The Easiest And Most Delicious Pumpkin Fluff Recipe (Simple Pumpkin Pudding)

Looking for a tasty and simple treat with all the fall flavors? Try this easy pumpkin fluff recipe! With just a few ingredients, you can whip up a deliciously creamy and flavorful pumpkin pudding in no time.

No Bake Pumpkin Fluff Ingredients

My sister Meg (the other half of These Old Cookbooks) passed on an old cook book to me from her husband’s grandmother. It’s called Delight Wier’s Kitchen, and I find it rather darling. The recipes come from a farm wife, and since I’m also a farm wife, I find myself rather enjoying her dialogue.

One the first recipes I marked was this Pumpkin Salad recipe. It’s more of a no bake pumpkin pudding or a pumpkin fluff since it has a container of whipped topping. Here is a list of ingredients for this pumpkin dessert.

• Instant Vanilla Pudding
• Milk
• Canned Pumpkin
• Pumpkin Pie Spice
• Cool Whip

I’m always delighted that women of that generation called Cool Whip desserts salads. I think I’d like to live in that time if I could consider a recipe with pudding and Cool Whip to be a salad and not a dessert. Oh how nice it would to be blissfully unconcerned with fruits, veggies, diets, fiber, etc.

What is pumpkin fluff?

Pumpkin fluff is a simple dessert made of just a handful of ingredients. This includes a box of instant vanilla pudding mix that lends to the pudding consistency. A tub of whipped topping makes it a little fluffier than a pudding, hence the name pumpkin fluff.

How to serve pumpkin fluff?

Serve pumpkin fluff in one of three ways. First, eat it with a spoon as a pudding. Secondly, pour the pumpkin mixture into a graham cracker crust as a pie. Lastly, serve it as a pumpkin fluff dip with dippers such as gingerbread cookies, graham crackers, ginger snaps, vanilla wafers, apple slices or animal crackers.

How to Make Pumpkin Fluff

Step by Step Instructions

1. In a large mixing bowl, whisk the instant pudding into the milk and canned pumpkin until smooth.
2. Stir in the pumpkin pie spices.
3. Fold in whipped topping until thoroughly combined.
4. Chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

Storage Instructions

Store in an airtight container or covered tightly with plastic wrap in the fridge for up to a week.

Recipe Variations

• Top with chopped nuts such as pecans or candied pecans.
• Stir in mini marshmallows, diced apples or chopped nuts for more texture.
• Use premade pumpkin pie spice or make your own by combining any of the following: ground nutmeg, ground cinnamon, allspice or ground cloves.
• Swap the canned pumpkin puree and pumpkin spices for pumpkin pie filling.
• Use fat free cool whip and/or sugar-free pudding, if desired.
• Pour into a prepared pie crust for a quick pie recipe.
• Top with whipped cream.

Recipe FAQs for Pumpkin Fluff

• This recipe is versatile. Serve it as a pudding, dip or pie filling (try it with a graham cracker crust).
• Use pumpkin puree not pumpkin pie filling.
• Let it chill to set up.

Fluff Recipes

This pumpkin fluff is not our first fluff recipe on the blog. We are huge fans of recipes that feature Cool Whip and pudding with a range of other yummy ingredients. I think we have a fluff recipe to meet everyone’s taste. Check out some of our favorites below.

Cinnamon Hot Fluff

Pistachio Fluff

Oreo Fluff

Cranberry Fluff

Pumpkin Desserts

• Easy Pumpkin Crunch
• Grandma’s Pumpkin Chiffon Pie
• Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
• Vintage Pumpkin Cake
• Pumpkin Ricotta Pancakes
• Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread
• Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins