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

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.

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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

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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

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

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  1. Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (3)Miz Helen says

    What an adorable treat! Thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and have a great day!
    Come Back Soon!
    Miz Helen

  2. Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (4)MyHusbandHasTooManyHobbies says

    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

    • Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (6)Allie says

      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.

  3. Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (7)Genie says

    Cute!

  4. Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (8)Melissa says

    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

    • Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (9)Allie says

      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.

  5. Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (10)Suzanne says

    These are so cute! Perfect for Halloween!

    • Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (11)daraflower says

      So cute! How far ahead of time can these be made?

      • Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (12)daraflower says

        Just saw my question after I posted – please disregard. Thanks!!

  6. Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (13)Shayna says

    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!

    • Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (14)Allie says

      You can make them the night before the party 🙂

  7. Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (15)Andrea says

    What size cups did you use and where did you buy them

    • Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (16)Allie says

      I bought the cups at Dollar General near the party supplies. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the size measurement.

  8. Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (17)Espy says

    How many cups come out of this recipe?

    • Graveyard Dirt Cake Cups Recipe - Sugar, Spice and Family Life (18)Allie says

      It can fill 8 plastic serving cups.

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

FAQs

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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