Graveyard Pudding Cups

Graveyard Pudding Cups are fun for any school or at home Halloween party, or as a spooky dessert after dinner. Chocolate pudding is topped with crushed Oreo "dirt" and decorated with icing pumpkins, flowers, and ghosts & ghouls. A cookie headstone makes the finishing touch. They are as exciting to eat as to make!

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays. From decorating the house to pumpkin picking and decorating, the fun is endless. But best of all, it means making fun food!

These spooky Graveyard Pudding Cups are super cute for kids parties or as a simple dessert after a Mummy Hot Dog dinner on Halloween. And they require no baking! Pudding cups are one of favorite treats to celebrate the holiday, along with Graveyard Brownies and Spider Donuts!

My recipes was inspired by the classic cup of dirt that I loved as a kid. When we go to summer BBQ's, I make sure to bring them and everyone always gets so excited. So why not make a spooky version?

The kids love helping make these, and of course eating them! They love designing a personalized graveyard and I bet your kids will too!

Ingredients and Supplies

For our spooky graveyard pudding cups you need:

• Chocolate pudding: homemade or store bought.
• Oreo cookies: crushed and without the cream.
• Milano cookies: or a similar shaped cookie.
• Black writing icing
• Squeezable icing tubes: in your choice of colors. You'll also need speciality frosting tips of your choosing depending on how you'd like your decorations to look. I recommend black, orange, green, pink or purple, and white icing. This way you can make pumpkins, bushes, flower bouquets, and ghosts.
• Clear plastic cups: 4 to 8 ounces each.

This recipe makes 4 eight-ounce pudding cups or 8 four-ounce pudding cups.

Instructions

STEP 1: Using a rolling pin or food processor, crush the Oreos into fine pieces to make the graveyard dirt.

STEP 2: Fill each plastic cup with 1 cup of pudding (or ½ cup for smaller treats) and top with a layer of crushed Oreo.

STEP 3: With black icing, write R.I.P on each cookie to make the headstones. Stick the cookie headstone into the pudding so that it stands straight. Use the squeezable icing tubes to design pumpkins, flowers, bushes, ghosts and other Halloween characters (for other ideas, check out the "variation" section below).

Serve immediately or store in the fridge until ready to serve. Graveyard pudding cups can be kept in the fridge for up to 2 days. Any longer and the cookies become soft.

Variations

• Make graveyard dirt cups with gummy worms, like the classic cup of dirt you get in restaurants. Gummy spiders are also a good addition.
• Add candy bones to look like skeletons have poked through the graveyard dirt!
• Use vanilla pudding instead of chocolate pudding, for your vanilla lover children.
• Make graveyard ghosts with cool whip or slightly melted marshmallows.
• Use candy corn and candy pumpkins to give your pudding cups a true autumn look.
• Add candy eyeballs to make your graveyard really spooky!

Enjoy!

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