Dirt Cake - Letter "D"

by: Sheila Boyd

Ingredients:
1 c. confectioners' sugar
1/4 c. butter or margarine
1 - 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese
1 - 8 oz. Cool Whip
2 pkgs. French Vanilla pudding (instant)
3 1/3 c. milk
Lg. bag Oreo cookies, crushed
1 pkg. gummy worms

Directions:
In one bowl combine sugar, butter, and cream cheese. Blend well. In another bowl, mix Cool Whip, contents of the two pudding packets, and milk. Then combine both mixtures. In a medium plastic flower pot, layer cookies and mix. Make sure to put cookies on bottom and top. May decorate with artificial flower and use a garden spade to serve with.

mixing sugar, butter, and cream cheese

breaking up the Oreos

Oreo Cheesecake

Oreo Cheesecake

Crust:

24 crushed Oreos
¼ cup Sugar
1/3 cup butter

Pull apart and scrape out the filling from 24 cookies; crush those cookies and mix with butter and sugar. Press firmly onto the bottom of a spring form pan. Bake five minutes at 350 degrees.
Stand remaining 14 cookies around the edge of pan, firmly pressing bottom edge of each cookie into crust.

Filling:
3 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, at room temperature
¾ Cup sugar
2 Large Eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 tablespoons Cornstarch
1 Cup Sour Cream

Beat together cheese and sugar until light and smooth. Beat in eggs, vanilla and cornstarch only until thoroughly mixed. Stir in sour cream until mixture is well blended. Pour into crust. Bake cheesecake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. Remove from oven and place in refrigerator to cool immediately. This prevents cracks from forming in the cake.