Dirt Cake

Title: Dirt Cake

Categories: Cakes

Yield: 10 servings

1 ea Flower pot

8 oz Cream cheese, softened

1 ea Garden trowel

1 c Confectioner's sugar

3 ea Gummy worms (or plastic)

1 ts Vanilla

1 ea Plastic flowers, bunch

2 pk Inst choc-fudge

pudding (4oz)

16 oz Oreo cookies

3 c Milk

1/2 c Butter, softened

12 oz Whipped topping,

1 tub

thawed This is a joke, a bit of whimsy to lighten up your next party. The cake is

really a quick mix dessert made with Oreo cookies and soft squishy stuff.

The trick is to capture everyone's attention with an announcement of some

sort, and as you are speaking, trowel out some of the dirt from the flower

pot around the flowers and eat it. May be followed by a worm dug out of

the "dirt". You may substitute vanilla pudding for the chocolate if you

want, and use up to 20 oz of Oreos. Please use a clean new plastic flower

pot or take the precaution of lining a clay pot with foil and wrap the

stems of live flowers if you use them in order to prevent any toxins from

entering the dessert.

Crush the cookies until they resemble potting soil. Set aside. Cream the butter or margarine, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until

smooth and fluffy. Set aside. Combine the pudding mix and milk until

well blended. Then fold in the whipped topping. Gently fold the cream

cheese and pudding mixtures together.

To put the "cake" together, layer one-third of the cookie crumbs

1/2 of the pudding mixture,

1/3 of the crumbs, the rest of the

pudding mixture and topping with the balance of the crumbs. Refrigerate

10-12 hours before serving. Remove from refrigerator, decorate with

10 to 12. --