Mud and Worms

Easy and fun! I used vanilla pudding instead of chocolate because I don't like an overload of chocolate. We used the idea from the other dirt pie recipes and used a pot and put in fake flowers.

I made this for my daughter's class Halloween party. Knowing other sugary treats are going to be given to the kids I decided to make this in small (5 ounce ) plastic cups. I doubled the recipe and it made 30 little cups.( see picture ) Following other reviewer's suggestion I got the chocolate crème Oreo cookies, with that kind no need to scrape the filling. Once you crush up the cookies, just separate by had the sticky pieces. I put 1 rounded tablespoon of the cookie crumbs in the bottom of all the cups then 1 tablespoon of the pudding that I gently spread around to adhere to the sides of the cups and then another rounded tablespoon of cookie crumbs. The last step was to stick in the gummy worms. The ones I had were gelatin free, ordered online.

Made for my daughter's Halloween party at her daycare and it went over very well! My daycare provider LOVED this idea and wants to do this each year now! I crushed an entire bag of a store brand sandwich cookie with chocolate filling, which I didn't remove because it really resembled muddy dirt (plus, I liked the consistency it gave). I used individual clear plastic cups, so each of the kids would have their own. I layered the "dirt" first, then a middle layer of pudding, and a final top layer of dirt again. Fun to make and eat, these will continue on as a yearly Halloween tradition!