Sweet Maple Parfaits

Ingredients

• 1 tsp butter 
• 3.4 oz jell-o vanilla flavor pudding instant
• 0.5 cup milk cold
• 0.5 cup pancake syrup divided
• 0.3 cup planters pecans chopped
• 24  vanilla wafers crushed
• 1.5 cups cool whip whipped topping divided thawed

Equipment

• bowl
• whisk
• aluminum foil
• microwave

Directions

1. Microwave nuts, 2 Tbsp. syrup and butter in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 2 min., stirring every 30 sec.
2. Spread onto large sheet of foil; cool completely.
3. Beat pudding mix and milk in medium bowl with whisk 2 min.
4. Add 1/4 cup of the remaining syrup; mix well. Stir in 1 cup COOL WHIP.
5. Spoon 1/3 of the wafer crumbs evenly into 6 dessert dishes; top with layers of half each of the pudding mixture and remaining COOL WHIP.
6. Sprinkle with remaining wafer crumbs. Repeat layers of pudding and COOL WHIP; top with nuts.
7. Refrigerate 1 hour.
8. Drizzle remaining syrup over parfaits just before serving.