Halloween Dirt Cups – Pumpkin Patch Pudding Dirt Cup Dessert
These Halloween dirt cups are a fun and easy dessert made with chocolate pudding, crushed Oreo cookies, and candy garnishes.
This dessert recipe is the perfect way to let the kids join in with making holiday treats. Since there is no baking or heating necessary, and the decorating is easy, and even the youngest kids can take part.
It’s just as much fun to assemble this dirt cup for Halloween as it is to eat it. Keep reading to get the Halloween dirt cup recipe!
Halloween dirt cup recipe ingredients:
To make this Halloween dessert, gather the ingredients below and let’s get started:
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- 1.5 ounces of fat free sugar free chocolate pudding mix
- 3 cups skim milk
- 45 Oreo cookies without the filling
- 8 candy pumpkins
- 16 gummy worms
- 8 plastic cups (I got mine at the Dollar store)
- Optional garnishes: Milano cookies, chocolate icing, Halloween peeps
This can be a hectic time of the year, so a no bake dessert like these dirt and worm cups that use only a few ingredients is a hit with busy moms.
Prepare the ingredients for the dirt cup for Halloween
These Halloween pudding cups are an easy dessert to make for a Halloween party or cozy night at home.
Make the pudding
- Start by making your pudding mix.
- I used a fat-free sugar-free chocolate pudding mix and skim milk to make my dirt cups.
- I whisked it for about five minutes until it was thick and set it aside.
Remove the icing from your Oreos
- The cookies will be making the dirt layer. To ensure this layer is dry and not moist. you’ll want to remove the icing from the oreos.
- Take a sharp knife and gently remove the icing. If the kids are helping you make this dessert, make sure you are the one who does this step!
Make the Oreo dirt layer
- Place the Oreo wafers in a food processor and pulse them for a few minutes until you get a crumb like appearance that looks like dirt.
Assembling the pumpkin patch pudding cups
These Halloween dessert cups have three layers to them.
Layer the base of the pudding cups
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- Place a layer of the crumbs into the bottom of a small plastic cup.
- Add some chocolate pudding on top of the crumbs.
- Then add a top layer of crumbs to complete the base of the pudding cups.
Garnish the Halloween dessert cups
- Add a few candy pumpkins and some gummy worms to the top of the dirt cup.
- You can hang the gummy worms over the side so it looks like they’re crawling out of the cups. What a fun spooky look!
That’s all there is to these Halloween dirt cups. They have a whimsical look, a creamy center and a crumb top and bottom for great texture when eating them.
These cups are customizable as to the amount of pudding vs dirt. If you don’t want as much “dirt” just add more pudding. Not a fan of candy corn? Just add more gummy worms.
The kids will love knowing they can make their pudding cups any way they like!
More Halloween dirt cup garnishes
There are lots of other ways to decorate these Halloween dirt cups.
Halloween dirt cup tombstones
- Take some sandwich cookies and pipe chocolate frosting to spell the letters RIP.
- Add a faux coffin and some fall leaves and you have the perfect graveyard scene for your dessert table for Halloween.
Dirt cups with Halloween peeps
- You can get a package of peeps that has marshmallow Frankenstein characters, peep ghosts, or black cat figures.
- Put one of these Halloween peeps in the dirt cups along with the worms.
The sky is the limit for a spooky look.
Halloween dirt cup graveyard
- You could even make a fun graveyard picket fence using craft sticks and place your dirt cups inside for a neat table centerpiece. Your Halloween party guests would love this!
For more holiday dirt cup recipes, be sure to check out these Thanksgiving teepee dirt cups and these Christmas tree dirt cups.
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Halloween Dirt Cups - Pumpkin Patch Pudding Dessert
These fun Halloween dirt cups will delight your kids in a spooky kind of way. They are super easy to make and would be fun to have on a Halloween party table.
Ingredients
- 1.5 ounces of fat free sugar free chocolate pudding mix
- 3 cups skim milk
- 45 Oreo cookies without the filling
- 8 candy pumpkins
- 16 gummy worms
- Optional garnishes: Milano cookies, chocolate icing, ghost peeps
Instructions
- Place the pudding mix and milk in a bowl and whisk until it is thick. Set aside.
- Remove the frosting from the center of the Oreo cookies with a knife.
- Place the cookie pieces in food processor and pulse until they are crumbly.
- Place a thin layer of crushed cookie crumbs into the bottom of each plastic cup.
- Place a couple of spoonfuls of the chocolate pudding into each cup, so that the cups are about ⅔ full. Smooth the top of the pudding with a spoon.
- Add another thin layer of cookie crumbs on top of the pudding.
- Position 2 of candy pumpkins and a gummy worm on the top of the pudding cups.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Additional garnishes for these Halloween dirt cups:
- Make tombstone garnishes by piping RIP in chocolate icing on Milano cookies.
- Add marshmallow ghost peeps for a spooky garnish.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
1 cupAmount Per Serving: Calories: 478Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 7mgSodium: 337mgCarbohydrates: 81gFiber: 2gSugar: 53gProtein: 7g
Nutritional information is approximate due to natural variation in ingredients and the cook-at-home nature of our meals.
