Easter Dirt Cups are a tasty and incredibly easy Easter dessert made in only 10 minutes with 4 simple ingredients. There is no cooking, chopping or cutting and virtually no mess to clean up! My kids love helping to make them.
They're made with lots of chocolate pudding, a layer of green sweet coconut grass and hidden jelly bean eggs, plus a colorful Peep bunny who's doing all the egg hiding! All ingredients are premade, so that means we're simply opening packages and putting them in a cup. If you want to make a homemade pudding, try my chocolate almond milk pudding.
We love making fun Easter desserts like chocolate covered strawberry carrots, coconut bunny tails and an Easter candy charcuterie board.
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Ingredients
- Shredded coconut: used as the grass on top of the dirt. Use sweetened for the best flavor.
- Green food coloring: to dye the coconut grass.
- Chocolate pudding: use store bought pudding to make it really easy or homemade chocolate pudding.
- Jelly beans: use an assortment of small and large colorful jelly beans to look like eggs hiding in grass.
- Peeps: a bunny Peep is placed in each cup to make it look like an Easter egg hunt.
You'll also need 4-ounce clear cups, preferably plastic. White cups also are okay but the kids won't see the dirt until they start digging in!
Instructions
Making this super easy Easter dessert takes less than 10 minutes and can be made with the kid for some holiday baking fun (or without as a surprise!). The most time consuming part of making Easter dirt cups is dying the shredded coconut and still that only takes about 3 minutes.
- Dye the shredded coconut green using food coloring. Place the coconut in a large glass mixing bowl and add food coloring about 1 teaspoon at a time. Mix with a wooden spoon until the coconut is completely green. Add more food coloring as you see fit to make it as dark as you'd like. I use gel food coloring or liquid coloring and they both work here.
- Make the chocolate pudding cups- the funnest part! Fill each 4-ounce cup with chocolate pudding, leaving about ¼ inch for the coconut grass. Add a layer of green coconut shreds to the top of the pudding.
- Place one bunny peep into the coconut, pressing it down into the pudding so that it stands straight. Scatter jelly beans throughout the coconut and sprinkle some more coconut on top so the eggs are slightly hidden.
Recipe
Easter Dirt Cups
Equipment
- 8 4 ounce cups
Ingredients
- 1 cup shredded coconut sweetened
- green food coloring
- 4 cups chocolate pudding
- ½ cup jelly beans
- 8 Peeps bunny variety
Instructions
- Dye the shredded coconut green using food coloring. Place the coconut in a large glass mixing bowl and add food coloring about 1 teaspoon at a time. Mix with a wooden spoon until the coconut is completely green. Add more food coloring as you see fit to make it as dark as you'd like.
- Fill each 4-ounce cup with chocolate pudding, leaving about ¼ inch for the coconut grass. Add a layer of green coconut shreds to the top of the pudding.
- Place one bunny peep into the coconut, pressing it down into the pudding so that it stands straight. Scatter jelly beans throughout the coconut and sprinkle some more coconut on top so the eggs are slightly hidden.
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