Halloween Dirt Cake Recipe with Gummy Worms

What is more fun than Halloween dirt cake with gummy worms! Want an easy Halloween dessert as the perfect addition to your Halloween party? This cake is sure to please with yummy flavors and such a fun presentation. Plus, it is an easy no bake dessert and simple to make.

Prep Time15

Total Time15

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: holiday dessert, no-bake recipe, summer dessert

Servings: Servings

Calories: 621kcal

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Kitchen Essentials

Aluminum Cake Pan

Glass Baking Dish

food storage jars

Sponge Holder

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Ingredients

32 Ounces Chocolate Sandwich Cookies with Cream Filling
3 ½ Cups Milk
6.8 Ounces Instant Vanilla Pudding Mix 2 (3.4 ounce) packages
12 Ounces Whipped Topping 1 container thawed
8 Ounces Cream Cheese 1 package softened
½ Cup Butter softened
½ Cup Powdered Sugar

Instructions

Finely crush chocolate cookies in a food processor; set crumbs aside.
Combine instant vanilla pudding and milk in a large bowl. Whisk until pudding is soft set. Fold in whipped topping and set aside.
In a separate bowl, combine cream cheese, butter, and confectioner's sugar. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture. Stir to combine.
In your serving container, add half of the cookie crumbs. Layer on the pudding mixture. Add the top layer of cookie crumbs.
Chill dirt cake in the refrigerator until ready to serve, garnish as desired.

Notes

Fun ways to change up Halloween dirt cake

You can make a chocolate dirt cake by simply changing the vanilla pudding out for instant chocolate pudding instead. This makes it a very chocolatey and rich dirt cake.

You can also switch out the gummy worms for other gummy treats or use other candies for topping your dirt cake.

Candy bars are also a good option to crush or crumble and add to the top of your cake. Nutter Butter cookies and graham crackers are other big hits as a topping.

For Halloween, you could easily make this into a graveyard dirt cake with tombstone cookies and body part candies!

Another fun twist is candy pumpkins or others like candy corn, Twizzlers, or Sour Patch Kids. Plus, these also add a fun pop of color to your dessert.

Summertime No Bake Dessert Dirt Cake

More often when served throughout the year, this dirt cake is served in a clean flowerpot. Garnish the flowerpot cake with gummy worms; display it with a new garden trowel and artificial flowers for the full effect.

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