Dirt Dessert ???

Hello!! What you can do is put fake poinsetta's on top of the 'dirt'. Also you can make 'sand', use the vanilla oreo's instead of chocolate. Then you put those little umbrellas on top.

I make this all the time it is my step-mom's recipe all the kids love it.
1 pkg oreos
1 8oz cream cheese
1 c. powdered sugar
1/2 c of melted butter
2 8oz of coolwhip
2 small pkg of choc instant pudding

Crush oreos into fine pieces (I use a food processer)set aside 3/4 cups of crushed oreos for later. Pour the rest of the oreos into a 13x9 pan and smooth out then pour over melted butter. Bake at 350 for a couple of minutes just to make the crust.
Mix cream cheese powdered sugar and 8 oz of cool whip together.
In seperate bowl make pudding according to pkg.
Then layer the cream cheese mixture over the crust.
Then layer the pudding over the cream cheese.
Then spread 8 oz of cool whip over the pudding mixture. Then sprinkle your 3/4 c of oreos over the top and then chill.
Hope this helps.

The one i know about is one my mom used to make and i make for my boys now. you make cupcakes and when they come out of the oven you put just a little bit of icing just enough to make the crushed oreos stick and then push a gummy worm into the center where it is partly sticking out. I also found this one not sure if this is what u are talking about or not
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Dirt-Cake-I/Detail.aspx
Hope this helps

INGREDIENTS:
20 ounces crushed Oreo's
12 ounces Cool Whip
8 ounces cream cheese
4 ounce box vanilla pudding
3 1/2 cups milk
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine
PREPARATION:
Cream butter, cream cheese, sugar all together- set aside.
Mix pudding and milk together and then add cool whip (use large bowl).
Add cream cheese, mix.
Fill in a flower pot, starting with pudding mixture, cookie crumbs, worms. End with cookie crumbs so it looks like dirt in the pot. Refrigerate 1 or 2 hours. Insert some plastic flowers, if desired, so it looks like the flowers are growing in the pot. Top off with gummi worms.

Hi M.,

We made this for my SIL's wedding shower and it was a hit. We put the desserts in flower pots and served it with little garden shovels. Maybe you can do this Christmas-style!

Here's the recipe I used:

Dirt Dessert

1 - 20 oz pkg oreo cookies
1 - 8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened
2 - 3 oz pkg French Vanilla instant pudding
3 1/2 c. milk
1 - 12 oz carton Cool Whip
(added chocolate cake layer)

Blend cookies in blender til they resemble potting soil. Set aside. In large bowl beat cream cheese til light. Beat in dry pudding mix. Slowly stir in milk, combining well. Fold in whipped topping. In 8 x 10 inch clay flower pot or large bowl, alternate layers of cookie crumbs and cream cheese mixture, ending with thick layer of cookies.

Merry Christmas,
A.

This is the recipe I use

Dirt Dessert
From: ____@____.com (Laura Aden)
Date: 3 Aug 1993 14:03:51 GMT

1 Planter
Plastic Flowers
1 Spade
Cellophane or wax paper
candy rocks (optional)
gummi worms (optional)
2 - 1lb packages oreo cookies
1/2 stick margerine
8 oz cream cheese
1 cup powder sugar
3 1/2 cups milk
2 small packages french vanilla instant pudding mix
12 oz cool whip

Mix with blender: margerine, cream cheese and powder sugar.
Mix in separate bowl: milk, pudding mix and cool whip.
Combine the above.
Crush oreo cookies with cream left in the middle (blender or
chopper/mixer works well).
Line bottom of planter with cellophane/wax paper.
Put layer of oreos then creamed mixture - continue until mixture
is used up and last layer is oreos.

Garnish with gummi worms and candy rocks and serve with the
spade.

This is the one I grew up with. It is the best!

Dirt Cake

8 oz. Cream cheese
½ Cup butter
1 Cup powder sugar

Cream together and set aside

2 – 4 oz. Package of instant vanilla pudding made with 1 Cup of milk – then add the biggest size cool whip. Blend together with pudding and cream cheese mixture.

1 pound of oreo cookies rolled or ground fine.

Layer 1/3 cookies and ½ pudding mix. Top with ground cookies to resemble dirt. Top with gummy worms and flower.

10” flower pot – Line with aluminum foil.

Here's a recipe for the "Dirt" dessert:
http://www.greatpartyrecipes.com/dirt-dessert-recipe.html
Another great one with Oreo's I am making and putting into little decorative containers and handing out with gifts is simple and good too!
Just take a pkg. of oreo's. Put them into a Ziplock bag and crush well. Then mix a softened pkg. of cream cheese with the Oreo crumbs well. Roll into bite-size balls(like a gumball), and put onto wax-paper and into the fridge atleast 30 minutes. In the meantime on a double-boiler, melt some white chocolate bark, and reg. chocolate bark seperately. Take each ball and dip into the white choc. and lay onto wax paper again, then drizzle them with the dark chocolate. They make really pretty and yummy little candies!
Just thought I'd pass along!
C.

They have dirt at TGIF - from what I remember from theirs - its just chocolate pudding with crushed oreos on top and a gummy worms on top of that for the kids!

I think you will find it on kraftfoods.com. I love this web site. The recipes are easy and very good. I hope you find it. Merry Christmas.

Best Wishes,
L. Mehl

Sounds a bit like devilled eggs. Separate the cookie top from the white stuff , crush the cookies and the white stuff (there will be something you will need to add to the white stuff for smoothness - then there it is!

My mom made something similar with 'dirt' and cool whip in layers in a tall glass

Hi, While I do not have the recipe (I am sure one will appear for you, I do have a suggestion for presentation. My friend uses a lovely glazed flower pot(sized for the amount of "dirt") and put some plastic flowers in it. It is so cute and a wonderfully creative presentation.

HTH, Nana

here is the family favorite...so much so that my BIL calls it "pudding crack"!! Enjoy!!http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,196,147165-224197,00.html

(I copied and pasted the link because I dont know how to do it any other way...not so computer savy!!)

It is called "dirt dessert". I have a recipe for it.

1-12oz. Cream cheese
1 large box instant vanilla pudding
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup powdered sugar
1-12oz cool whip
1 pkg. Double-stuffed oreos

mix cream cheese and powdered sugar. Prepare instant pudding as directed on box. Mix pudding, cool whip, and vanilla.
Combine both mixtures (all ingredients). Crush oreos. Spread 1/2 of cookies on bottom of dish. Pour in the mixture. Spread another layer of cookies, mixture, etc,; ending with cookie sprinkles on top.

Enjoy!!!