Cooking Dirt

[The Princess]

Please post your recipe of dirt. I can't seem to find mine and I don't know the recipe off by heart.

 

[mel63]

2 cups cold milk
1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Chocolate Instant Pudding
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed
15 OREO Cookies, finely crushed, divided
10 worm-shaped chewy fruit snacks

POUR milk into large bowl. Add dry pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 2 min. or until well blended. Let stand 5 min.. Gently stir in whipped topping and 1/2 cup of the cookie crumbs.
SPOON into 10 (6- to 7-oz.) paper or plastic cups; top with remaining cookie crumbs.
REFRIGERATE at least 1 hour. Top with fruit snacks just before serving. Store leftovers in refrigerator. Dirt Cups can also be served frozen. Prepare as directed; freeze 3 hours or until firm.

Sand Cups
Prepare as directed, using 35 NILLA Wafers and JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding.



OR

Dirt Cake Recipe
1 med.-sized flower pot (plastic, about 8 inches in diameter)
1 garden trowel
3 lg. gummy worms
Plastic flowers
1 (16 oz.) bag Oreo cookies
1/2 c. (1 stick) butter, softened
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 c. confectioners sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 (4 serving size) boxes instant chocolate fudge flavor pudding
3 c. milk
1 (12 oz.) tub whipped topping, thawed

Crush cookies until they resemble potting soil; set aside. Cream butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth and fluffy; set aside.

Combine pudding mix and milk until well blended, then fold in whipped topping. Gently fold cream cheese mixture and pudding mixture together.

To put cake together, layer 1/3 of the cookie crumbs followed by 1/2 pudding mixture, 1/3 of crumbs, rest of the pudding mixture and topping with the remaining cookie crumbs. Refrigerate 10-12 hours. About 1/2 hour before serving, remove from refrigerator and decorate with flowers. Serve by digging out with garden trowel. Serves 10-12. Great fun!


Hints

Use a variety of food items to get different colored layers (horizons):

• crushed vanilla sandwich cookies
• crushed vanilla wafers,
• crushed graham crackers
• Grape-Nuts

Use coconut mixed with green food coloring for grass.
Put the pudding mixture in the center and the dry ingredients around the outside.
Use raisins, chocolate chips, etc. for rock outcrops. Gummy worms, frogs, etc. add animal life. Some will put a flower in the top.

 

[lewdyan1]

I love this!!!

 

[piratesmate]

I love this!!!

My kids do too! ...although I haven't made it in years. I never heard of freezing it - that sounds good to me! I was never much of a fan of the stuff myself, especially decorated with the gummi worms. LOL

I never used Oreos for the dirt though. Our grocery stores here have a display of loose cookies that you can mix & match and purchase by the pound. They always had a chocolate cookie that I used - just chocolate, no icing. My kids always said it looked more like actual dirt than what their friends' mothers made with Oreos.