Dirt Cake

Okay, it looks like it's time for more desserts! This one, besides being 'to die for', is lots of fun. If you need an attractive dessert, make it up in a large, fancy glass bowl. Or use a flower pot and top with artificial flowers and gummy worms. For a men's Wild Game Banquet, I made it in a silver bucket and topped it with the gummy worms and a 'gone fishing' sign.
Once, when I was working in a veterinarian's office, we had a doctor who was leaving. She was one of those women who hated men, but loved cats--she had seventeen of them. Anyhow, we made one of these cakes, only with vanilla cookies, and rolled tootsie rolls in the cookie crumbs and made her a litterbox cake. I thought it was rather disgusting, but she loved it!

Ingredients:
.5 cup butter, softened
8 oz cream cheese (Philly brand)
.5 to 1 cup powdered sugar
(2) small packages instant vanilla pudding
3 cups milk
12 oz Cool Whip
20 oz Oreos, crushed very fine (I use the food processor)

In medium bowl mix butter, cream cheese and sugar with a mixer. In a second bowl mix the milk and pudding. Add the whipped topping to the pudding mixture; combine the two mixtures. In a glass bowl or flower pot, layer crumbs and filling, ending with crumbs on top. Garnish with silk flowers and gummy worms, if you like.

Barb