Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (2024)

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October 29, 2015 By Allie

Are you looking for a spooky dessert for Halloween? Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups will be the perfect addition to your party table or as a fun treat for the kids.

While I was shopping, Ibrowsed through the Halloween section and sawsome neat edible decorations. I found little tombstones with bones that were meant to decorate cupcakes or cakes. As soon as I saw them, I knew they would go great on top of dirt cake. If you haven’t heard of dirt cake, it is a pudding mixture layered with crushed cookies served in a bowl or in cups. To go along with the graveyard theme, I used chocolate pudding and crushed chocolate cream-filled cookies to represent dirt. TheGraveyard Dirt Cake Cups are a quick, no bake dessert that is perfect for aHalloween party or as a fun treat for the kids.

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Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups

Author:Sugar, Spice and Family Life

Recipe type:Dessert

Prep time: 15 mins

Total time: 15 mins

Serves:8

Ingredients

2 (3.9 oz) packages of instant chocolate pudding mix
3½ cups milk
½ cup butter, softened
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
8 oz. container of frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 lb. 3 oz. family sized box of chocolate cream-filled cookies
Edible tombstones and bones

Instructions

In a bowl, whisk together the pudding mix and milk for 5 minutes until soft set. Stir in the Cool Whip.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and cream cheese. Mix in the pudding mixture.
Chop cookies finely in a blender or food processor until they resemble dirt.
In serving cups, layer cookie crumbs and pudding mixture.
Store in refrigerator. Decorate with tombstones and bones when ready to serve.

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Miz Helen says
November 4, 2015 at 10:10 am
What an adorable treat! Thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and have a great day!
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
MyHusbandHasTooManyHobbies says
November 4, 2015 at 9:32 pm
These are so cute! Thank you for sharing with us at Brag About It! Pinning!
I sure missed seeing your links each week! Hope you have a great week!
~Laurie
Salena Y says
October 21, 2016 at 4:03 pm
I plan on making these with my daughter and neice. Was just wondering about what size your cups are?
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- Allie says
  October 22, 2016 at 1:49 pm
  I’m not sure the exact size I used but I recently bought plastic tumblers at Dollar General. They were located beside the plastic serving trays on the other side of the party supply aisle.
Genie says
October 28, 2016 at 10:33 am
Cute!
Melissa says
October 16, 2018 at 10:46 am
Hi, I’m going to be making the grave yard dessert however I am not doing it in seperate cups but 1 big bowl and I need help with ingredients what exact you would use.. I didn’t know how to reach you.. Please help
- Allie says
  October 22, 2018 at 2:22 pm
  You can definitely make it in a big bowl instead of little cups. Just use the same process of layering but use the big bowl.
Suzanne says
October 5, 2019 at 1:32 pm
These are so cute! Perfect for Halloween!
- daraflower says
  October 22, 2019 at 12:50 pm
  So cute! How far ahead of time can these be made?
  - daraflower says
    October 22, 2019 at 12:51 pm
    Just saw my question after I posted – please disregard. Thanks!!
Shayna says
October 21, 2019 at 12:40 am
Hi! I’m not sure if you’re still checking these comments but these are super cute. Do you think I could make these ahead of time? If so how far ahead of time to make sure they don’t get too soggy? I have a party on Saturday and I’m trying to prep a little each day this week 🙂 thanks for sharing!
- Allie says
  October 21, 2019 at 12:02 pm
  You can make them the night before the party 🙂
Andrea says
October 12, 2020 at 1:07 pm
What size cups did you use and where did you buy them
- Allie says
  October 12, 2020 at 1:52 pm
  I bought the cups at Dollar General near the party supplies. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the size measurement.
Espy says
October 26, 2020 at 12:54 am
How many cups come out of this recipe?
- Allie says
  November 22, 2020 at 5:03 pm
  It can fill 8 plastic serving cups.

Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (2024)

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Where does dirt cake come from? ›

Where Did Dirt Cakes Originate? Dirt cakes are believed to be a spin on the Mississippi mud pie, a popular chocolate dessert from the 1960s. Dirt cakes took the concept of layering chocolate cookie crumble and pudding, like a trifle. It was first seen in the 1980s in the American Midwest, specifically made for kids.

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What is dirt cake made of? ›

Dirt Cake Ingredients

This fun dirt cake recipe is easy to make with these convenient ingredients: Oreos, cream cheese, butter, confectioners' sugar, milk, frozen whipped topping, and instant vanilla pudding mix.

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Why is it called dirt cake? ›

Dirt cake, also called dirt and worms, is an American cake made from cookies and vanilla pudding in combination with other ingredients to create a dessert that has a resemblance to soil or earth.

What is the meaning of dirt cake? ›

Noun. dirt cake (countable and uncountable, plural dirt cakes) A kind of American dessert made from broken cookies and pudding, sometimes with gummy worms added, and resembling dirt.

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Where do fairy cakes come from? ›

Fairy cakes, also known as British butterfly cakes originate from Great Britain! Surprisingly enough, these delightful treats are a well-known party snack in Britain, but unheard of in the rest of the world. And of course, the big misunderstanding is that foreign countries think fairy cakes look like fairies.

Where did the Jamaican fruit cake come from? ›

The Evolution of Jamaican Black Cake

Having experienced the holiday tradition of fruitcakes at the hands of their captors, enslaved Africans took the concept of fruitcake and began adapting the recipe.

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What is the origin of Mississippi mud cake? ›

Some think Mississippi mud pie is a 1970s reincarnation of Mississippi mud cake, which appeared in the World War II era. Thrifty women on the homefront might have developed the mud cake recipe in their search for ways to make desserts with cheap ingredients already available in their scanty wartime pantries.

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