I made this for my daughter's birthday. I used two large boxes of pudding and about 4 cups of milk, but kept the other measurements the same. It was way too sweet, and I'm a sweets kind of person! Some of the kids didn't finish theirs because it was so sweet. Next time, I would leave out the butter, cream cheese, and DEFINITELY the powdered sugar. Oh, I used Famous Amos cookies and they were just as good as Oreos.

I made this last weekend for my son and all his friends and they loved it. Best Dirt Cake recipe I have come across. I will be making again many times.

Very good! My son and I made our "dirt cake" for Earth Day! I followed recipe just as is and it was great. The milk amount was just fine you just need to add slowly. I only added about a 1/2 cup at a time.

This was really good. I made this for my Daisy Girl Scouts to celebrate Earth Day. (We also drank bug juice). I fed them a whole big story on how I dug the dirt up special for them that morning. After that I gave each girl her own cup of dirt to their surprised looks. However, I disagree with another reviewer who said that it is best to serve in a clear glass bowl. It is really only the cookie crumbs on top that look like dirt. Seeing through the clear cups the girls quickly realized it was pudding. Where as if it was in a flower pot or even a solid cup or bowl one only sees the dirt cookie crumbs with worms on top.

I have a step son who doesn't care for regular cake. I made this for him for his birthday and ALL of the kids went NUTS over it! The cream cheese gives it that decadent taste...yummy!! I did crush the cookies in a big ziploc bag first, then food processor. Made them nice and fine. Some kids really thought it was dirt on top! The only thing I may do different is to put the gummy worms on just before serving. They got a little hard from being refridgerated. Thanks for the GREAT recipe!

This is a great recipe. We have made it many times, and if you want to you can change it according to your tastes by using different flavors of pudding, and different flavors of cookies. We always use light cool whip and lite cream cheese and you can't tell one bit of difference. Also, we skip the powdered sugar. It just doesn't need it. A deep glass bowl looks the best to make it in, but a glass 9 X 13 pan is good too. The trouble with using a flowerpot is that you can't see through it which is really a big part of the appeal.

this recipe is great! but what would be also wonderful is if you made like a candy land, just like the game candy land! i think that the kids would love you after that. like when i was younger, when i was about 10, we went to a friend house for like this big kids party, and it was a whole lot of kids! and a lady brought one of thoses and after i ate it i just loved her! and it was not only because it tasted really good but mostly because it looked so creative and nice!

This was a huge hit with the after school kids I work with. We were releasing earthworms into the garden we planted today and I thought this would be a fun tie-in. They actually thought it was real dirt on top! Beware, though. It is very messy. Next time I will use a big serving spoon rather than a spatula.

made it in pudding cups (this recipe or other version), really yummy treat, made with oetker's pudding mix, and whipping cream

This came out perfect. a whole bucket gone before you know it.

We made this recipe in Family and Consumer science at school. We cut the recipe in half though, so our proportions were fine. You do need less milk for this recipe, because you need the pudding thicker. This was very tasty, although after four bites it was so rich it was hard to eat.

My step son is allergic to eggs, so this was the perfect birthday cake for him. I followed the recipe exactly and it came out perfect.

This is always a hit. I usually make it with low fat whipped topping, cream cheese, skim milk and sugar free pudding mix and it still turns out wonderfully. When I take this to a party I never bring any home.

Very yummy! I would give it 4 1/2 if I could! I followed the recipe exactly and got rave reviews.

This turned out really great. My girls loved it. I didn't realy follow the directions and thought I needed more cookie crumbs so following the advise of other reviewers I used more then directed. The cake turned out too crummy. Next time I'll follow the directions exactly. Also, it didn't say in the recipe but you do need to add the milk slowly to the cream cheese and butter. Add it all at once and you end up with a mess, but a little bit at a time will work together nicely. I was in a hurry and forgot that little cooking tip. =)

It turned out well, set up nicely. I omitted the vanilla and used extra gummi worms. The kids love it! The only thing I found was wrong was that I could have EASILY used 2 packages of cookies. My middle cookie layer is almost non-existant.