Dirt Cake - I

Photo: flickr user szlea

Ingredients

3 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese

2 lg. pkg. instant vanilla pudding

Milk for pudding, as needed

1 (16 oz.) Cool Whip

2 lg. pkg. Oreo cookies

Preparation

Artificial flower (or weeds), frogs, lizards, animals, little rubber snakes, worms, animal crackers, people, gummy bears, gummy anything, etc.

10" flower pot (fitted with clear plastic bag) or other appropriate or wild container. Clean, plastic pail is nice.

Prepare pudding according to directions. Cream the cheese and add to the set pudding. Whip together until smooth. Add Cool Whip to this mixture and whip. Put in refrigerator while preparing crumbs.

Crush Oreos and mix. In appropriate container layer crumbs, then cheese-pudding mixture until all is used; ending with cookie layer. Top and bottom cookie layers should be thickest. Decorate, use as party center piece, then eat.