CUB GRUB & FUN FOODS

Dirt Cake
Baloo's Archives

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ # pkg Oreos
• 1/2 stick margarine
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 3.5 cups milk
• 2 small boxes instant vanilla pudding
• 12 oz. Cool Whip

Directions:

• Crush Oreos until fine.
• Cream margarine, cream cheese and powdered sugar together.
• Mix milk and pudding and combine with margarine mixture.
• Mix well, then add Cool Whip.
• Using a large rectangular cake pan, alternate layers of Oreo crumbs and pudding mixture in the containers. 
• Arrange top layer to look like a path. 
• Add various gummy and other candies to look like litter along the path

Quicky Dirt Pudding
Great Salt Lake Council

Ingredients:

• Chocolate pudding snack packs (enough for each boy)
• Large plastic cups (enough for each boy)
• Chocolate cookie crumbs (Oreos work well)
• Gummy worms (about 3 or 4 per boy)

Directions:

• Scoop the pudding out of the pack and
• Place it into the plastic cup.
• Add cookie crumbs and gummy worms.
• Mix together and enjoy.

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
Great Salt Lake Council

Ingredients:

• 1 stick butter, softened but not runny
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 1/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350° – Yields about 3 dozen
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add egg and beat until fluffy.
• Add sour cream and vanilla.
• Blend well
• Mix together flour, baking soda and salt.
• Gradually add to creamed mixture. (May need to add a little more flour).
• On floured board or counter, roll out to 1/8 – 1/4 inch thick.
• Cut out into desired shapes.
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 5 – 7 minutes or until done (shine in gone and edges of cookies are beginning to brown lightly).
• Cool and let the boy have fun decorating.

EARTH RICE CRISPY TREATS 
Sam Houston Area Council

Directions:

• Mix a batch of crispy rice treats (visit www.ricekrispies.com  if you need a recipe).
• Rather than placing the batch of treats in a 9”x 13” pan to cool, put the batch of treats in a round pizza pan.
• Once the treats have cooled, use green and blue frosting to color the earth (continents and oceans) on the round crispy treat.

DIRT CUPS 
Sam Houston Area Council

• 2 cups of cold milk
• 1 package (4 serving size) instant pudding (chocolate flavor)
• 3 ½ cups (8 ounce container) whipped topping, thawed
• 1 package (16 ounces) chocolate sandwich cookies. Crush them into tiny pieces in a plastic bag.
• 10 cups
• Gummy worms or insects

• Mix milk and pudding in a bowl with a wire whisk until blended.
• Stir in whipped topping.
• Add half of the crushed cookies.
• Divide pudding mixture between the cups.
• Sprinkle remaining cookies on top of the pudding in each cup.
• Add gummy worms.

MUDPIE COOKIES 
Sam Houston Area Council

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• ½ cup milk
• ½ cup butter
• ½ cup peanut butter
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• 2 cups oatmeal
• 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring

Directions:

• Lay out sheets of waxed paper on table or counter.
• Mix the sugar and the cocoa together in a bowl.
• Stir in the milk.
• Put the mixture in a pot, add the butter, and put it on the stove to cook. It needs to come to a full boil and cook for two minutes.
• Keep stirring the mixture the whole time so that it won't burn.
• Take the mixture off of the stove and add to the bowl of sugar and cocoa.
• Dip, by spoonfuls, on to waxed paper and cool.