The girls and I finished our first "dirt" cake today. It looks great and tastes awesome! The girls had lots of fun making it. They got to add all the ingredients while me or another adult mixed. This helped to keep the mess to a minimum. The girls really had fun just putting the ingredients in the bowl and then helping make the layers. I didn't have a pail or trowel to use so we used a 9 x 13" dish. In between the layers I let them add gummy worms. They also got to add a few to the top and of course no one is a chef unless they taste what they make. :) They got to lick the bowl with the pudding cream layer in it and eat a few of the gummy worms.
Also, instead of using the rolling pin and a ziploc bag, I used my Ninja cutting machine. Any blender will do just as good. I found that the cookies wouldn't stick together as bad if I chopped them. Rolling the cookies just crushes and compacts them together so they stick together and make them hard to spread over the pudding.
Some recipes for this "dirt" cake suggest using chocolate pudding to add to the "dirt" effect; however I chose to use vanilla pudding to give the cake a little more variety.
I hope you all enjoy making your "dirt" cake as much as we did. If you have an other suggestions or comments please feel free to leave them or ask.
It was yum!!
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