Halloween Dirt Cups
Spooky Halloween Dirt Cups recipe, the perfect easy dessert made with jello pudding and crushed chocolate cookies. Make as a pumpkin patch, fun monsters or a graveyard scene. The perfect Halloween Party addition.
Ingredients
- 3.9 ounce chocolate fudge pudding mix or your favorite chocolate flavor
- 2 cups milk cold
- 8 ounce frozen whipped topping thawed, such as Cool Whip
- 12 chocolate cookies such as OREOs
- gummy body parts, milano cookies, etc for decorations. see notes for ideas
Instructions
- Pour milk into a mixing bowl. Sprinkle pudding mixture on top and whisk to combine. Make sure to mix well to get rid of all lumps! Add in the Cool Whip using a folding motion and stop mixing as soon as well combined. Crush OREOs in a food processor to desired consistency (we like a rough chop for dirt cups).
- Fill cup ⅓ full of pudding mixture then top with a layer of OREOs. You want the OREO layer to be thick enough to show up on the outside of the cup. See photos above. Top with another layer of pudding, then OREOS. Decorate with missing body part gummies or see our notes for other fun ideas like graveyard or monsters.
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Notes
- This recipe makes 4-6 Halloween Dirt Cups, depending on size of cup used.
- To make Monster dirt cups, use vanilla pudding. Dye ⅓ green, ⅓ purple and ⅓ orange. Fill cups ¾ full of pudding, then top with OREOs. Draw a corresponding face on each cup, Frankenstein, Dracula and a pumpkin (see photos above). For Dracula, when filling the cup, at the top, have it come to a V on on side of the cup for his widows peak (see picture above) and fill it in with OREOs.
- To Make graveyard dirt cups: Make as directed above, then: Get Pepperidge Farm milano cookies and cake writing gel. Write RIP on the cookies and stick them in the "dirt". Use candy pumpkins and skeletons to decorate. You may also use Peep ghosts.
- To make Pumpkin Patch dirt cups: Make as directed above, then decorate with candy pumpkins, and green tart and tinies for grass. OR: use coconut flakes dyed green. Include gummy worms, if desired and leaf sprinkles.
- Store leftovers in the refrigerator for 1-2 days. The OREOs will likely get a little mushy.
- For make ahead, we highly recommend just crushing the cookies and making the pudding and waiting for the last minute to assemble so that the cookies are nice and crunchy.
- We do not recommend freezing this recipe.
Nutrition
Serving: 1dirt cupCalories: 258kcalCarbohydrates: 47gProtein: 6gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 9mgSodium: 463mgPotassium: 271mgFiber: 2gSugar: 32gVitamin A: 236IUCalcium: 158mgIron: 1mg
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