Toast Bill Cosby's Birthday With A Homemade Jell-O Pudding Pop
By Melissa Wiley in Food on Jul 12, 2012 4:00PM
We came of age lusting after Jell-O pudding pops and snickering at spokesman Bill Cosby’s slippery, silly faces as he puckered his lips and lapped up those creamy, portable treats that were all too often missing in our own freezer. Inevitably, when a variety pack did make its way into our house, the actual treat proved slightly less intoxicating than the funny man’s branding of it. The moral? Jell-O products are all well and fine, but good clean Cosby comedy is even better. Eat Your Jell-O Day is therefore little more than an apt pretext to celebrate the man of many sweaters himself, Bill Cosby, and his annual rotation about the sun.
Today he turns 75 and outlasts pudding pops another year. These lovably lickable treats have, alack, long gone the way of the dinosaurs (meaning that scientists believe a rogue comet took them out), but Jell-O and its pudding mix is still alive and well, and there are endless ways to incorporate it into your summer sugar index. Sure, on its surface Eat Your Jell-O Day may seem to portend nothing but wobbly technicolored cubes that breeze down the esophagus like sun-drunk kids on a Slip 'n Slide. But a frothy chocolate Jell-O milkshake is a truer, closer relation to the illustrious pudding pop. And if you’re going to pay tribute, you’d best do it right. Plus, this is your opportunity to indulge in a sippable summer classic all too easily relegated to the ‘50s malt shop and those much ballyhooed simpler times.
So mix yourself up a vintage concoction wholesome enough for Bill Cosby himself and his once-innocent pudding pop demographic. Apply lips to bendy straw and proceed to make funny faces as so desired.
Ingredients:
3 cups cold milk
1 pkg. (4 serving size) Jell-O chocolate instant pudding & pie filling
3 scoops vanilla ice cream
endless dollops of Cool Whip as you fancy
Directions:
Pour milk, pudding mix, and ice cream into blender and then cover. Blend for 15 seconds on high speed or until the milkshake-in-making reaches desired consistency. Top with billowy mounds of whipped topping just before serving and embarking on your best B.C. impression. Multicolored sweater circa 1985 strictly optional.