Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Dirt Cake

1/4 cup softened butter
1 8-oz pkg softened cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
3 1/2 cups milk
2 small pkgs (3 1/2 oz) instant vanilla pudding or one vanilla and one chocolate
12 oz Cool Whip
36 crushed Oreo cookies--or more, if desired
Gummy worms and frogs, as desired
Chocolate candy rocks, as desired

Cream butter, cream cheese & powdered sugar. In another bowl, mix milk & pudding, then stir in Cool Whip. Combine the two mixtures.

Put 1/3 of crushed cookies in the bottom of a plastic bin (about 9x9"), foil-lined clay pot, or plastic sand pail. Next layer 1/2 of the pudding mixture with gummy worms mixed in. Layer another 1/3 of cookies, rest of the pudding mixture, and top with last layer of cookie crumbs with gummy worms crawling out of the "dirt." Use plastic or silk flowers on top, with frogs underneath and rocks spread around.

Serve when chilled, using a shovel or garden trowel. Makes 10-12 servings.