Recipe: Italian Ricotta Cheese Pudding

This is light, refreshing, and absolutely ridiculously easy to make. If it's too hot out to cook or you need an elegant finish to a summer meal, this is the dessert you've been waiting for.

Ingredients

• 1 15-ounce container ricotta cheese
• very finely grated zest of 1 large orange
• juice of 1/4 orange
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/4 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
• 5 cinnamon graham cookie sticks, crushed

Directions

Combine all ingredients in a medium mixing bowl; mix well. Cover and refrigerate overnight for the flavors to develop, then spoon into decorative serving glasses. Sprinkle cookie crumbs over the top of the puddings.

Serves 4-6.

This recipe was written by Mary Bilyeu and originally posted on AnnArbor.com on Aug. 4, 2011.