Dirt Dessert

I have a garden space dilemma. While I figure out how to show the problem to you, you can enjoy my dirt dessert recipe. Here is the dirt dessert that my boys and I made for my homeschool co-op class.

When I served this dirt dessert, I wore brand-new gardening gloves, and I used a brand-new trowel to serve it up. I had a couple of the kids going: "Are you really going to make us eat dirt?"

Here's the recipe:

8 oz softened cream cheese

½ cup butter

1 cup powdered sugar

Mix and set aside

2 x 3-1/2 oz packages of vanilla instant pudding (I used chocolate)

3-1/2 cups milk

Mix together and then add the first mixture.

Stir in 13 oz. Cool Whip (what they sell now is a little different quantity)

Crush 20 oz pkg of Oreo cookies. (I used the ones with chocolate cream filling, which they didn’t have back when I got this recipe.) Also, I crushed some of the cookie parts separate from the filling so that I was sure that the top layer looked like dirt.

Alternately layer cookies and pudding mixture in 8” flower pot, making sure to end up with cookie mixture on top. Garnish with gummi worms (which I put into the pudding mixture) and silk flowers—it really was a fake flower! Serve with a garden spade and wearing garden gloves.