Three Cheers for Cool Whip

A few weeks ago, B and I decided to feature dips for Treat Tuesday: Velveeta dip, taco dip, ranch dip, and pimento cheese. As I considered our menu, I realized that we were missing something sweet so I thought of a new dip: chocolate-chip dip. Far from revolutionary with this idea—Jason’s Deli has a delicious chocolate-chip mousse that I use as a dip with graham crackers rather than getting free ice cream—that’s how good it is—I bought a container of cool-whip, a box of chocolate pudding mix, and some chocolate chips. I mixed them together, put the mixture on a platter with some graham crackers, and an instant sweep dip was served. It was very good. So now I have two recipes in my Beginners Cookbook for Intuitive People: Chocolate Chip Dip and Cheese Potato Chips (melt cheese in microwave, pour over potato chips ).

…

Last week, B and I threw a party for our Harnett Off-Broadway students. In the past, when doing Harnett Off-Broadway, B and I have worked with two schools and thus had two parties: an ice cream sundae party with the K-2 school and a pizza party with the 3-5 schools. Since we only work at one school now, we decided to just throw one gigantic party: pepperoni pizza, cheese pizza, crazy bread, grape soda, orange soda, fruit punch soda, lemon-lime soda, vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, strawberry syrup, strawberry toppings, caramel syrup, chocolate chips, gummy bears, jelly beans, five types of sprinkles, whipped cream, cherries, and cheese-balls. After the kids finished their pizza, they were allowed to make their own sundaes. When I busted out the whipped cream, I had more than one kid ask me to squirt the whipped cream directly into their mouths. At first, I said no. Then, after everyone had gone through the line, I made a calculated decision and announced: “Alright! Everyone line up outside. Whipped cream directly in the mouth!” And so…one after one, the kids came. And one after one, B and I squirted whipped cream into milky mouths open and smiling with glee.

…

Today, I got pied in the face as part of a fund-raiser for Relay for Life. B wisely decided that I needed to wear diving gear: a snorkel, mask, and fins. I decided that I needed to wear my scrubs and an orange fish swim cap. I purchased and wore all of the above and had fifteen or so pies squished in my face. The cool thing? The dive gear was cancer awareness gear so a portion of the proceeds went to cancer research. And. The pies were made of cool-whip.

…

Three cheers for cool-whip (or I guess technically two for cool-whip, one for whipped cream)!
Hip-hip-hooray!

Three cheers for B and friendship!
Hip-hip-hooray!

Three cheers for celebrating life!
Hip-hip-hooray!
Hip-hip-hooray!
Hip-hip-hooray!

And don’t forget the spirit sprinkles.