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Editor: Liz Johnson
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Friday, 30 October 2009 03:00 |
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Happy Halloween from the staff of Sew4Home. In honor of this very spooky day dedicated to all things sugary, we'd like to share one of our favorite fast desserts: Dirt Cake. It's made from just four ingredients, all of which are delicious on their own: chocolate pudding, milk, Oreos® and Cool Whip®. Put them all together, serve them with a trowel, and you have a Halloween dessert to die for.
Ingredients
- 2 packages (4-serving size) JELL-O® Chocolate or Fudge Instant Pudding
- 3½ cups cold milk
- 1 tub (12 oz) Cool Whip® topping, thawed
- 1 large package Oreo® chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed
- 1 new, washed flower pot (7½" round) and 1 new, washed plastic trowel
Directions
Preparation time: 10 minutes (Time to consume: 30 seconds!)
Makes approximately 10-12 half-cup servings
- Crush cookies in a zippered bag with a rolling pin or in a food processor until they resemble potting soil.
- Prepare pudding according to package directions, using 3½ cups milk.
- Let stand five minutes.
- Stir in the Cool Whip and ⅓ to ½ of the crushed Oreos.
- Spoon into the plastic flower pot.
- Sprinkle remaining crushed Oreos over the top.
- Garnish with a flower.
- Serve with a trowel.
Going down to Halloween Town
For an even spookier Halloween version, use a 13" x 9" basking dish instead of a flower pot. Partially bury a plastic skeleton and/or some Gummy Worms in the top of the dirt cake. You can also add other decorations, like flat cookies decorated with icing that say RIP; candy pumpkins and ghosts.
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