This very filling desert is perfect for bringing to picnics and serving with a tiny sand shovel in a kid’s sand bucket. And despite the moniker, the food tastes great!
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 24 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (18 ounce) package chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Oreo®)
- 3 ½ cups milk
- 2 (3.5 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 ½ (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup margarine, softened
- 1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping (such as Cool Whip®), thawed
Instructions
- Pulse the sandwich cookies in a blender until finely ground; set aside. Pour the milk into a mixing bowl, then whisk in the pudding mix until no dry lumps remain. Beat together the cream cheese and margarine until smooth, then stir in the pudding. Fold in the cookie crumbs and whipped topping until evenly blended. Spoon into a clean child’s bucket, cover, and refrigerate at least 30 minutes before serving.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 242 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 27 g |
| Cholesterol | 18 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 301 mg |
| Sugars | 19 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Can someone tell me how big a serving is?
Trolli Sour Crawlers make it amazing! For this recipe, I used chocolate cream Oreos. SO GOOD! I definitely would recommend this to friends and family.
Jeez, it may not sound appetizing, but give it a try sometime because it is a great dessert! I like to assemble mine in a large glass baking dish with a layer of extra cookie crumbs on top. I’m licking my lips looking at the empty baking dish- maybe I can scrape just a bit more off the side? Be right back-
I didn’t put it in a bucket, I just used a cup, but this was amazing, definitely making it again
I love this recipe! It was delicious
I just made this tonight for Easter Dinner tomorrow.. I think my guests will like it, the spoons sure tasted good! I put ”Peeps” around the edge of the 7″ plastic bucket and gummy worms coming out in the center & between ”Peeps”.. I reserved about 1/2 cup of ground up Oreo Cookies to put on top of the pudding mixture.. Now it looks like ”Dirt” !!
I thought this would be a fun dessert for my 3 boys. They absolutely loved it! I made it just as the recipe stated, but I also added in gummy worms and some more oreo crumbs at the top of the bucket. It was a big hit in our family! I’d definitely make it again.
While endlessly looking for a rich and entising dessert, I found this recipe, and just the name of it made it sound heavenly! I decided to use melted butter and soft cream cheese, mixed in with thick vanilla pudding. Yum! For a garnish, I just used chocolate chip cookies. Can’t wait to share it with the family!
I used golden Oreos instead of regular to make a Bucket of Sand. I saved a cup of crushed cookies to layer on top. I reduced the amount of margarine blended with the cream cheese and will likely leave it out next time as I don’t think it’s necessary. You could also use Vienna Fingers instead of the Oreos. This recipe is a hit!
Made this for a 4th of July picnic in a small beach bucket. It was such a HUGE hit! The kids can’t get enough of this and the adults went for seconds too! My kids had a blast helping me make “the mud”. I see this as a new tradition for us! Thanks for sharing!l FYI: I would even taste good added to an oreo cookie or graham pie crust and served as a pudding type pie.
I used two boxes of Jello brand Oreo pudding. I also added a small box of sugar free vanilla pudding to make it a little thicker. I lined the bottom of my pan with whole oreos instead of making the crust. I added whipped topping and cream cheese to the pudding mixture and then spread over the cookies. I topped that with broken cookies, then a layer of whipped topping, then another layer of cookies. I used 1.5 packages of oreos in all. YUMMY! Very thick and delicious!
Everyone loved this dessert at my son’s graduation party. Very tasty. I don’t know why it is called Bucket of Mud when it looks like cookies and cream but it was really good.
Very tasty dessert.
Have made this for a long time.Put it in a flower pot & decorated it with gummy worms. Easy & very good.
this stuff is sooooo yummy ! gailybean you are very mean.
This recipe is delicious and fun to have your child/children make with you. First time I made it, I did the gummie insects (you can get more then worms) and then put it in the largest toy dump truck I could find. I then had the children serve themselves from the truck. MESSY and FUN. And as a side note, my little girl is not fat, extremely active and healthy. I served this dessert at her birthday party (as well as cake and ice cream) the last three years and then the children played outside. I guarantee those children burned more calories than they consumed.
I have made dirt for years and placed the mixture in a terra cotta pot and placed a bouquet of silk flowers in it with gummy worms and bugs crawling around the flowers. We used a new garden shovel for the spoon. I also used chocolate pudding to make it mud colored! Great recipe!
The first time I had this, (it was called “dirt” then), I was visiting my parents and at supper, there was a flower pot in the middle of the table with plastic flowers in it. When we were finished eating, Dad said, “Ready for dessert?” Then he took a spoon and started dipping out the “dirt” in the flower pot. I was shocked for a minute until I realized what it was. Dad had great fun pulling that joke on us. This is very delicious too!
This is a classic and especially fun for spring and summer time groups! I have made this with my boys a few times and they love it. Like another user posted I also like to use chocolate pudding! It’s delicious and fun even though the name is rather gross. And finding the worms in the mud is kind of exciting. I like to fold a few (gummy) worms into the mud, and strategically place some on the top poking out.
My children love this!
a friend of mine made this for a church potluck once and put gummy worms in the top. It was a great hit with the kids.