Stacys Dirt Cake Recipes

DIRT CAKE

Steps:

• Crush cookies until they resemble potting soil. Divide half of the crumbs between the flower pots. Set pots and remaining crumbs aside., In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. In another bowl, whisk milk and pudding mix for 2 minutes (mixture will be thick). Fold in whipped topping. Gently fold into cream cheese mixture until blended., Add filling to pots; top with reserved crumbs. Cover and refrigerate until chilled. If desired, wrap silk flower stems in foil; add to flower pots. Decorate with gummy worms and display with gardening tools if desired.

DIRT CAKE I

Steps:

• Chop cookies very fine in food processor. The white cream will disappear.
• Mix butter, cream cheese, and sugar in bowl.
• In a large bowl mix milk, pudding and whipped topping together.
• Combine pudding mixture and cream mixture together.
• Layer in flower pot, starting with cookies then cream mixture. Repeat layers.
• Chill until ready to serve.
• Add artificial flower and trowel. Enjoy!

FANCY DIRT CAKE

Steps:

• Pulse cookies in a food processor until coarse crumbs form (or place in a plastic bag and pound with a rolling pin); set aside.
• Pour milk into a medium saucepan; scrape in vanilla seeds and add pod. Heat over medium until just before boiling.
• Whisk eggs, sugar, cornstarch, and salt in a large bowl. Whisking constantly, pour half of milk mixture into egg mixture. (Putting a wet towel underneath bowl will help stabilize it.) Add egg and milk mixture to remaining milk mixture in saucepan. Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until custard is thick and bubbles just a bit, about 7 minutes, then continue to cook 1 minute more.
• Strain custard through a fine-mesh sieve into a clean bowl; discard vanilla pod. Add 1/4 cup butter and whisk to combine. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing directly on surface of custard, and chill until cold, about 3 hours.
• Using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat cream cheese and remaining 3/4 cup butter in a large bowl until smooth. Add chilled custard and beat until combined.
• Using electric mixer on medium-high speed, whip cream in a medium bowl until medium peaks form. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold whipped cream into custard to combine.
• Layer custard and cookie crumbs alternately in flower pot, inserting gummy worms at random, ending with crumbs. Stick a flower or two into cake to decorate, adding more worms on top of "soil" if desired.
• Do Ahead
• Custard can be made 1 day ahead; keep chilled.

STACY'S DIRT CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Crush the cookies until they resemble potting soil. Set aside.
• Cream butter, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth and fluffy; set aside.
• Combine the pudding mix and milk until well blended, and then fold in the whipped topping. Gently fold the cream cheese and pudding mixtures together.
• To put the cake together, layer flower pot with 1/3 of the cookie crumbs, followed by 1/2 the pudding mixture, 1/3 of the crumbs, the rest of the pudding mixture and topping with the remaining cookie crumbs.
• Refrigerate 10 to 12 hours. About 1/2 hour before serving, remove from refrigerator and decorate with worms/bugs and flowers. Serve by digging out portions with the trowel.

JANE'S DIRT CAKE

Steps:

• If using a flowerpot with a drainage hole, reserve 1 cookie to place over hole to prevent leaking. Place remaining cookies in the bowl of a food processor. Process until mixture resembles dirt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine cream cheese and butter, and stir until creamy. Set aside.
• In another large bowl, whisk together instant-pudding mixes and milk; stir until well blended. Using a rubber spatula, fold pudding mixture into cream-cheese mixture. Fold in whipped cream.
• In a flowerpot or bucket with a 5-quart capacity, alternate layers of cookie "dirt" and pudding mixture, starting and ending with cookie "dirt." Chill at least 4 hours or overnight before serving. Garnish with candy.

DIRT CAKE

Steps:

• Finely crush chocolate cookies in a food processor. (The white cream will disappear.)
• Beat cream cheese, butter, and confectioner's sugar in a medium bowl until smooth.
• Whisk together milk, whipped topping, and pudding in a large bowl.
• Fold butter mixture into pudding mixture until well-combined.
• Alternately layer crushed cookies and pudding mixture in a medium flower pot, starting and ending with cookies.
• Chill in refrigerator until ready to serve.
• Garnish as desired and enjoy!

DIRT CAKE

Steps:

• Bake the cake according to its directions. Let it completely cool. I try baking it the day before to make sure its good and cool.
• For this part take off your rings. In a large bowl crumble the cake until it looks like "dirt". Feel through the pile to make sure you've not left any large clumps of cake.
• Next add your chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, pieces, and minis. by hand mix it all into the cake really well.
• Then add the gummy worms and stir them inches.
• Next gently fold in the cool whip. It's okay to have white spots.
• Last drizzle the chocolate syrup over the top. Use the whole cup as it will soak into the cake.
• If your not serving it immediately you will want to refrigerate it. And if its hot out you'll want to keep it somewhere cool and out of the sun.
• It is really rich so you won't want large scoops.

DIRT CAKE

Steps:

• Crush cookies until they resemble potting soil. Cream the cheese, margarine, sugar, and vanilla together and then set aside. Combine pudding mix and milk, fold in whipped topping. Gently fold cheese and pudding mixtures together.
• Refrigerate mixture. Serve with cookie crumbs.