A dessert your dad will dig!
Get your green thumb on this Father’s Day! Actually, it’s more like a chocolate thumb! Turn Chocolate Mud Pie or Chocolate Pudding into edible tiny terrariums for a fun dessert Dad will dig.
Epicure Gardening Tools
Chocolate Mud Pie Mix or Chocolate Pudding
Cocoa Crunch Whole Food Topper
Extra Gardening Ingredients
Be sure to check the label for the fresh ingredients for either Chocolate Mud Pie or Pudding.
Choose any or all of the following ingredients for your edible terrarium:
· Gummy worms or Swedish fish gummies– all gardens need critters!
· Chocolate baking crumbs – edible dirt
· Strawberries, blackberries, raspberries or blueberries – make great ‘rocks’
· Chocolate chips make great pebbles
· Fresh mint – plant trees
Grow Your Garden
Muddy Bottom
Get digging! Prepare at least 3 hours or up to 3 days in advance.
Follow package directions and prepare Chocolate Mud Pie (makes 2 ¾ cups) or Chocolate Instant Pudding (makes 3 cups). Divide between Prep Bowls, filling about half full – be sure to leave room for the topsoil and trees. If you have leftover filling, portion into more Prep Bowls or small bowls for use another day.
Topsoil
Get muddy! Add this layer up to 2 hours before serving.
Scatter Cocoa Crunch Whole Food Topper and/or chocolate baking crumbs over base. Poke in a few gummy worms or other edible creatures. Add berry rocks and chocolate chip pebbles.
Pro tip: To make strawberry boulders, cut the pointy tip from berries. Coat in Cocoa Crunch or chocolate baking crumbs.
Trees
Let it bloom! Add trees just before serving so they stay fresh.
Break fresh mint sprigs into tiny “trees” and poke deep into the soil. Now stand back and admire the fruits of your labour!