Aug 24 2008
Great cake recipe–kids will love it, adults will rave about the cleverness!
I went to a block party today at a cousins house. Each guest was asked to bring a dish, drinks, or deserts to help keep preparation to a minimum. It was such a great idea to ask everyone to bring something so that the host and hostess didn’t have to bar-b-que non-stop. After dinner everyone put out their desserts. I had been walking around with one of the kids when I saw my husband gesture to me about dessert being served. As I walked toward the table, my husband said: “Your kid is eating dirt.” I said: “What?” I looked on the table and saw a green plastic flower pot with a plastic garden shovel and what appeared to be dirt plus a rather large daisy drooping over the side (which apparently was standing straight up prior to the digging in and devouring. I also saw a bunch of kids eating it like crazy. I said: “What is that?” Someone had made a cake inside this ordinary garden bucket. I imagine that it was ADORABLE before they dug into it. As I checked out the plates–the cake did indeed look like dirt and it had worms inside: GUMMY WORMS! SO CUTE! So I sought out its’ creator and got the info on how to make it.
Here is what you will need (The amount will depending on how large of a container you are using. She doesn’t have set cup measures:
One or more packages of OREOs (She used the low fat variety)
One or more packages Jello Vanilla Pudding
One container Sour Cream
One or two containers of COOL WHIP topping
Two or three (depending on how crazy you want to go) packages of Gummy Worms
One plastic planting container
One Plastic garden shovel or Trowel
A few artificial flowers to poke from the top of the “soil”
Here’s how you make it:
Place the OREO cookies (SANDWHICH AND CREME INSIDE–not the 100 calorie crisps which do not have the creme) in a blender and crush them until they are of a powder-like consistency.
In a separate bowl prepare your pudding and allow it to set.
Once the pudding sets, add your sour cream and COOL WHIP mix together for a nice smooth consistency. You will want to keep testing the cream to select your desired taste–add more or less COOL WHIP or Sour Cream till you achieve the taste you want.
Once you achieve your perfect mixture you are ready to assemble the cake
In a NEW, CLEAN, plastic garden flower pot, add a two inch layer of crushed cookie crumbs.
Follow up with an inch layer of the creme mixture.
Add a few Gummy worms throughout the creme layer –not too many!
Add a second layer of cookie crumbs and then alternate with the creme mixture and the gummy worms. Start layering again with the cookie crumbs then creme and GUMMY WORMS –ETC…until you reach a good level in the flower pot.
End the layer with the COOKIE CRUMBS so the top of your cake will look like SOIL.
Place a few artificial flowers in the soil and assemble a nice little flower pot for yourself. Add a Gummy Worm too if you’d like for good measure.
Use your NEW garden shovel or garden trowel to serve.
Many thanks to the great chef at the ELSIE LANE block party for passing on her recipe.
