Description
Rich chocolate layers of Easter Dirt Cake reveal childhood memories with playful pudding crumbles and cookie crunch. Springtime dessert dreams come alive as chocolate bunnies peek through delightful creamy textures you’ll savor with pure joy.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 36 Oreo cookies, crushed
- 2 packages (3.9 ounces / 110 grams each) instant chocolate pudding mix
- 4 cups (946 milliliters) cold milk
- 8 ounces (226 grams) cream cheese, softened
Binding and Sweetening Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup (57 grams) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup (120 grams) powdered sugar
- 12 ounces (340 grams) whipped topping, thawed
Decorative Ingredients:
- Candy-coated chocolate eggs
- Gummy worms
Instructions
- Pulverize chocolate sandwich cookies into fine, uniform crumbs using a food processor or rolling pin, ensuring a consistent texture for the foundation layer.
- Whisk chocolate pudding mix with milk in a spacious mixing vessel, stirring vigorously until the mixture transforms into a smooth, creamy consistency. Allow the pudding to rest and thicken naturally.
- Using an electric mixer, cream together softened cream cheese, butter, and powdered sugar until the mixture achieves a silky, luxurious texture with no visible lumps.
- Delicately fold whipped topping into the cream cheese blend, maintaining the airy volume while creating a light, velvety mixture.
- Construct the dessert in a transparent serving dish by establishing an initial layer of cookie crumbs as the base, followed by a generous spread of cream cheese mixture.
- Pour the thickened chocolate pudding over the cream cheese layer, creating an even, smooth surface.
- Repeat the layering process, alternating between cookie crumbs, cream cheese mixture, and pudding, ensuring each stratum is distributed evenly.
- Complete the dessert with a final crown of cookie crumbs, providing a textural contrast to the creamy layers beneath.
- Refrigerate the assembled dessert for a minimum of one hour, allowing the components to meld and set firmly.
- Prior to serving, embellish the top with whimsical candy eggs and squiggly gummy worms, transforming the cake into a festive Easter-themed treat.
Notes
- Crush Oreos finely for a smoother, more delicate texture that blends perfectly with the creamy layers.
- Use instant pudding mix for quicker preparation and consistent thickness in the dessert.
- Softening cream cheese at room temperature ensures a silky, lump-free mixture without overmixing.
- Layer ingredients carefully to create visually appealing and evenly distributed flavors throughout the dessert.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: None
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 21 g
- Sodium: 230 mg
- Fat: 18 g
- Saturated Fat: 10 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 38 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 25 mg