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These Dinosaur Dirt Pudding Cups are not only a super-easy dessert recipe that kids can make themselves, but they’re a great snack and activity for birthday parties and playdates.
Dirt Pudding Cup Variations
There are a few ways you can change this up, depending on what appeals to you and what you have in the house:
- Instead of chocolate candy rocks, use jelly beans
- Use gummy dinosaurs and/or words instead of (or in addition to) the candy melts
- Use plastic dinosaur toys instead of edible dinosaurs (just wash them really well first!)
- Fold an entire container of Cool Whip into the pudding mixture before you put it in the refrigerator to set. This not only gives you a creamier pudding, but it also gives you more pudding.
- Use chocolate ice cream instead of pudding.
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Dino Pudding Cups Ingredients
- 2 ¾ cups milk
- Jello instant chocolate pudding box mix (5.9 oz)
- Dinosaur chocolate candy mold
- Candy melts in blue, red, orange and yellow
- Clear plastic punch cups
- 6-7 Double Stuff Oreos
- Edible chocolate candy rocks
Pudding Cup Recipe
- Pour the milk and instant pudding mix into a large mixing bowl.
- Mix well with a whisk (or hand mixer) …
… until all lumps are removed.
- Place pudding mixture in the refrigerator to set.
- While the pudding is setting, heat the yellow candy melts in the microwave for 30 seconds on 50% power.
- Remove and stir very well.
If the candy melts have not fully melted, return to the microwave for an additional 10 seconds, and again stir well.
- Use a spoon or silicone spatula to scoop the melted candy melts into a sandwich size baggie.
- Cut a very small tip off one bottom corner of the baggie ….
… and pipe the candy melts into the dinosaur chocolate mold.
- Repeat the melting and piping process with the blue, red, and orange candy melts until the dinosaur chocolate mold is full.
- Place the mold in the refrigerator to set.
- Add the Oreos to a food processor ….
and crush them into fine crumbs.
- Go get the pudding and dinosaur mold out of the refrigerator.
- Fill the clear plastic cups approximately ¾ full with the pudding.
- Top each pudding cup with oreo crumbs.
- Place one candy melt dinosaur on top of the Oreo crumbs.
- Sprinkle the edible chocolate candy rocks around the dinosaur.
- Either serve the cups immediately or keep them chilled until it’s time to serve.
Dinosaur Dirt Pudding Cups
Yield: 5 cups
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 ¾ cups milk
- Box of Jello instant chocolate pudding mix (5.9 oz)
- Blue, red, orange, and yellow candy melts
- 6-7 Double Stuff Oreos
- Edible chocolate candy rocks(can substitute with jelly beans)
- Dinosaur chocolate candy mold
- Clear plastic punch cups
Instructions
- Pour the milk and pudding mix into a large mixing bowl.
- Mix well with a whisk or hand mixer until all lumps are removed.
- Place bowl in the refrigerator to set.
- While the pudding is setting, heat the yellow candy melts in the microwave for 30 seconds on 50% power.
- Remove candy melts from microwave and stir very well. (If they're still not fully melted, return them to the microwave for an additional 10 seconds, and stir again.)
- Use a spoon or silicone spatula to scoop the melted candy melts into a sandwich size baggie.
- Cut a very small tip off one bottom corner of the baggie and pipe the candy melts into the dinosaur chocolate mold.
- Do the same thing with the other candy melts until the mold is full.
- Place the mold in the refrigerator to set.
- Add the Oreos to a food processor and crush into fine crumbs. (Alternatively, you can put them in a ziploc baggie and crush them with a rolling pin or mallet.)
- Remove the pudding and dinosaur mold from the refrigerator.
- Fill the clear plastic cups approximately ¾ full with the pudding, and then top it with Oreo crumbs.
- Place one candy melt dinosaur on top of the Oreo crumbs and sprinkle candy rocks (or jelly beans) around it.
- Serve immediately or keep chilled until ready to serve.
Notes
For extra creamy pudding, you can fold in a container of Cool Whip before you put it in the fridge. (This will also allow you to make more servings.)
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