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Hi everyone, for the last couple weeks, we have been talking about halloween appetizer recipes for a party and this is another great idea for your halloween dessert table, this Oreo dirt cup recipe.

Oreo Dirt Cup Recipe

Let’s Break It Down

Last week, was also a great idea for a halloween dessert table, It was a recreation of the Tik Tok viral butter board.

I made buttercream, dyed it purple, green and orange and paired it with halloween themed sugar cookies to make a butter “cream” board.

What Is This Oreo Dirt Cup Made Of?

These graveyard Oreo dirt cups are sort of a dirt pudding idea that consist of 4 things: 

chocolate pudding, Oreo cookie crumbs, gummy worms, and tombstone sugar cookies and also there is the optional chocolate rocks.

Halloween Pudding For These Oreo Dirt Cups

How Do You Make The Chocolate Pudding?

For these Halloween pudding cups, I made the chocolate pudding very simply just by making jello instant pudding. All this entails is sprinkling the instant pudding mix into some milk and stirring it with a whisk until well combined.

Then stick it in the fridge to set for 5 minutes.

Jello Instant Pudding Without Milk

If you do not want to use milk, don’t worry, these are so other things you can use to mix with the instant pudding mix.

  • Almond Milk
  • Cashew Milk
  • Coconut Milk
  • Rice Milk
  • Cool Whip or Any Other Whipped Topping Like Whipped Cream
  • Greek Yogurt

I would not recommend using water because it won’t be creamy.

Oreo Dirt Cups For Adults

Making an adult version of this recipe is so easy. Just replace 1/3 of a cup of the milk with Bailey’s. This making Bailey’s chocolate pudding.

This is the same thing that I did in my St. Patrick’s Day Oreo Pudding Cake which was a guest post for combinegoodflavors.com.

You could also use the same technique as in my alcoholic gummies recipe and make alcoholic gummy worms.

These sugar cookies were just your basic sugar cookie recipe tinted black with activated charcoal and then cut into tombstone shapes.

Activated Charcoal

In the past, I used gel paste food coloring which is great for so many things but it can be almost impossible to get black or a dark grey. That is why I use this product.

Activated charcoal is just a tasteless powder that is added to the rest of your dry ingredients when you mix up your sugar cookie dough.

This is also a product that I used to make my witch’s cauldron bread bowl with spinach and artichoke dip

Guides That Were Used For These Cookies

There are a couple of things that could be used to make the tombstone shape. I had a tombstone shaped cookie cutter last year but then I moved and now I can’t find it. So the handmade template route it is.

I just drew a basic tombstone shape on a piece of paper and cut it out.

The second thing that could be done is using halloween themed cookie cutters.

Gummy Worms For These Spooky Dirt Cups

I bought these gummy worms from amazon but you can do any gummy worms.

Sour Gummy Worms?

Not Sour?

Bugs?

Realistic?

Let me know down in the comments if you like your halloween desserts to be realistic. I personally think it turns me off from eating it if it is very realistic.

Here Are The Ingredients

Also, something you could do make them homemade with my gummy bear recipe.

Molds

This is perhaps the easiest step in the whole process. Making the “dirt”.

I just put the Oreo cookies in a ziplock bag and bashed them up with my favorite tool. The meat tenderizer. Or you can use a rolling pin.

Optional chocolate pebbles

In addition to the crushed cookie crumb, you can also put these chocolate candy pebbles text to your cookie to make it look a little more realistic.

How I Made Oreo Dirt Cup Recipe

Now the hard part is over and it’s just time to layer.

To build these dirt cups in I got these dispoable clear pudding cups. That way your guests can just throw them away.

What Else Can You Put On This Halloween Dessert Table?

Halloween Brownies

These are just very simple fudge brownies made with both a little bit of cocoa powder and melted chocolate chips that is then frosted with orange frosting, sprinkles and halloween M&M’s.

halloween brownies

Halloween Cake Roll

This recipe is a slab of chocolate cake that is rolled up with chocolate frosting and all your favorite halloween candy. It is then sliced into portions.

Halloween desserts

Caramel Apple Hot Chocolate

This recipe is a hot chocolate bomb with apple cider and hot chocolate powder encapsulated in a caramel shell so that when it melts in hot heavy cream, the result is a warm caramel apple hot chocolate.

Horror Movie Marathon Popcorn

This popcorn recipe was meant to make and then plant your butt on the couch and watch a horror movie marathon.

I made 3 flavors: a cheese, herb and garlic flavor, an original butter flavor, and a sweet caramel corn flavor.

how to make popcorn with caramel

If there are any question, please let me know but and that’s pretty much it! That’s how to make these spooky halloween Oreo dirt cups. Thank you so much for joining me today.

Leave me a comment for any questions that you might have or any suggestions for anything you want to see next.

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Remember, don’t be afraid to “bake” a mess. And I’ll see you next time.

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Dirt Cups

Yield: 8 Cups
Prep Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

A halloween themed treat layored with oreo crumbs, instant jello pudding and gummy worms. Topped off with a tombstone sugar cookie.

Ingredients

Dirt Cups

  • 5.9 oz box of jello instant pudding mix
  • 3 cups of whole milk
  • 2 row of original Oreos.
  • 24 gummy worms

Tombstone Cookies

  • 1 cup of all purpose flour
  • 1/4 of a tsp of baking powder
  • 1/2 Stick of Unsalted Butter
  • 1 Egg
  • 6 TBSP of Granulated Sugar
  • 1/4 tsp of salt
  • 2 TBSP's of a Cup of Heavy Cream
  • 1/2 tsp of Activated Charcoal

Instructions

Sugar Cookie Dough

  1. Sift together the dry ingrediants: activated charcoal, flour, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. Set aside. Preheat the oven to 350•.
  2. Place the softened unsalted butter and the sugar into a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Or you can use a hand mixer.
  3. Beat the butter and sugar until combined, light and fluffy.
  4. Add the heavy cream and egg mixture and beat until incorperated.
  5. Add in the dry ingrediants little by little and fold them in until just incorperated.
  6. Wrap the dough up in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Prep Other Ingredients

  1. Combine the instant pudding mix and milk in a medium size bowl and stir to combine. Cover and put it in the fridge for 5 minutes.
  2. Place the cookies in a ziplock bag and bash them up with a rolling pin until you get crumbs.

Making the Tombstone Cookies

  1. On a lightly floured surface, roll out your dough to 1/4 of an inch thick.
  2. With a tomb stone cookie cutter, cut out 4 cookies.
  3. Bake at 350• for 10 minutes.
  4. Let cool completely.

Putting Together the Dirt Cups

  1. Add a layor of oreo crumbs to the bottem of each cup.
  2. Using a cookie scoop add 1 scoop of chocolate pudding. Level off with an ofset spatula.
  3. Add one gummy worm. ( Or however many your heart tells you it needs)
  4. Repeat steps 1-3 until the cup is fully filled up. Make sure to add the cookie crumbs on top.
  5. Place 1 tombstone standing up into each cup.

If you have any questions or comments please don’t hesitate to leave a comment down below, message me on instagram, facebook or leave me an email. 

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