Dirt
Cups
This fun-to-make-and-eat snack can be made in
many different containers. It can even be put into a
clean and never-used flowerpot or
sandpail. These would be lots of fun for a birthday party
treat!
 Ingredients you will need to
make 8 Dirt Cups :
- 1/2 cup/125 ml Watkins Chocolate
Dessert Mix
- 1/2 cup/125 ml sugar
- 1/2 cup/125 ml water
- 2-1/2 cups/725 ml milk
- 1 package (16 oz/480 g) chocolate
sandwich cookies, crushed
- 1 container (8 oz/250 ml) frozen
whipped topping, thawed in refrigerator
- 8 (7 oz/210 ml) plastic cups (or
whatever container you are using)
Instructions:
- Measure the Chocolate Dessert
Mix, sugar, and water, inot a large microwave-safe bowl; stir it all
together well.
- Stir in the milk; and mix
well. Place in the microwave and cook on HIGH for 2 minutes,
take it out of the microwave and stir it all up. Put it back
into the microwave and cook on HIGH for 3 minutes. Take it out
of the microwave and stir it all up again. Put it back into
the microwave and cook on HIGH for another 3 minutes. Remove
it from the microwave and stir it again. The pudding should be
getting thick; if it's not, then return it to the microwave and cook
on HIGH for 2 minutes more. Remove it from the microwave and
stir it once again. Place a piece of plastic wrap or waxed
paper on top of the pudding bowl (don't let it touch the pudding
though!) and let it cool until it is no longer warm.
- To easily crush the cookies,
place them in a zipper-lock plastic bag and seal it up. Using
a rolling pin, roll over the cookies several times until they are
crushed.
- Divide half of the cookies evenly
in the bottom of the 8 plastic cups..
- Combine the whipped topping and
the cooled pudding and mix them together
well. Fill the cups with the pudding mixture.
- Top each cup with the remaining
crushed cookies. Put them into the refrigerator for at least
one hour to cool them thoroughly. Before serving, you can
decorate them with gummy worms or frogs, candy flowers, or chopped
peanuts.
 If you would like to make grass for on top of the "dirt",
place shredded coconut in a small plastic bag. Add a few drops
of green food colouring. Close the bag up and shake -
instant green grass!
Celery Carts
These carts can also be filled with other
flavours of Watkins Snack & Dip Mixes - choose your
favourite! You can also try filling them with cheese spread or
peanut butter.
 Ingredients you
will need to make 8 carts:
- 4 large celery
stalks
- 4 oz/125 ml soft-spread cream
cheese
- 1-1/2 tbsp/45
ml Watkins Garden Vegetable Snack & Dip
Mix
- 2 carrots
- 16 wooden round
toothpicks
Instructions:
- Rinse the celery with water
and then pat dry with a clean towel or paper towel. Set them
aside for now.
- Put the cream cheese into a
bowl and let it stand at room temperature for a little while until
it becomes soft enough to stir easily.
- When it is soft, add the
Garden Vegetable Dip Mix and stir it all together well.
- With a table knife, fill
each celery stalk with the cream cheese mixture. Cut
each stalk in half so you have 8 "carts"
full.
- Peel the carrots and cut them
into 32 round slices. Attach the carrot slices to the
toothpicks so they look like wheels.
- Place a filled celery stalk on
two of these sets of wheels so it now resembles a cart. Place
them on a serving plate. If you're not eating them all at
once, put the extras into the refrigerator for
later.
Older cooks can poke toothpicks into the
celery before putting on the carrot wheels.
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