NOTE: Make a day ahead for a great party centerpiece. You will need a large (10 inch) flower pot (no hole!) and some artificial flowers.
2 (8 oz.) cream cheese
2 (3 oz.) instant vanilla pudding
3 c. milk
2 (16 oz.) Cool Whip
2 tsp. vanilla
1 lg. pkg. Oreo cookies
Gummy worms (optional)
Cream sugar and cream cheese. Beat milk, pudding and vanilla until thick, then add to cream cheese mixture. Fold in Cool Whip. Grind Oreo cookies in blender.
Layer Oreo mixture and creamy mixture, hiding gummy worms in flower pot, ending with cookie mixture on top. Chill overnight. Put flowers into "dirt" and surprise your guests when you serve your centerpiece for dessert! Makes enough for 2 pots.
FLOWER POT DESSERT (DIRT CAKE)
1 (20 oz.) pkg. Oreos
3/4 c. powdered sugar
1/2 stick butter, softened
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 (12 oz.) Cool Whip
2 (3 1/2 oz.) pkgs. French vanilla pudding
3 1/2 c. milk
Gummy worms, optional
Crush oreos. Cream sugar, butter and cream cheese. Mix pudding and milk. Fold in Cool Whip. Combine with cream cheese mixture. In a flower pot, layer Oreos and pudding mixture, ending with Oreos. Chill. When ready to serve, insert silk plant or flowers and put gummy worms on top of "soil". Have fun and enjoy! Add pecans
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The one from RecipeZaar looked good, as did the southern living one.
DIRT DESSERT
NOTE: Make a day ahead for a great party centerpiece. You will need a large (10 inch) flower pot (no hole!) and some artificial flowers.
2 (8 oz.) cream cheese
2 (3 oz.) instant vanilla pudding
3 c. milk
2 (16 oz.) Cool Whip
2 tsp. vanilla
1 lg. pkg. Oreo cookies
Gummy worms (optional)
Cream sugar and cream cheese. Beat milk, pudding and vanilla until thick, then add to cream cheese mixture. Fold in Cool Whip. Grind Oreo cookies in blender.
Layer Oreo mixture and creamy mixture, hiding gummy worms in flower pot, ending with cookie mixture on top. Chill overnight. Put flowers into "dirt" and surprise your guests when you serve your centerpiece for dessert! Makes enough for 2 pots.
FLOWER POT DESSERT (DIRT CAKE)
1 (20 oz.) pkg. Oreos
3/4 c. powdered sugar
1/2 stick butter, softened
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 (12 oz.) Cool Whip
2 (3 1/2 oz.) pkgs. French vanilla pudding
3 1/2 c. milk
Gummy worms, optional
Crush oreos. Cream sugar, butter and cream cheese. Mix pudding and milk. Fold in Cool Whip. Combine with cream cheese mixture. In a flower pot, layer Oreos and pudding mixture, ending with Oreos. Chill. When ready to serve, insert silk plant or flowers and put gummy worms on top of "soil". Have fun and enjoy! Add pecans
chocolate pudding and crushed Oreo cookies on top,you can put a couple of gummy worms on top.
that's the only dirt dessert that i know
"Ghosts in the Graveyard"
3 1/2 cups cold milk
2 (4-serving size) pkgs. chocolate-flavor instant pudding & pie filling
1 (12 oz.) tub Cool Whip; thawed
1 (16 oz.) pkg. chocolate sandwich cookies; crushed (in food processor or blender)
Make pudding as directed on package; let stand 5 minutes. Stir in 3 cups Cool Whip and 1/2 of the crushed cookies.
Spoon into 13x9" dish; sprinkle with remaining crushed cookies. Refrigerate 1 hour.
Decorate with candy pumpkins, rectangular sandwich cookies (as tombstones) and spoonfuls of Cool Whip (as ghosts).
I know it has chocolate Oreo cookies in it. my uncle made some once, put it in a new plastic planter & stuck artificial flowers in it,pretty neat.
Choc pudding, prepared, crushed oreo cookies. gummi worms, fake flowers, anything else you want to stir in, choc. chips......