Our "Dirt" Cake Experience

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.

Fun Foods for Kids Oreo "Dirt Cake"

I've been looking for fun thing for my nieces to do all Summer. We have cooked, done crafts, played new games, and even had a movie day. The next idea I wanted to do was to make a FUN dessert for them after dinner. My sister and I were talking about a neat dessert from our childhood that we remembered, Oreo cookie "dirt cake".

Just to help you understand how well your children will love this creative dessert, I have researched a little of the history and a few statistics about the Oreo cookie sandwich.

According to the Scribd website for Market research on Oreo, "The Oreo chocolate sandwich cookie was first introduced in Hoboken, N.J. in 1911.  Oreos today are far and away the world’s most popular cookie.  The Oreo family accounts for approximately 10 percent of all store cookie sales – a $3 billion market…The current target market for the original vanilla filling Oreo is children."  

Now that you understand the wonder of this cookie and the love your children have for it, lets get on with the recipe.  

Oreo Dirt Cake

Ingredients:

Kid's Sand Pail & Shovel Set OR 1 New 8" Flower Pot
1 1/2-2 lb. Oreo cookies
1 8 oz. tub Cream Cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 Stick Softened Butter
3 1/2 cups milk
2 small pkg. Instant Vanilla Pudding
12 oz. Cool Whip

Method:

Cream together cream cheese, powdered sugar and softened butter.

Mix 3 1/2 cups milk and instant pudding for 2 minutes and add 12 oz. Cool Whip.

Add liquid mixture to creamed mixture.

Place Oreo cookies in large ziploc bag and crush to desired "dirt" texture with a rolling pin.

Put 1 1/2 inches of cookie crumbs on the bottom of the sandpail or flower pot(lined with aluminum foil) and layer the pudding mixture and crumbs. End with pudding mixture.  Refrigerate for 2 hours.

Just before serving, add 1 more inch of cookie crumbs and decorate with gummi worms. 
 

 I found this recipe on the Kids Party Paradise website.  They also have many other creative ideas to add to this recipe or other fun recipes to try.  I hope you all enjoy.