18 | February | 2013 | 4 little Fergusons

Dirt & Worms Dessert

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Ingredients

1 package {15 Oz} Oreo Cookies

16 ounces, weight Cool Whip , Thawed

2 boxes (3.4 Oz. Each) Vanilla Instant Pudding

1 cup Powdered Sugar

3 cups Milk

1 teaspoon Vanilla

8 ounces, weight Cream Cheese, Softened

Gummy Worms

Preparation Instructions

Mix cool whip, softened cream cheese and powdered sugar. In a separate bowl, mix together milk and pudding mix, whipping until thickened. Stir them together and spread in the bottom of a 9×13 pan.
Crush Oreos in a food processor until fine crumbs remain, cover pudding completely. Tuck worms all over the surface.
Chill for a couple of hours before serving.
For fun, I’ve seen a clean garden trowel as the serving utensil and this served in clean, lined terra cotta pots. Up to you how far you take this “theme.”

Dig in!

I told you on Friday, that sweet Tylan has been waiting 6 WHOLE MONTHS, for his turn at a birthday! All 3 of his siblings were born in the summer, AND he had to endure the girls’ two half birthday celebrations at school yet, too.

FINALLY, his turn came!

The rule at our house for the Birthday kiddo, is you don’t have to do ANY of your normal chores, the other kids have to do them. They get to pick the food we eat, and the cake they want for dessert that night. They get 3 gifts, just like at Christmas, that are opened before dinner. Oh my, was he ever on cloud 9!

He received a wooden marble works set, a stomp rocket and a bike from us. {Someone gave us this bike for free. What a blessing!}

From other family members he received $6, Target gift card and new roller blades, which he insisted on wearing to dinner.

Speaking of dinner:

Tylan LOVES Mac & Cheese.

LOVES IT!

Not Mom’s homemade, nope, the boxed stuff. Bleh.

Ok, buddy, good thing its your birthday, cause this is a special treat!

I told him we needed to make his dinner selection a bit more filling, since Great Grandpa Beckler got to come home from the nursing home, and others would be joining us.

So we turned 2 boxes into Mac & Cheese Lasagna, click picture below for recipe. With served this with regular Mac & Cheese on the side. Now that is a high quality meal right there, folks. OH, and a big tossed salad so we had SOMETHING healthy!!!!!! 🙂

He got to pick 2 desserts, one for his school party, and one for home.

For school he picked Dirt & Worm Cake, which I will share the recipe for in Post 2 for today. I loved hearing him whisper to everyone, “Don’t worry, it’s not REAL dirt.”

For home, he picked a childhood favorite of mine. Ice Cream Cake!!!

It’s very simple actually:

Bake an Angel Food Cake, cool then divide in 3rds if its round, 4ths if you do 2 loaf pans like I did. {discarding or consuming the extra layer}

Have your birthday boy or girl select TWO kinds of ice cream, allow them to soften just a bit for easier moldablity. {ice cream combo ideas listed on recipe}

Fill as pictured above, trying to keep cake level. I used over half of both ice creams. Then cover the whole thing in Extra Creamy Cool Whip. Freeze until serving.