Dirt Cake

This cookie crumb/pudding dessert tastes a lot better than it looks! For Halloween, I decorate with gummy worms and even found gummy skeletons. This dessert can also be made to look like the "dirt" from a flower pot, or the "dirt" in a child's Tonka dump truck. Use your imagination; the possibilities are endless.

Ingredients:
8 oz Cool Whip
16 oz pkg Oreo cookies, completely crushed into crumbs
3 c. milk
8 oz cream cheese, softened
2 small boxes vanilla instant pudding
1 stick butter, softened
1 c. powdered sugar
1 t. vanilla

Directions:
Mix cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add sugar and fold in Cool Whip. In a separate bowl, mix together the pudding mix, vanilla, and milk. Fold cream cheese mixture into pudding mixture.

In a trifle bowl, layer crushed cookies and pudding-cheese mixture alternatively until gone, finishing the top with cookie crumbs.

Refrigerate for at least two hours. Decorate with gummy worms or however you like.