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WORM DIRT CAKE

This popular "novelty" cake is a hit at children's parties, especially around Halloween. You'll receive many appreciative compliments from your guests such as "Ewww, that's gross!"

It really resembles a pudding more than it does a conventional cake. If you serve it as an everyday family dessert, rather than as a fun decorative element, it's possible that your family may not understand it!

1 to 1 1/4 lb. pkg. Oreo cookies
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
3 cups milk
1 (12 oz.) tub Cool Whip (can use chocolate)
2 (3 1/2 oz.) pkg. instant vanilla or chocolate pudding
1/2 tsp. vanilla
4 gummy worms and/or other critters

Crush Oreos. Put 1/3 of the crushed Oreos into a new, clean flower pot. Set aside.

Mix butter, cream cheese and sugar and vanilla together. Set aside.

Combine milk and pudding mix. Fold Cool Whip into the pudding.

Fold together pudding mixture and butter-cream cheese mixture.

Layer this mixture (about 1/3 of it) onto the crumbled cookies in the pot. Next, add another layer of the pudding mixture, then another layer of cookie crumbs, continuing until all ingredients are used.

As you're layering the ingredients, decoratively place several gummy worms and critters in the "soil" so they will be seen emerging. If you have a toy (clean) garden trowel, a plastic daisy, or some edible flowers, these can also be used creatively to embellish the presentation.

Chill in refrigerator for 3 to 4 hours before serving.

Submitted by: CM

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· Sep 16 · #78685

April (Louisiana) says:

I make this all the time. The cutest one I ever made was for easter. It had gummy worms, Marshmallow bunnies and chicks, plastic eggs and in the center a huge frog with its tounge out and a bee on it. I also used green frosting to make sprigs of grass here and there. This was a triple batch in a very large pan, but absolutely adorable.

· Oct 10 · #80586

Saul (Arizona) says:

I just got some chocolate pudding, crushed some Oreos and mixed them together then got some gummy worms and hid them in there. It's a fast recipe and also very delicious and saves you a lot of time and money.

· Oct 28 · #82119

Tiffany (Georgia) says:

I used this recipe and it was great! I added to it by making a graveyard with candied pumpkins, edible spiders, sugar cookie tombstones, and brownie coffins. Had fun with the halloween theme!:o)

· Nov 2 · #82533

Kim (California) says:

To Julie you can use chocolate pudding and put it into cups. They are yummy. :)

· Jan 23 · #92150

Bunny (Wisconsin) says:

My sister had a dirt cake for her birthday when she was little. No one touched it, because they thought it was real dirt. Now I'm going to give her another one...I know she will appreciate it. Everyone loves dirt cake!

· Mar 24 · #97232

J Doerr (California) says:

I am an early childhood special education teacher. Every year the children participate in a month long unit on Spring. It includes, growing flowers, vegetables, and plants from seeds. As the culminating activity we make Worm Dirt Cake. We prepare the different components of the recipe in small groups and come back together to mix it all up. The final dessert is mixed in a flower pot, with lots of gummy worms, allowing individual students a short turn to stir it. We even plant a few seeds (M&Ms) in the pot and top it off with a silk flower. During the process we review what is needed for a seed to grow. When we are all done I don't worry about chilling it. I just dish it up into small cups and we have a wonderful snack.

· Apr 7 · #98216

Nicole (Tennessee) says:

This recipe is wonderful! It's so easy my 4 yr old helped me. We're making it for an Easter party we are attending tomorrow. I let my daughter pick out the topper- Bunny face path markers and some flowers. We will also garnish it with some colored Easter eggs. I think it will be a big hit!

· Apr 25 · #99547

Krizzle (Texas) says:

It was a bit sweet for my tastes, so I added some cocoa. Otherwise perfect recipe!

· Jun 13 · #102709

Dirt Mom (California) says:

I'm decorating it like a offroad short course track with little offroad trucks for my racer son. He may be 26 this year but that boy loves dirt cake.

· Jun 15 · #102833

Anglea (British Columbia) says:

I have used this recipe many times. I know a few people had commented that they had a problem with the icing being gooey or sticky. I put my cookies in the freezer for just under 5 minutes and then they crumble perfectly.

· Aug 27 · #107807

Sheletta (Washington) says:

I made it for the first time about 8yrs ago and my kids loved it. I am pregnant again and is thinking of making it for the baby shower. What do you think? Any ideas on wht to put it in or how to decorate it?? Let it rip yall.....

· Sep 18 · #109404

Danielle (Indiana) says:

For a baby shower you could decorate it with rubber ducks. If you use white chocolate pudding (even just a little) you could dye it blue for a pond and use some fake flowers etc... Or you could do a chocolate strawberry dirt cake. That would be yummy too. Good luck!!!

· Oct 10 · #110857

MeganJoy (Alberta) says:

So delicious, everyone loved it!

· Oct 10 · #110859

MeganJoy (Alberta) says:

Okay I have done the math and broken it all down. If you divide the recipe into 10 servings and they each get one gummy worm, it is 453 calories, 19g of fat, 65.5g Carbs, 45.7g sugars, Protein 5.6g.

Definitely not as bad as the Keg's carrot cake or East Side Marios deep fried cheesecake!

· Oct 23 · #111760

Marsha (Georgia) says:

I have made it with vanilla pudding with Nilla wafers. Put it into small cups with a gummy life saver on top with an umbrella. They are really cute.

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