Individual Chocolate Pudding Cheesecake Parfaits

What do you do when you see a recipe for a dessert that you absolutely, positively want to eat but you know that, if you make it, you will end up finishing the whole big pan, mostly by yourself?  Well, first you try to forget about it but that doesn't seem to work so good.  Then you wonder if you can invite half a dozen friends over for a coffee and dessert party but it's so hard getting people together on short notice...like...in about an hour?

Next you think about which of your neighbors you will unload the rest of the pan on... assuming you will actually give it up.  Lastly, you begin to rationalize the number of calories in the pan and the number of days it will take you to eat it all while knowing full well that you are lying to yourself because you will eat it all in less than half that time.  Back to trying to forget about it.  Sigh...

Since none of those things actually worked for me and I had to improvise another method.  I've seen so many variations of this dessert labeled 'better than sex' cake or 'sex in a pan' cake, etc.  They all seem to be some combination of cookies, no bake cheesecake and pudding.  So I decided to both skinny up the recipe and portion it down to individual servings in little jars.  Single, delicious, delectable, spoon licking, jar licking, bowl scraping little individual servings.  That method worked good.  Well, except for the part where I wanted to make it all over again the next day.  Still trying to work out that kink.  Enjoy!

Ingredients
3 Butter cookies
1/4 Cup low fat cream cheese
1 Tablespoon sugar
1 Teaspoon vanilla
1/4 Cup light or fat free prepared whipped topping
1 Tablespoon low fat milk
2 Tablespoons chocolate chips
3 Tablespoons sugar free chocolate pudding

Place the cookies in a plastic bag and crush them by using a rolling pin or even a soup can.  Spoon half the cookie crumbs into the bottom of an 8 oz. jar.

Combine the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, milk and whipped topping in a bowl and beat until thoroughly combined.  Spoon half the cheese mixture onto the cookie crumbs in the jar.  Sprinkle a tablespoon of the chocolate chips on top.

Spoon the chocolate pudding on top of the chips, top with the remaining cookie crumbs followed by the remaining cream cheese mixture.  Finish with the remaining chocolate chips and refrigerate for about half an hour.  This makes one, heavenly, serving but you can easily portion up the ingredients to make more jars.