This “mud and worms” dish yields a particularly tasty dessert. Although it is primarily a treat for children, adults also like it. Everyone will adore this Halloween, birthday, or fun treat.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 15 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- 12 chocolate cream-filled sandwich cookies
- 1 (3.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
- 2 cups milk
- 1 (3 ounce) package gummy worms candy
Instructions
- Place cookies into a resealable plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin into crumbs.
- Whisk together pudding mix with milk in a bowl, stirring for 2 minutes.
- Sprinkle about 1/3 of the crushed cookie crumbs into the bottom of a serving bowl and spoon chocolate pudding over crumbs. Smooth out the top of the pudding, then top with the rest of the chocolate cookie crumbs to resemble dirt.
- Poke gummy worms halfway into the dirt. Refrigerate until serving.
- For a more mud- or dirt-like appearance, untwist the sandwich cookies and scrape off the creme filling before crushing them.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 383 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 70 g |
| Cholesterol | 10 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 8 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 588 mg |
| Sugars | 48 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Great classic recipe – I just had the most amazing discovery. After mixing the pudding in my kitchen aid, I switched to a regular mixer blade and dumped the oreos in. Filling and all the mixed up great and you can’t even see the cream filling. Crushing the oreos is my least favorite part so this was perfect, in the same bowl!
Simple to make, exactly as recipe says. While not necessarily to my taste, kids and adults all loved it! I would increase the number of cookie crumbs listed but that is again strictly by my taste. I love how easy it is!
great
Quick, easy and delicious! What adult wouldn’t like this? I haven’t met one yet! 😉
Good for the boys’ birthday party. Biggest hit with adults. Haha. Kids at heart!
I made this for Easter brunch dessert. It was easy enough that I didn’t mess it up, and my little niece could help. We decorated it with green edible Easter grass, gummy worms, and candy speckled robin’s eggs. I tripled the recipe, which was really easy.
This recipe is so simple, and is guaranteed to be a hit at your next event! Adults & children alike raved about this sweet treat! You can switch the gummies to any gummy candy to suit your theme, but the worms are so fun & perfect for the “dirt”!
Kids LOVE this! If you like, add whip cream on top for snow!
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.
Awesome! Simple and yummy. My kids loves this and love helping me make it too. Thank you
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.
I made an adult version of these last night to take to a halloween party. In place of milk I added 16 oz of Cool Whip 3/4C of Kahlua and 1/4 C of vodka and use a 5.9oz box of pudding. Really good!
Awesome!!!!! So tasty!!!
It was really a hit with children they all were so happy to see something like this not only children it was also enjoyed by me .This is surely going to be my Halloween dish.
Easy and good. I use a food processor to crumble the cookies and it comes out real soft.
Adorable, yummy, and fun for kids and adults! My husband and I loved it as well. We used a bigger package instant pudding and added more Oreo crumbs to equal 6 pudding cups. VERY COOL!
I changed it a little bit with a layer of butterscotch pudding and mini milk chocolate chips as “rocks”
What a fun, yummy idea! So quick and easy. My three year old son loved it as did I!
I made this years ago for my worm eater, Nathan. He ate a real worm, then I saw this recipe and made it for my oldest boys often! Very fun!
I think it was an amazing way to treat my friends and family to an easy yet Delicious desert!!!
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!