Dirt Cups

Made with homemade chocolate pudding and crushed Oreo cookies, these Halloween Dirt Cups put a spooky spin on nostalgic dirt dessert pudding cups!

Cornstarch

Combine milk, sugar, and cocoa powder in a saucepan over medium heat until steaming and warm.

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In a heat-proof bowl, whisk together remaining milk, cornstarch, salt, egg yolks, and vanilla extract.

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Temper the eggs by slowly adding about half of the steaming chocolate milk into the egg mixture.

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Add the egg mixture back to the saucepan and heat over medium heat, whisking constantly.

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When pudding comes to a rolling boil, continue to whisk and boil as pudding thickens.

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Remove pudding from heat and pour or spoon into jars or ramekins.

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Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate the pudding for at least 4 hours.

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Remove the jars from the fridge and remove the plastic wrap. Top each pudding cup with the crushed Oreos.

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Decorate with white chocolate spiderwebs and M&M caterpillars. See recipe post for tutorial.

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Dirt Cups

Halloween

Made with homemade chocolate pudding and crushed Oreo cookies, these Halloween Dirt Cups put a spooky spin on nostalgic dirt dessert pudding cups!

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Cornstarch

Salt

Melting Wafers

Egg Yolks

Sugar

Vanilla

Dutch cocoa

Milk

Crushed Oreos

M&Ms

Combine milk, sugar, and cocoa powder in a saucepan over medium heat until steaming and warm.

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In a heat-proof bowl, whisk together remaining milk, cornstarch, salt, egg yolks, and vanilla extract.

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Temper the eggs by slowly adding about half of the steaming chocolate milk into the egg mixture.

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Add the egg mixture back to the saucepan and heat over medium heat, whisking constantly.

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When pudding comes to a rolling boil, continue to whisk and boil as pudding thickens.

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Remove pudding from heat and pour or spoon into jars or ramekins.

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Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate the pudding for at least 4 hours.

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Remove the jars from the fridge and remove the plastic wrap. Top each pudding cup with the crushed Oreos.

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Decorate with white chocolate spiderwebs and M&M caterpillars. See recipe post for tutorial.

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