This Dirt Cup Dessert Recipe Is Great for Kids (2024)

FAQs

What is the dessert dirt made of? ›

Dirt dessert alternates layers of crushed Oreo cookies and a lightened chocolate pudding mixture that is made to look like “dirt”, complete with (gummy) worms!

In a bowl, add in the Yogo chocolate dessert, crushed Choc Ripple biscuits and chopped marshmallows. Mix the ingredients together. Serve immediately or refrigerate for approximately 2 hours, so that the marshmallows soak up the Yogo. Enjoy!

A: We say that it takes 500 to thousands of years to create an inch of topsoil. The reason is that soil is often derived from rock. The rock has to be broken into small pieces first. This happens by physical weathering: things like freezing and thawing in colder climates, and chemical weathering in warmer climates.

At its peak, Western Australians devoured 12,000 tubs of Dirt Dessert each week. But it was discontinued in 2013 because of poor sales.

For those unfamiliar with the Brownes delicacy, it had a base of chocolate crumble “dirt” and soft gooey marshmallows covered with chocolate Yogo. It was deleted in 2012 due to a low sales rate and super fans of the gooey delight have been petitioning for the company to bring it back ever since.

YoGo is an Australian yoghurt dessert snack made by Bega Dairy & Drinks. It comes in a yoghurt tub filled with chocolate custard. Its mascot is the YoGo Gorilla (voiced by Paul Johnstone), who mainly became popular from commercials throughout the 90s to the mid-2000s.

Native Americans created a blueberry baked dessert called Saututhig (say 'sawi-taw-teeg'), a simple pudding made with blueberries, cracked corn and water. Try this Blueberry Slump (cobbler) recipe, which may be related to the traditional Native American Saututhig.

Ingredients. Chocolate YoGo: Milk, Skim Milk, Water, Sugar, Milk Solids, Thickeners (1422, 412, 401, 407), Cocoa (1%), Cream, Flavour, Colour (150d), Salt.

Mix equal parts compost and coir for your soil — 6 gallons of each is a good starting place. Then add 3 gallons of wood chips (or perlite or vermiculite). Experiment with the mixture to obtain the texture and quantity you need for your gardening. You might want to mix in some sand to get the desired texture.

Dirt is made up of a mix of organic matter, although it is actually “dead.” That matter includes sand, clay, silt, rocks, pebbles, and more. However, what dirt does not contain is any of the minerals and nutrients from a garden soil mix, nor anything close to resembling a live and working ecosystem.

What is dirt usually made of? ›

Dirt is made up of sand, silt, and clay, and it may be rocky. It has none of the minerals, nutrients, or living organisms found in soil. It is not an organized ecosystem. There is no topsoil or humus, no worms or fungi.

Where Did Dirt Cakes Originate? Dirt cakes are believed to be a spin on the Mississippi mud pie, a popular chocolate dessert from the 1960s. Dirt cakes took the concept of layering chocolate cookie crumble and pudding, like a trifle. It was first seen in the 1980s in the American Midwest, specifically made for kids.

Over hundreds of years, rocks break down into tiny grains, and these small grains, mixed with plant and animal matter — decayed roots, leaves, dead bugs and worms, and other organic matter thrown in, along with water and air — is what we call dirt or soil.