Satisfy dessert cravings with Easy Shortcake Pudding in a Jar. Make sugar free. Puddings make wonderful summer desserts.
Preparing pudding in jars ahead of time makes them handy to serve. Can’t find the lids? Just cover the top with Glad Press’n Seal.

Use Colorful Jars
Use colorful jars like purple and blue ones for fun. Cover with regular jar lids, or use Press’n Seal which works perfectly.
You can pack these jars with pudding and put them in a cooler with ice. This works for taking them on a picnic.
Mix Milk and Buttermilk in Pudding
I like to mix milk and buttermilk in my pudding. The buttermilk makes a richer and creamier pudding. Here is a recipe I made at my daughter’s house.
Easy Shortcake Pudding in a Jar
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 cups 2% milk
- 1-1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1 large box sugar-free vanilla pudding
- 10-15 strawberries
- 1/2 package cream cheese
- Shortcakes (the packaged kind from the grocery store in the produce section)
- 4 shortbread cookies
Instructions
- Mix pudding, milk, and buttermilk with a whisk.
- Place cream cheese in a bowl and microwave for 20 seconds on defrost.
- Be sure that cream cheese is creamy with no lumps.
- Mix cream cheese in pudding.
- Wash strawberries, and slice them lengthwise into 4-5 slices per strawberry.
- Tear shortcakes into small chunks.
- Layer jars with pudding and shortcake chunks.
- Put strawberry slices against the jars all the way around after the first layer of pudding and shortcake chunks.
- Crumble cookie for topping.
- Optional: Layer bottom of jars with crumbled shortbread cookies.
Sugar-free angel food cake is fairly easy to find at the grocery store and makes great trifle low sugar puddings. If you feel like going all out, bake your shortcake from scratch like Dorie Greenspan’s Tender Shortcakes.
Easy Shortcake Pudding in a Jar is a quick recipe for busy moms to serve as dessert. You can substitute a trifle bowl or wine glasses if you don’t have jars. Or have fun with other different ideas of serving the pudding. Either way you come up with, your family and guests are sure to enjoy this light delicious dessert.

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I love desserts in jars. I really like the combination of lemon pudding and cream cheese. It’s like a strawberry lemon cheesecake. Yummy.