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my boyfriend and i made this for his dad for Father's Day. since his dad loves anything with Oreos and his family are just a bunch of pranksters, we decided this was perfect! we actually celebrated today with an awesome cook out and after dinner, he kept on looking around for the dessert. we had set it in the middle of the table, and then my boyfriend's brother took a spoonful of "dirt" and ate it. in total disbelief, his dad screamed out, "what the hell are you doing?!" and we all cracked up at that point. he caught on pretty quickly and was like, "did you make that? that's my dessert?!". it was a huge hit...everyone loved it and it was so easy to make. i hope you guys get to try it too!here's the recipe:2 18oz packages of Oreos
1 8oz block of cream cheese, softened
4 Tbs unsalted butter, softened
2 3.4oz packages of Jello instant vanilla pudding
1 8oz tub of Cool Whip, thawed
3 1/2 cups of cold milkcrush cookies in a food processor or in a Ziploc bag with a rolling pin and set aside. in a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and butter with an electric hand mixer until well blended and set aside. in another bowl, blend pudding mix and milk with electric hand mixer until slightly thickened. add the pudding to the cream cheese mixture and blend until smooth. add in thawed Cool Whip and blend again until it is all incorporated.
in a clean plastic flower pot (medium sized and preferably new), start alternating layers of the pudding mixture and Oreo crumbs. make sure the top layer is the Oreo crumbs. cover with plastic wrap and chill for several hours or overnight. before serving, wrap some silk flower stems in plastic wrap or foil, stick into the center of the pot and enjoy! gummy worms are also optional. ^_~ for added effect, serve it with a new and clean gardening shovel. better yet, use real flowers instead of silk to really throw everyone off.feel free to use chocolate pudding and/or chocolate Cool Whip for a more "chocolaty" cake. next time, i'm thinking of using chocolate pudding with mint Oreos for a grasshopper style dessert. another variation is to use Nilla wafer cookies instead of Oreos to make "sand" and instead of using a flower pot, use a sand pail and serve with a sand shovel. you can even decorate with sea shell candy!

here's our cake! i actually could not find an appropriate sized flower pot, and while shopping at Michael's for silk flowers, i found some sand pails on sale that were the perfect size and shape. i got the orange one since it reminded me of a terra cotta pot and luckily, the handle was detachable. we had to wrap it in foil since you could see the layers of the cake through the pail...thinking back, i should have used wrapping paper to make it prettier.

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it''s amazing how crushed Oreos really look like dirt! the cream in the cookies almost resemble the perlite that''s in some topsoil

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Happy Father''s Day!

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If you ever make this for kids add a few gummy worms coming out of the "dirt". It looks hysterical!
 
aw, how sweet; look how happy he looks!!!
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I had one of the kid size cups with the gummi worms so it is like earthworms, yummmm, so much fun! hehe
 
That''s brilliant! I am definitely going to try that some day.
 
Very pretty! And man, you really crush your dirt, mine''s never that fine!

My kids will request this over a cake for their bday almost every time.
 
I am weeping * what the hell are you doing?!?*....Priceless!!
 
Totally Awesome!
 
OK, that is cool....
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Just had to bump this to say that I made a dirt cake for the 4th of July party we attended. I went over-the-top cheesy and used red, white and blue flowers and tied a red white and blue bow around the pot. We walked into the party and the first thing that went through the host''s mind was "ummm, where is dessert?". I handed her the pot and you could see her trying to smile and be polite while her thoughts were "Why the h*ll are they giving me a pot of fake flowers?!?!" The look on her face was hilarious! It caused a lot of laughter and smiles when we served it.
 
Date: 7/6/2009 12:19:00 AM
Author: EricaR
Just had to bump this to say that I made a dirt cake for the 4th of July party we attended. I went over-the-top cheesy and used red, white and blue flowers and tied a red white and blue bow around the pot. We walked into the party and the first thing that went through the host''s mind was ''ummm, where is dessert?''. I handed her the pot and you could see her trying to smile and be polite while her thoughts were ''Why the h*ll are they giving me a pot of fake flowers?!?!'' The look on her face was hilarious! It caused a lot of laughter and smiles when we served it.

hahahaha! this had me cracking up!
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i love the fact that you went "over-top-cheesy"! what a great idea!
 
That is so cool
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