Dirt Dessert- Cooking with Dane & Duncan

DIRT DESSERT
My husband and I traveled to see our daughter and her family to celebrate an
UNBIRTHDAY PARTY.
We had missed Dane's 9th birthday and Evie's birthday in September.
Dane hasn't cooked with grandma yet, so what a great opportunity to make a belated  birthday  dessert.
My two grandsons, Dane & Duncan, will be making Dirt Dessert.
It is easy to make, and what says cooking with boys more than making dirt?

Let's Begin!

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 lbs. of Oreo cookies, crushed
• 3 large packages vanilla "Instant" pudding
• 12 oz. soft cream cheese
• 6 oz. Cool Whip (non-dairy topping)
• 41/2 cups milk
• 1 package gummy worms

(from Cooks.com)

Gather the ingredients.

 Gather the boys.

 Get your tools ready to crush the Oreo cookies.

 Put 1 1/4 lbs. Oreo cookies into a plastic bag.

 Crush them with a hammer or power tool (or rolling pin).

 Set them aside while you prepare the filling mixture.

 Pour the vanilla instant pudding mix into a  mixing bowl.

 Continue to add the dry pudding mix until all 3 packages are added.

  Add 12 oz. cream cheese.

 (Cut 1-8 oz. package in half to add 4 oz. of the cheese).

 Then, add the 8 oz. package of cream cheese to the bowl.

 Get the Cool Whip from the refrigerator.

 Add 6 oz. of the Cool Whip to the bowl.

 Measure 4 1/2 cups milk.

 Add to the mixing bowl.

Until all 4 1/2 cups are added. 

 Whip together until thoroughly mixed.

 Mixture will be thick and creamy.

Start to layer the crushed cookies and the pudding mixture. 

 The bottom layer is the crushed cookies.

 The second layer is pudding.

 Another layer of cookies.

Another layer of pudding. 

 Another cookie layer.

The last pudding layer. 

 Top with crushed cookies.

 Open the package of  gummy worms.

Add worms to the top of the "dirt" layer. 

 If you are making this in the summer, you can use a plastic beach bucket and scoop.

 Finished!

 Enjoy!

What a great time!

Little brother, Graham,  & Mom, Evie.

I made this dirt dessert for the first time when Evie was in kindergarten for her birthday treat for the class.

It has been a hit ever since, and now passed on to her boys.

ABOUT DIRT CAKE

According to newspaper and magazine articles, a recipe called "dirt cake" seems to have originated in the Midwest sometime in the 1980s. None of the articles we checked attribute this recipe to a particular person or food company. Nor do they reveal the story behind the name. It is plausable that "dirt cake" borrowed its moniker from another trendy rich chocolate dessert: "mud pie." Whatever the case, it was an immediate hit. Dirt cake was served at class parties, Brownie meetings, birthday parties and the like. It didn't take long for food companies to cash in on the deal. Dirt cake mixes were first marketed as packaged items in the early 1990's.

• The earliest mention we find of a recipe specifically called "Dirt Cake" was printed in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [newspaper], June 15, 1988 in a recipe exchange column. This article references a local reader who sent in a recipe for "Kansas Dirt Cake." The St. Louis Dispatch wrote an article on the topic July 24, 1989, Food section (p. 2): "Tickle Fancy With Dirt Cake." This article states "This recipe is apparently making the rounds of the area..." attesting to its popularity at that time. 
  (from The Food Timeline Cake History Notes)
  
  

UNBIRTHDAY PARTY FUN!

Thank you boys for a great day!

Halloween 2012  

Dane & Duncan

 Younger days!

Fun times!