Proof is in the Pudding

Your correspondent's younger sister was in charge of the dessert for our Christmas feast this year, but unfortunately she arrived from Boston on Christmas morning with a cold to kill a rhino and had to politely decline.  Undaunted, I stepped in to fill the dessert void with my personal favorite creation: pumpkin fluff.

It wasn't until I had gathered all of the ingredients when I realized what I had done.  I had made a classic mistake.  My Christmas pudding

Desserts

was literally pudding.

Pudding

Nevertheless, with a little pumpkin and spice thrown in it became more than just Jell-O and went deliciously on top of homemade ginger cookies.  And it was far superior, I might add, to fruitcake.