Yesterday I remembered that I had been told by one of the little girls that I was to make dirt pudding cups for a birthday treat. And they must have worms in them! Since I did not have gummy worms it meant going to the store last evening for the necessary supplies. Thankfully we do not have far to a store.

I got home and assembled all my ingredients. You need one pack or Oreos, 2 cups milk, 1 (3.9 oz) chocolate instant pudding, aprox. 30 gummy worms, and one cool whip.

It only takes 1 pack of pudding ( although I have 2 pictured). Mix the milk and pudding together and leave set for 5 minutes.

 

While you leave the pudding sit you can chop up the Oreo cookies. You can put them in a zip lock bag and use a rolling pin to smash them or you can do it the easy way like I did. I used my Pampered Chef chopper ( a tool that I would find hard to live without) and put 3 cookies in at a time and they were done in short order.

Now go back to the pudding and add the can of cool whip to it.

When that is mixed well you can add not quite half of the cookie crumbs to the pudding. If the cookie crumbs are not all the same size that is ok as it makes it look more like dirt.

 

You then can put it in a 9×13 cake pan or put it in 9 oz. cups like I did.

 

Stick the worms in and then use the remaining crumbs to put on top. Then put the worms inside the cups and they are all complete. And make sure you put the worms in correctly! I was just tucking them in when my daughter scolded me that I was putting them in upside down. Did you know that they have a face on one end? Well, I had forgotten.

 

I then put lids on them as they were getting transported to school for a birthday treat. This makes about 12 cups.

And here is the birthday girl who helped me make the cups for her classmates. Happy Birthday, Alana.

What are your favorite treats for a birthday?