Dirt Cake
Dirt Cake is an easy dessert that is so much fun to make. It also gets quite the reaction from kids - although sometimes it might not be the reaction you were looking for! I made this one Christmas and just knew my nephews would love it. But they wouldn’t even try it and said it looked nasty. I didn’t take offense and was quite pleased that my dirt cake looked so authentic.
Here are the ingredients to make the cake -
1 cup sugar
1 stick of butter
1 8 oz. package of cream cheese
3 1/2 cups milk
2 small packages instand vanilla pudding
1 twelve oz. container of whipped topping
1 large package of Oreo Cookies(crushed)
To make it more fun, you will need -
1 clean flower pot
Some fake flowers
A clean spade for serving
1 package of gummy worms
Cling wrap to line the flower pot
Leave the cream cheese on the counter until it becomes room temperature or at least soft enough to mix. Mix sugar, butter and cream cheese together. Use another bowl to mix milk, pudding and whipped topping together. Combine the two.
Now it’s time to put the cake together. First start with a layer of crushed cookies. Then add a layer of the mixture on top of that. Then add another layer of cookies. End with a layer of cookies. Wrap cling wrap around the bottom of flowers and place in the center of the dessert. Play gummy worms on top of the cake.
I crush my Oreo cookies using my electric chopper but you could use a blender or just break them up with your hands - although that may take a while. Using the chopper really made it look like dirt and not just crushed up Oreos - hence the reason my nephews thought it was nasty.
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