Dirt cake, also called dirt and worms, is an American cake made from cookies and pudding in combination with other ingredients to create a dessert that has a resemblance to soil or earth. It is made by combining crushed Oreo cookies on top of vanilla or chocolate pudding, and adding gummy candy worms on top.Kathy Charner Dirt Cake The giant encyclopedia of preschool activities for four-year-olds] page 545Richard W. Hartel, AnnaKate Hartel Food Bites: The Science of the Foods We Eat page 79 Variations include vanilla wafers, vanilla pudding,Arlene Voski Avakian Through the kitchen window: women explore the intimate meanings of food and cooking Editor Arlene Voski Avakian, Publisher Berg Publishers, 2006 , , 315 pages, page 61 whipped cream or Cool Whip, and cream cheese pudding in the recipe.
Several bakeries in Singapore sold dirt cakes served in flowerpots after the dessert appeared on the Taiwanese show A Hint of You. In 2016, chefs in Bangalore created a dirt cake weighing 1,078 kg, setting a Guinness world record. In 2024, Oreo released a limited edition Dirt Cake flavor cookie.
See also Mississippi mud pie Mud pie, an inedible item created as part of a children's pretend game
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External links Example recipe: A Three Year Old's Dream: Dirt Cake from Mindy's Mouthful