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 candy pumpkins, bones and gummy worms. 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 (unless you'd like to make your own chocolate pudding ahead of time)!
Pudding cups are one of favorite treats to celebrate the holiday, along with Graveyard Brownies and Spider Donuts!
My recipe 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
- Candy pumpkins
- Gummy worms
- Candy bones
- Clear plastic cups or glass desert 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. This is an optional step. You can make them with just the pudding to keep it real quick and easy.
STEP 2: Fill each plastic cup with 1 cup of pudding (or Ā½ cup for smaller treats) and top with a layer of crushed Oreo (if using).
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. Decorate with a gummy worm, candy pumpkin and as many candy bones as you'd like (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
- Gummy spiders are a fun addition, along with the gummy worms.
- 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 to give your pudding cups a true autumn look.
- Add candy eyeballs to make your graveyard really spooky!
Enjoy!
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Recipe
Graveyard Pudding Cups
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 cups chocolate pudding
- 10 Oreo cookies, cream filling removed
- 4 Milano cookies
- black writing icing
- squeezable tube icing, colors of choice
- 4 candy pumpkins
- 12 candy bones
- 4 gummy worms
Instructions
- Using a rolling pin or food processor, crush the Oreos into fine pieces to make the graveyard dirt. This is optional step. For quicker pudding cups, leave out the "dirt".
- Fill each plastic cup with 1 cup of pudding (or Ā½ cup for smaller treats) and top with a layer of crushed Oreo if using.
- 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. Decorate with a gummy worm, candy pumpkin and as many candy bones as you'd like (for other ideas, check out the variations in the notes 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.
Notes
- Gummy spiders are a fun addition along with the gummy worms
- 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 to give your pudding cups a true autumn look.
- Add candy eyeballs to make your graveyard really spooky!
Stephanie
These are so adorable! Planning to make with the kids for Halloween.
Cathleen
This is such a great idea for Halloween! I'm definitely going to be doing this this year, thank you so much for this idea š
Sarah James
Your Graveyard Pudding Cups are so cute and perfect for a kid's Halloween party. Bookmarking for Halloween, thanks for sharing.
Mindy
Such a fun treat that is also yummy! Going to make this again for Halloween!
Mikayla
Super fun and cute to make with your kiddos on a lazy Saturday or for a party you're planning!
Kathryn
This is such a cute idea for Halloween parties! I love how they are in individual cups- perfect for kiddos! Thanks for the recipe.
Bernice
What a cute idea! I can see these being popular with the kiddos at our next Halloween party... which is coming up soon! Wow, I'd better get planning and pin this post on my Halloween ideas board.
sophie
A spooky and scrumptious Halloween treat! My kids loved it!
Veronika
These are so cute! What a fun dessert to make for the kids for Halloween! So easy they'll be able to help too!
Amy Liu Dong
How adorable! Halloween is coming and this just perfect for the event! Iām sure the chiildren and adults will love this!
Jamie
Wow! This Graveyard Pudding Cup is such an amazing idea! It looks absolutely delicious! It just looks so perfect, such a masterpiece! A very timely too, for this Halloween festivity! Loved it!