beach bear vanilla dirt cups;
"Cup o' dirt" summer style! Vanilla pudding layered with blue beach waves, and topped with a sprinkle of edible sand. Top each cup with beach-going bears and their accessories to make them even more fun!
Oven Temp: -
Servings: 10
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Equipment
- 10 plastic cups
Ingredients
vanilla dirt cups;
- 2 3.4oz pkgs instant pudding mix (vanilla, french vanilla, cheesecake, etc.)
- 4 cups milk (or as needed for pudding instructions)
- 1 package golden oreos (optionally, sub nilla wafers or graham crackers. I used gluten-free oreos)
- 8 oz whipped topping thawed
- blue food coloring (optional)
beach bear toppings;
- 25 honey teddy grahams
- 20 gummy lifesavers
- sour belts (airheads xtremes or like for rainbow towels)
- 10 drink umbrellas
- any other toppings! (gummy sharks, gummy starfish, etc.)
Instructions
vanilla dirt cups;
- Mix together instant vanilla pudding and 4 cups milk (or follow package instructions). Whisk together until no lumps remain and refrigerate until set.
- Meanwhile prepare your sand. Remove cream from the oreos and add cookies to a food processor. Blend until fine grained sand, and set aside.
- Optionally, create your water. You have two options here, add drops of food coloring to the entire tub of whipped topping and mix to make a solid blue color. Or, reserve roughly a ½ - 1 cup of whipped topping and add drops of blue food coloring to swirl in blue food coloring for a tie-dye look.
- Assemble your cups. Layer pudding, then whipped topping, then pudding until cup is mostly full. Leave roughly 1" at the top. Add a layer of oreo "sand", making sure to leave at least ½" at the top for your scene. Repeat for all 10 cups.
beach bear toppings;
- Assemble the beach bear scenes. I like some variety, so some cups have slightly different scenes. All units for the ingredients here can be tweaked depending on how consistent you want the scenes.
- Using scissors or a knife, trim the sour belts to roughly 1¼" lengths to create towels.
- Assemble your scenes by adding drink umbrellas, towels, teddy grahams, and lifesavers on each of your beach bear dirt cups. If you chose to have water in your scene, then add some gummy sharks for good measure!
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