Sobieski Vodka provided complimentary spirits for me to create my Halloween pudding shots.

I love Halloween, and I’m well known for my epic parties and spooky food. From rat-shaped meatloaf to cheeseball bats, I’ve whipped up all kinds of creations over the years! I’ve been having a lot of fun making specialty drinks recently, so I sat down and brainstormed some ideas for Halloween cocktails. As I mulled over ideas, I had a sudden flash of inspiration: Candy Corn Pudding Shots! I’ve been wanting to try my hand at pudding shots for a while, and I had a vision of layering puddings in a clear cup to create a candy corn effect. Here’s what I ended up with!

These are delicious! Unlike standard Jell-O shots, you’ll want to eat these with a spoon. Different pudding shot recipes recommend different things for storage – some say fridge and some say freezer, so I tried it both ways. When the shots are frozen, they become almost like an ice cream – I think this is my favorite way to eat them. It seemed to me that the alcohol flavor was less sharp when eating the frozen shot, although my taste buds may have been numbed from taste-testing a refrigerated shot first. 😉

In all, I was pretty happy with how these turned out. The middle layer didn’t turn out orange enough for my liking – I used butterscotch pudding only because it was the most “Orange” pudding I could find. I wonder if pudding shots could be mixed with standard Jell-O shots? If so, a straight-up Orange Jell-O would probably look better. This was my first attempt at making these, so it was an experiment as it so often is here at the Cooking Catastrophe kitchen!

Be warned, these are a little time-consuming to layer and require possibly more patience than I have. Because the technique is clearer to illustrate visually than to write, I shot a quick and dirty video while I was making these. This was totally unscripted as I had no plans of v-logging, as you can tell by my messy hair and kitchen! I’m not trying to compete with the Food Network here – think of it as hanging out in the kitchen with a friend while they show you a shortcut:

Since this recipe uses more vanilla pudding than the butterscotch, I found myself with a surplus of orange-tinted pudding shots. So I got a little bonus “Recipe” out of it:

Taking inspiration from these Frankenstein pudding cups, I drew pumpkin faces on the front of the snack cups, and poured the remainder of the butterscotch pudding in them. Remember, I was just using up a surplus of pudding from the first recipe, so these don’t taste like pumpkin – they’re just decorated to look like pumpkins. The first comment in the pudding shot recipe I adapted mentions pumpkin pie shots, so you could easily adapt this idea for pumpkin-flavored, pumpkin-face shots – which is way easier than the candy corn shots and looks just as cute, so this may have been the winning idea from today’s test kitchen!

Have you ever made pudding shots?