These Halloween pudding cups are an easy dessert. Made with instant pudding, crushed cookies, and creepy gummy candy, they are quick to make.
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Creepy and crawly, these cute Halloween pudding cups are easy to make and will look great on your Halloween dessert table.
Cost To Make
Estimated cost = $4.30 or about $0.71 a serve
Why You'll Love This Recipe:
You will love these Halloween pudding cups because:
- These pudding cups with a cookie dirt topping are easy to make.
- They are a budget-friendly dessert made with instant pudding mix, cookies, and candy.
- These dirt puddings require no cooking or baking, but you will need an electric or hand mixer.
Ingredients In This Recipe
The printable recipe further down the page has the complete list of ingredients, including quantities and step-by-step instructions.
Instant pudding mix - We used a vanilla-flavored pudding.
Note - The servings from instant pudding mixes vary, and you may get 4 or 6 servings from your pudding mix.
Our pudding mix made six servings and used 700ml (23.66 ounces, almost 3 cups of milk).
Chocolate cookies - We used pieces of Oreo chocolate sandwich cookies left over from making Oreo eyeballs, but any chocolate cookie will work.
Assorted Halloween candy - you could use gummy worms, little candy pumpkins, candy corn, gummy body parts, snakes, or candy eyes.
Equipment
- Electric mixer or hand beater
- 4-6 x 167 ml (5.9 ounces) glasses or clear plastic cups
Step By Step Instructions
All you need to do is, make the pudding mix to the instructions on the packet.
Divide the mixture between serving glasses, top with crushed chocolate cookie crumbs, and decorate with Halloween-themed candy.
Recipe Tips
- If making several batches of Halloween pudding cups, use a food processor to make cookie crumbs.
- If you want a thicker and denser pudding, replace some milk with cream.
- Make it family style, and serve the pudding in a large bowl and go wild with the decorations.
Serving Size
A serving size is one pudding cup from a serving of six.
Calories Per Serve
There are approximately 143 calories in a serving without candy toppings.
Variations
Add food gel
This easy Halloween pudding recipe can also be made with chocolate instant pudding or color vanilla pudding with a few drops of gel food coloring to make green pudding, purple pudding, or orange pudding.
Make graveyard pudding cups
To make graveyard or tombstone pudding cups, use instant chocolate pudding and top with chocolate cookie crumbs.
Decorate the cups with a tombstone made from a long plain cookie like a Milano cookie, sour gummy worms, candy bones, or small candied pumpkins.
You could "engrave" the tombstone with "RIP" using an edible black marker or chocolate piping.
Frankenstein pudding cups
Before making the pudding, use a permanent marker to draw faces onto the outside of clear plastic cups.
Fill the cups with green-colored pudding. To make a green pudding, add a few drops of green food coloring to instant vanilla pudding.
Finish the Frankenstein pudding cups with chocolate cookie crumbs for the hair.
Storage
Store in the fridge until ready to serve.
Meal Prepping
If you are planning on making a batch of these for a Halloween party, you can do some preparation in advance;
- The night before - Make the pudding and pour it into the serving cups, seal and store it in the fridge until needed.
- The next day - About an hour before serving them, add the crushed cookie crumbs and decorate them with candy. Return to the fridge until ready to serve.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you can make these can in advance. However, the longer the cookie crumbs are on top of the pudding, the softer they will get.
If you wanted crunch cookie crumbs on top, make the pudding and add the cookie crumbs and candy just before serving.
More Halloween Recipe Ideas
If you like this recipe for Halloween Pudding Cups you might also like to see this collection of Easy Halloween Foods to Make or the recipes below:
I do hope that you try these Halloween pudding cups. If you do, please come back and leave a comment below because I would love to know how you went.
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Recipe
Easy Halloween Pudding Cups
EQUIPMENT
- Electric mixer or hand beater
- 4-6 x 167 ml (5.9 ounces) glass or plastic tumblers
INGREDIENTS
- 100 grams (3.52 ounces) of instant vanilla pudding mix
- 7-9 chocolate cookies or more if needed
- Assorted Halloween gummy candy snakes, and candy eyes
INSTRUCTIONS
- Make the pudding mix as outlined on your pudding mix packet. Note: Servings from pudding mixes vary, and you may get 4 or 6 servings from your pudding mix. Our pudding mix used 700ml (23.66 ounces, almost 3 cups of milk) and made 6 servings.
- Divide the mixture evenly between the tumblers leaving about 2.5 cm (1 inch) of space at the top.
- Place the chocolate cookies into a small zip lock bag and crush them into small coarse crumbs.
- Top each pudding cup with 2-3 teaspoons of the cookie crumbs and decorate with the gummy candy, snakes, and eyes.
- Store in the fridge until ready to serve.
Notes
- The night before - Make the pudding and pour it into the serving dishes, seal and store it in the fridge until needed.
- The next day - About an hour before serving them, add the crushed cookie crumbs and decorate them with candy. Return to the fridge until ready to serve.
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