Manageability – Easy as (Dirt) Pie
Springtime means rebirth, regrowth, blooming and shit. Flowers, gardening, potting soil and grass stains. Or, if you live in Chicago like me, 30 degrees and the occasional snow shower. So what, I ask you, could possibly be a more springtime-themed dessert, than a pie made entirely out of dirt?
Baked Bree’s Dirt Cake in Flower Pots are soooo rich and creamy and delicious, with a light crunch from the Oreo cookies that perfectly balances the texture. Bree wants you to use real, small-sized terracotta pots, but I didn’t. So I used cupcake silicon cups. Still tasty and cute, but since i had only had six silicon pots, I had a lot left over that I put into a trifle bowl. It’s still in my fridge, slowly getting eaten more than a week later.
Now let’s get out there and grow some tomaters while wearing a coat.
Ingredients
2 packages Oreos crushed (leave 10 or however many pots you are making whole to plug the bottom of your pot); And let’s face it, you’re going to eat some of these Oreos too.
2 packages chocolate pudding
3 cups heavy cream
2 cups powdered sugar
2 sticks cream cheese softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
- Make the chocolate pudding according to the package directions.
- Whip the cream. Whip it real good. Set aside.
- Cream the cream cheese with the sugar and vanilla.
- Combine the pudding into the cream cheese mixture. Then fold the whipped cream into the pudding mixture.
- Get your pots ready. Put a whole Oreo on top of the hole in the bottom of the flower pot so that the pudding does not leak out.
- Layer some crushed Oreos on the top of the whole Oreo. Add the pudding mixture. Drop in some gross gummy candies, and an old coin and some lost jewelry.
- Cover the top with more crushed Oreos.
- Add some cleaned fake flowers.