for the mud i used 2 boxes of royal brand chocolate pudding, although the instructions gives you a recipe for home-made chocolate pudding (which is faster?). the 2 boxes only filled 16 cups (about 1/3 c. each), and i have to fill 22. i think i should've made 3 boxes...guess it's a trip to the store tomorrow.
for the dirt effect, instead of using cocoa powder, i used chatfield's unsweetened carob powder mixed with some confectioner's sugar. the instructions said the chocolate sprinkles were optional, but of course we added those in! how can you resist? especially chocolate sprinkles imported from indonesia. i really like these chocolate sprinkles, because it tastes sweeter than the chocolate sprinkles made here in the states. i don't know if it's the cocoa butter in the ingredients or what, but it tastes so good!
after i put the pudding, carob powder and sprinkles in the cup (in that order), i added the sour gummy bugs. the instructions actually call for gummy worms (hence the "worms" in the name of the treat), but i couldn't find any at marc's and i wasn't going to go to a different place just to p/u gummy worms. i'm only using 2 bags of sweetarts' gummy bugs, which should fill all 22 cups with 4 bugs each.
and voila! the finished product...a nice assortment of snails (not really a bug), lady bugs, spiders (which aren't actually bugs), and mini worms (which aren't bugs either...ugh!). we (tyler and i) thought the assortment of creatures adds a nice touch to the dirt cup.
to add to the "halloween" effect, we covered each cup (actually, it was just tyler) with foil that had either a foam bat or foam ghost stuck on the center of the foil. then for safe measure, i had tyler tie on some black string around each foil to make sure it's secure
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