… but the kids will thank you for it!

We forget about dirt pudding. But then suddenly every couple of years we remember again and the whole family needs it. This was Thanksgiving dessert, and then I made it over the weekend for a Cross Country party, and I’ll make it next week for a soccer party — because I know the kids will love it, and sometimes I just don’t want to be the mom who bring the apple slices and grapes.

Dirt Pudding Pie Recipe

Ingredients

• 32 chocolate sandwich cream filled cookies (real or fake Oreos)
• 2 TB butter
• 2 pkgs JELL-O Chocolate Instant Pudding (the small ones.)
• 2 cups cold milk
• small tub thawed COOL WHIP – lite is OK

Directions

1. Crush 24 of the cookies. Melt the butter and mix with the crushed cookies to make crust. Press into bottom of 9 or 10 inch pie pan or springform pan.
2. BEAT pudding mixes and milk with whisk 2 min.; spoon half into crust.
3. STIR COOL WHIP into remaining pudding; crush remaining cookies and stir into this mixture. Spoon over pudding layer in crust.
4. Refrigerate until ready to serve (At least 20 mins)

For an added touch, you can put a few gummy worms coming out of the “dirt”.

Brian wants to try this with peanut butter Oreos, but we haven’t yet. If you do, please let us know how it tastes!