Dirt Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 stick butter or margarine, softened
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 c. powdered sugar
3 1/2 c. milk
2 (3 1/2 oz. each) pkg. instant vanilla pudding
1 (12 oz.) carton frozen whipped topping
2 (20 oz. each) pkg. Oreo cookies, crushed in food processor or blender

Preparation

Cream butter, cream cheese and powdered sugar.
In another bowl, mix milk, pudding and whipped topping.
Combine mixtures. Put 1/3 of crushed cookies in bottom of foil-lined clay pot or plastic sand pail.
Add 1/2 of pudding mixture.
Top with 1/3 of cookies, then remaining filling.
Top with rest of cookie crumbs before serving.
If desired, add plastic greens or flowers.
Serve with a garden spade.
Makes 10 to 12 large servings.
You can use real flowers.
Cut straw in half; insert flower stem, then stick straw into dirt cake.