Dirt Cups With Chocolate Pudding: Must-Try Treat!
If you’ve yet to make worms in dirt chocolate pudding, it’s super easy. And here, we’re making them extra chocolaty, thanks to a from-scratch pudding made with real chocolate milk.
How to Make Chocolate Pudding Dirt Cups
To assemble, you simply crumble chopped chocolate sandwich cookies (the dirt!) on top of the pudding and place a few gummy worms into the crumbs. Delightfully gross!
What’s the Best Chocolate to Use?
When making chocolate pudding from scratch, pick your favorite chocolate to eat! If you like your chocolate sweeter, pick a milk chocolate or semisweet chocolate. If you prefer a less sweet dessert, go with a bittersweet chocolate or one with a higher percentage of cacao.
Prep for Chilling
When making pudding from scratch, you will end up with “pudding skin" on top of each cup unless you place a piece of parchment or wax paper on the warm pudding before chilling it. Some folks like the pudding skin and find the paper too fussy, while others live for supersmooth pudding. You decide which route suits you best!
Make Ahead Strategies
When making pudding from scratch, you need to let it cool in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours before serving, but letting it chill overnight is really best. For this recipe, you can make the pudding up to five days ahead of time. You can even crumble the cookies in a resealable bag and leave the crumbs in the bag until you’re ready to make the desserts. Just assemble the worms in “dirt” right before serving them!
M&M’sColored sprinklesChocolate sprinkles (use them in place of the crushed Oreos if you want)Vanilla wafersLayers of whipped cream between pudding layersAnimal crackersGummy BearsSwedish Fish
How to Make Your Own Chocolate Milk
No chocolate milk in the house? No problem. You can make your own for this recipe by whisking 2 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder and 2 tablespoons of sugar with 2 cups of whole milk. If the sugar doesn’t dissolve completely, don’t worry. Once you add the chocolate milk to the pan and heat it, the sugar will dissolve.
More Kid-Friendly Chocolate Recipes!
Chocolate Ice Cream Chocolate Fondue Double Chocolate Chip Cookies Chocolate-Covered Pretzels Double Chocolate Cupcakes
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 2 tablespoons cornstarch 2 cups chocolate milk 1 pinch salt 1 large egg 4 ounces chopped chocolate (about 3/4 cup)
To assemble:
10 ounces chocolate vanilla sandwich cookies, about 20 cookies 12 gummy worms
Chill for 3 hours or overnight in the refrigerator.
