Dirty Dessert

This is dirt dessert, you know the one that's usually in a flower pot with gummi worms on top. Well, I think it's much prettier in a glass trifle bowl like this one, or a hurricane vase sans worms! As for the name...my friend Olya gets the credit for that one. She's from Ukraine and some things just don't translate well so when I heard her calling it "Dirty Dessert" [with her Russian accent] I thought WOW that has a nice ring to it (wink wink) as you can imagine, I love what it implies. So I've been calling it Dirty Dessert ever since. I love this stuff!

Ingredients and Directions:

• 1 1/2 - 2 packages regular oreos

using a food processor, grind cookies to fine crumbs (or do it the old fashioned way...ziploc bag and a rolling pin). set aside

• 3 1/2 cups cold milk
• 2 (3 oz.) packages vanilla instant pudding mix

whisk together and set aside

• 1/4 cup soft butter
• 8 oz. cream cheese softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar

with an electric mixer, mix together butter and cream cheese till fluffy. sift in powdered sugar and continue to mix until smooth. add the pudding and mix until incorporated.

• 12 oz. tub of cool whip thawed

gently fold in cool whip until completely combined

-wasn't that easy?!-

Now all you have to do is layer it in a pretty clear glass bowl beginning with the crumbs. Be generous with the oreo crumb layers because that's what makes this dessert so downright dirty delicious.

When you run out of space in the bowl or you run out of the pudding mixture, sprinkle some crumbs lightly on top too as a garnish.

CHILL IN THE REFRIGERATOR AT LEAST 8 HOURS TO OVERNIGHT. Serve very cold.