7 puddings with eight Recipes

butter or margarine, all-purpose flour, chopped walnuts or pecans, eight-oz packages softened cream cheese, sugar, eight-oz containers whipped cream , such as cool whip, milk, instant pudding mix, any flavor

chinese or japanese short-grain sticky ( sweet ) rice, peanut or vegetable oil plus additional for greasing, cold water, chinese rock sugar pieces, dried pitted chinese jujubes , cut lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick strips, pitted prunes, quartered (1/3 cup), dried apricots , cut into 1/4-inch-thick strips (1/3 cup), dried sour cherries, diced (1/4 inch) candied orange peel, walnut halves, canned sweet red beans or sweet red-bean paste (from a 14- to 16-oz can)

sugar, water, grated peeled fresh gingerroot , or to taste, firm-ripe nectarines (about 1 3/4 lb), pitted and cut into 1/2-inch wedges, firm-ripe plums (about 1 1/2 lb), pitted and cut into 1/2-inch wedges, picked over blueberries, rinsed, fresh lemon juice, four to eight 1/2-inch-thick slices (about 1/2 lb) from loaf of brioche or challah, accompaniment:sour cream mascarpone

chopped peeled mango, seedless green grapes, halved, raisins, dried tart cherries, chopped dried pineapple, salt, hot cooked glutinous rice, divided, almond butter, maple syrup, divided, water, chopped almonds

sugar, cornstarch, milk (almond, soy or coconut beverage. not rice for df! coconut makes the prettiest pudding), beaten egg yolks, margarine (fleichmans unsalted for df) (optional) or 3 tbsp butter (optional), vanilla