Dirt Cake Help!

[DisFam95]

My son wants a dirt cake and I've never made one. I've seen the recipes and none of them have cake! A co worker said she used crumbled cake in hers. Is this going to be rigid enough to cut or am I going to need bowls instead of plates to serve?

Anyone ever use cake in theirs?

 

[mmouse37]

Every dirt "cake" I have seen is really more of a pudding, not a solid cake. It is usually served in a flower pot or trifle bowl and spooned out. I have seen it with cake pieces or brownie pieces, or cookie crumbs. Other ingredients are usually pudding and whipped cream with some gummy worms for good measure!!! Or, a plastic flower (if served in a flower pot).

MJ

 

[blana]

The ones I've fixed are basically a very thick pudding with cookies crumbled. While you can't cut & serve (need a spoon for serving), it doesn't spread once on the plate, so it doesn't need a bowl. But it IS easier to eat with a spoon than with a fork.

 

[Tiffylv]

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[DisFam95]

thanks. All the recipes I see just use cookie crumbs. I've got a cake in the oven and will crumble that in with the cookies hoping to give it more substance. Who knows!

 

[jdb in AZ]

There's no hard and fast rules. The kids care about the taste, not the way the cookie crumbles. I made a kitty litter cake once that used crumbled cake, cookies, and it was held together with pudding. It was served with a new(!) pooper scooper.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/7415/kitty-litter-cake/

 

[SirDuff]

What we've done is bake a cake in a pan that is an inch or so taller than the cake (like a tall 9x13 pan). After cooled, put cake back in pan and top with dirt icing. So, the top looks like dirt, but the there is actually cake to eat.

 

[Tiffylv]

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[NHdisneylover]

As everyone says, it is more of a thick pudding and served up with a spoon (but not runny so serving on plates is fine).
When we had that at a birthday party, I bought new plastic pails and washed them well then made the cake in a large one and served into little ones--the kids seemed to enjoy that.

 

[tcufrog]

I made some awesome cupcakes and a cake for my older son's last birthday that weren't dirt cake but looked like it. I baked a chocolate cake and cupcakes. I then put a thick layer of chocolate frosting on them and then covered them with crumbled up Oreos minus the inside layer. I poked holes in the sides and tops of the cake and cupcakes with a straw and stuck in the holes half of a gummy worm. I also stuck on them plastic insects I bought at a party supply store. The kids loved them and I got tons of compliments from the parents and the staff of the nature center where we held the party.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Here is one that looks like a cake….






Ingredients:

8 oz. cream cheese (softened)
2 tablespoons butter
2 small boxes instant vanilla pudding
3 cups milk
16 oz. cool whip
1 large pack of Oreos
Gummy Worms

1. Cream together butter and cream cheese.
2. In a seperate bowl, mix pudding and milk.
3. Mix the above two mixtures together, then fold in cool whip.
4. In a food processor, process oreos until they look like dirt.
5. In a casserole dish layer 1/3 of the oreos on the bottom. Then spread pudding/cool whip mixture evenly on top. Next, top with remaining oreos and spread evenly.
6. Place gummy worms on top however you like. We pressed a few in deep so they looked like they were coming up from the ground. Have fun with it!

 

[IDoDis]

It's not really a cake, even though it's called Dirt Cake. It's more like pudding and crushed Oreos. I crush the Oreos in a food processor. Here's one I made for a picnic. I put the ingredients in a flower pot with a fake flower and used a small gardening trowel as the serving spoon. It is always a huge hit with the kids.

 

[lizabu]

You could put your cake in the bottom of the dish. Put the pudding on top of that. Then cover with cookie crumbs.