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Fireplace Dust Cups – Don’t be Afraid of the Dark

A chocolate pudding cup, layered with "fireplace ash" This is an easy to assemble cup
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Setting time 1 hour
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 box Chocolate Pudding
  • 2 cups Cold Milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
Fireplace Dust
  • 10 Oreo Cookies
Optional to Make Coffee Flavored Pudding
  • 1 box Vanilla Pudding
  • 3 tbls Instant Coffee
  • 2 cups Cold Milk
  • 1 tsp Coffee Extract or 3 TBLS strongly brewed coffee

Equipment

  • 4 clear glass / wide mouth
  • 1 rolling pin or rubber mallet hammer to crush cookies
  • 1 blender to crush cookies is you want fine dust

Method
 

  1. Add the chocolate pudding and milk together
  2. Add vanilla extract
  3. Mix for 3 minutes
  4. Divide and pour the mixture into 4 cups. Fill about halfway. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour
  5. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour
  6. Sprinkle a thick layer of the cookie "dust" to the top of the chilled pudding cups.
For Coffee Flavored Pudding
  1. Add the vanilla pudding and milk together
  2. Add Coffee Extract, or add the strongly brewed coffee to the mixture
  3. Mix for 3 minutes
  4. Divide and pour the mixture into 4 cups. Fill about halfway. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour
  5. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour
  6. Sprinkle a thick layer of the cookie "dust" to the top of the chilled pudding cups.
For Fireplace Dust
  1. Untwist the Oreo cookies and scrape off the white filling. Set aside the filling and save for another use.
  2. Crush the cookies by either adding them to a Ziploc bag and gently hitting them with the rolling pin OR add the cookies to a blender and tap blend until the cookies are crumbled.

Notes

You can crumble some larger pieces of cookies just before serving to add a little more texture to your cookie dust.
Don't add the cookie dust until you are ready to serve. The cookie layer can get mushy if it's allowed to sit on top of the pudding for too long.
These cups are great to make ahead ( reserving the cookies to add just before serving) and can be used in any movie night that has dirt, or digging in it. 
We have used this recipe as a gummy worm cup, and as a buried treasure cup for our Black Sails pirate movie night.