"Would you be my Valentine?"
The month of January certainly threw us a curveball with unexpected cold and snow days disrupting our usual routine. 🥶⛄ We extend our sincere appreciation to our resilient families and dedicated partners, for their commitment to education during these days! Your flexibility has not gone unnoticed.
As we bid goodbye (hopefully) to the unpredictable weather, let's look forward to a month of consistent learning, growth, and collaboration. Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication to the education of tomorrow’s leaders.
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The Judith P. Hoyer Center Early Learning Hubs, also known as “Judy Centers,” benefit everyone in Maryland by improving the quality of life for families. Through a dedicated staff of early learning professionals, they help prepare children age birth through kindergarten for school readiness. Located at Title I schools in every Maryland county, Judy Centers play an important role in the communities they serve. Judy Centers provide services or connect families with local service providers for some of the following options:
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During the month of February, here in the United States we blissfully celebrate and honor the lives of African American’s through various celebrations to honor their accomplishments and momentous history known as Black history Month and/or African American History Month.
These celebrations are not only significant to the United States, as they are also recognized and observed in The United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada. As it is a way to not only honor but highlight the important contributions of African Americans to our nation’s culture and overall progress.
Valentine's Pudding Parfait
Easy and delicious pudding parfait, and it's pink for Valentine's Day!
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Additional Time10 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Ingredients
- One 3.9oz. package of chocolate instant pudding
- One 3.9oz. package of white chocolate instant pudding
- 4 cups of milk
- red food coloring
- 1 container of whipped topping, defrosted (I used Cool Whip)
- 1 chocolate candy bar (I used a Hershey bar)
- Valentine's Day sprinkles, red or pink (optional)
Instructions
- Prepare the chocolate pudding as directed with 2 cups of milk and put in the refrigerator to set.
- Pour 2 cups of milk in a second bowl to make the white chocolate pudding. Before you dump the packet in the milk, stir in 6 drops of red food coloring to turn the milk pink. Then add the white chocolate pudding mix and whisk together until blended. Put in the refrigerator to set. After about 5-10 minutes the pudding should be firm.
- Take 1/3 of the chocolate pudding and put it into an empty bowl. Do the same thing with the pink white chocolate pudding. TIP: An easy way to estimate 1/3 of the pudding is to use a utensil to make a peace sign on the pudding, and then scoop out one of the triangles.
- Mix 1/3 of the whipped topping (use the peace sign trick again!) into each of the bowls you just made that contain 1/3 of the pudding mixes. You should now have 4 bowls: one with chocolate pudding, one with pink white chocolate pudding, one with chocolate pudding mixed with whipped topping, and one with pink white chocolate pudding mixed with white topping.
- Layer the puddings into 4 clear glass mason jars or wine glasses in any order you'd like. To fill the jars as we have in the photos, spoon the puddings into individual disposable pastry bags (you could easily use a Ziploc bag instead). Snipped about a 1” opening and pipe a spiral, starting from the outside and working into the center. Hold the bag steady and rotate the jar. This allows you to place the pudding exactly where you wanted it. After doing each layer, tamp the jar a few times on a folded towel to level.
- Finish with a dollop of whipped topping, dividing the remaining 1/3 of the container among all 4 dessert cups.
- Make chocolate curls by peeling the chocolate bar with a vegetable peeler and garnish the pudding cups with them. Finish it off with some pink or red sugar sprinkles if you'd like!
Notes
If you don't want to bother with bags to pipe the pudding into your glasses, you can easily spoon the pudding in layer by layer. Add small amounts at a time, and use the back of your spoon to push the pudding against the edges of the glass to make those nice layers visible from the outside.
You could easily adapt this to any holiday. Change the pink to green for St. Patty's day, or just mix up a couple different pastel colors for Easter.
Yields 4 servings, but if you put them in smaller glasses, you can stretch it to more than that.
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