Halloween Pudding Graveyard Dirt Cups
Spooky Halloween pudding graveyard dirt cups are the perfect semi-homemade snack that is perfect for kids make! Whip up a quick batch for your next party! It’s sure to be a hit! For more semi-homemade spooky desserts see my Halloween page!

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Halloween is a time for spooky fun and delicious treats! One of our favorite Halloween recipes are these Halloween Pudding dirt cups. This simple, no-bake recipe is perfect for a spooky party or a fun family night in. The best part? It’s so easy to make, even the littlest ghosts and goblins can help!
These Halloween pudding cups are super simple to make, and only requires a few ingredients which makes them a great recipe or activity to do with kids.
Start with a pre-made package of chocolate pudding and add in Oreos, gummy worms, and a few other goodies. Then layer them all right inside the cup it came in and let your guests dig in!
Options for Ingredients to use in this Recipe
- Pudding cups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, vanilla, vanilla swirls. You can use instant pudding and add it to cups and then layer with crushed cookies and sprinkles.
- Instant pudding: You can use instant pudding and add it to cups and then layer the cookies and sprinkles.
- Sandwich cookies: Oreo’s or any brand of sandwich cookie, vanilla or chocolate, ones with colored icing would be great too! Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies, Keebler Vienna Fingers cookies or other oblong cookies.
- Candies: Pumpkin candies, gummy worms, Halloween Peeps, and candy eyes.
- Sprinkles: Chocolate, white, Halloween mixes in orange or green.
More Halloween Pudding Cups Ideas:
There are lots of ways to make these creepy Halloween pudding cups. Get creative and use your imagination! Here are some of the most popular ways to get you started.
- Tombstone Cups: Pudding cups, sandwich cookies, sprinkles, red gel icing, gummy worms and candy pumpkins.
- Frankenstein Cups: Vanilla pudding, green food coloring, chocolate frosting, Oreo cookies, plastic cups and a sharpie to draw the face.
- Jack-o-lantern Cups: Vanilla pudding, orange food coloring, Oreo cookies, and a sharpie to draw the face.
- Ghost in Graveyard Cups: Pudding cups, Ghost Peeps candy, crushed Oreo cookies, and pumpkin candies.
- You could also use white frosting to create a ghost and add black eyes with gel icing and add to the top of the crushed cookies.
- Black Cat in the Graveyard Cups: Pudding cups, Black Cat Peeps candy, crushed Oreo cookies, and pumpkin candies.
- Witch Cauldron Cups: Pudding cups, green sprinkles with large and small balls, candy eyeballs, thin black licorice (for the cauldron handle), small pretzel stick (for a cauldron stirrer).
- Monster Cups: Pudding cups, sandwich cookies with green icing inside, sprinkles, candy eyes, gummy worms and candy pumpkins. Add candy eyes to the inside of the cookie on the green icing, then place it into the cookie crumbs like a tombstone.
- Pumpkin Patch Cups: Pudding cups, sandwich cookies crushed, green frosting for stems and candy pumpkins. Place candy pumpkins on the top of the cookie crumbs and then add small dots of green frosting as leaves & stems.
- Worm Cups: Pudding cups, sandwich cookies, sprinkles, and gummy worms.
Here’s how to assemble the treats!
Halloween Pudding Graveyard Dirt Cups
INGREDIENTS
- 4 Chocolate Pudding Cups
- 4 Oreo cookies or other sandwich cookies
- Red gel icing
- pumkin candies
- gummy worms
- chocolate sprinkles
INSTRUCTIONS
- Split one Oreo cookie in half.
- On the half with the white frosting write RIP & BOO with red gel icing.
- Take the unused halves of the cookies and place in a plastic bag and crush them using a mallet.
- Place the crushed cookie crumbs on top of the pudding in the cup.
- Add the chocolate sprinkles on top of the cookie layer.
- Place the frosted cookie pushed down into the cookie topping to create a grave stone.
- Add pumpkin candies and gummy worms.
Graveyard Pudding Cups
Ingredients
- 4 Chocolate Pudding Cups
- 4 Oreo cookies or other sandwich cookies
- Red gel icing
- pumkin candies
- gummy worms
- chocolate sprinkles
Instructions
- Split one Oreo cookie in half.
- On the half with the white frosting write RIP & BOO with red gel icing.
- Take the unused halves of the cookies and place in a plastic bag and crush them using a mallet.
- Place the crushed cookie crumbs on top of the pudding in the cup.
- Add the chocolate sprinkles on top of the cookie layer.
- Place the frosted cookie pushed down into the cookie topping to create a grave stone.
- Add pumpkin candies and gummy worms.
Nutrition
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Whether you’re looking for a last-minute treat or simply want to switch things up this year, Halloween dirt pudding is sure to be a hit with both kids and adults alike. So get creative and have fun with it!