dirt cake?

amiamish

Anyone have a good recipe for this? I'm making it for Jake's birthday party in individual cups....it's a "buggy bash."

TwoChickens

Broken up Oreos in chocolate pudding...halfway fill the cup with it.

The make "soil" with some more broken up Oreos. 

lucyfox

It's not really cake but you can do pudding in cups, on top put crushed up oreos (it looks like soil) then put gummy worms coming out of it.  I guess you could do the same thing with cupcakes too...just put the oreos on the frosting? 

joseysbride

We make this a couple times a month at our house (Rory loves making it and eating it), and this is what I do...

Make the chocolate pudding.

Divide the pudding in half, and mix one of the halves with cool whip.

Crush Oreos.

Layer in the cups:  chocolate pudding, Oreos, Cool Whip mixture, More chocolate pudding, and top with Oreos and gummy worms.

If you want an easy recipe for homemade chocolate pudding let me know.  It is so much better than the box stuff!

joseysbride

Another tip: You can make all the pudding and stuff in advance, but don't actually assemble the cups until the day of the party because the Oreos get really soggy after a day in the fridge.

j-w

I am having a bug bday for DS when he turns one and am making them as well! I think I am going to put poundcake in the very bottom, homemade chocolate pudding, then the crushed oreos and worms.

amiamish

All the recipes online call for cream cheese and such...like this:

Ingredients:

• 1/2 stick butter
• 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 2 pkg. (3-1/2 oz. each) vanilla instant pudding mix
• 3-1/2 cups milk
• 1 tub (12 oz. +) Cool Whip
• 2 pkg. (1-1/4 lb. each) Oreo Cookies, shred in food processor
• Gummy worms, if desired

Preparation

Cream cheese mixture: Cream together butter, cream cheese, and powdered sugar. Set aside.

Now mix together the dry pudding mixes and milk until smooth. Mix in Cool Whip. Now mix in cream cheese mixture.

Alternate layers of the crushed cookies and the pudding mixture that you made above, beginning and ending with the crushed cookies.

Notes

I serve my Dirt Cake in a glass flower pot with silk flowers in the center. I also use a garden tool as the spoon. Put gummy worms on top if you want.

joseysbride

I've made it that way once. It is more of a mousse type mixture that way.  Both are yummy, so it really just depends on the number of steps you want to deal with.

amiamish

 It's for a bunch of kids, so... which do you think they'll like better?

joseysbride

I think they'd like the one without the cream cheese.  The other isn't as thick and rich.

amiamish

Ok, Thanks sooo much!! That'll save a bunch of time and money too!