to serve (mine sat overnight).

*Remove the Oreo filling before crushing the cookies. I mixed the Oreo filling into the pudding mix, before adding the Cool Whip.

Recipe time: Less than 30 minutes
My cooking time: 40 minutes (including cookie crushing)

This recipe turned out great! I was a little impatient with the Cool Whip thawing, so the consistency was a bit off. But still turned out very tasty (just the top piped whipped cream didn't hold well). Will definitely make this again. Could actually use any other food coloring to make it appropriate for whatever type of party you're holding.

Ingredients

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Step 4 repeated

Step 5 (optional whipped cream topping)