Sand Pudding is the cutest no bake dessert! Layers of pudding and cookie crumble sand and topped with gummy worms. Perfect for a summer party!
We also have Dirt and Worms Pudding Cups and Beach Bear Pudding Cups!
This Sand Pudding is one of my favorite cutesy desserts. You know, something that’s always a hit with the kids. It’s perfect for birthday parties or school parties or just an afterschool snack if you have a bunch of kiddos you need to impress.
It’s a delicious no bake dessert that everyone loves because who doesn’t love pudding, cookies, and gummy worms?!
It starts with a “sand” made from Nilla Wafer cookies and Oreos. And the pudding is a light and fluffy vanilla pudding made with cream cheese, pudding mix, and Cool Whip.
It all gets layered together with the “sand” on top. Then you can add cute little gummy worms.
Ingredients
- Nilla Wafers – this is going to create the sand part of the sand pudding.
- Oreos – you just need a few of these just to add some dark specks to your “sand.”
- Cream cheese – this is going into the pudding mixture and gives it almost a cheesecake taste.
- Butter – this will add a great buttery flavor to the pudding mixture.
- Powdered sugar – make sure it’s powdered and not granulated. The powdered really melts into liquids a lot better.
- Vanilla pudding mix – you could always use a different light colored pudding, like cheesecake or even lemon.
- Milk – use dairy or nondairy, whatever your preference is.
- Cool Whip – make sure to thaw in the fridge overnight before beginning your recipe.
How To Make Sand Pudding
- Make sand mixture. Combine Nilla Wafers and Oreo in a food processor and pulse until the mixture resembles sand.
- Make cream cheese mixture. Beat together cream cheese, butter, and powdered sugar.
- Make pudding. Mix together vanilla pudding mix and milk.
- Combine. Add pudding to the cream cheese mixture.
- Add Cool Whip. Gently fold in Cool Whip.
- Assemble. Layer “sand” and pudding mixture into serving dishes.
- Top. Top with gummy creatures.
More No Bake Desserts
- No Bake Million Dollar Pie Bars
- Peanut Butter S’mores Dip
- No Bake Peanut Butter Pie
- Caramel Corn Treats
- Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball
- No Bake Snickers Pie
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Sand Pudding
Sand Pudding is the cutest no bake dessert! Layers of pudding and cookie crumble sand and topped with gummy worms. Perfect for a summer party!
Ingredients
- 1 11 ounce box Nilla Wafers
- 2 Oreos
- 1 8 ounce block cream cheese
- ¼ cup butter
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 2 3.4 ounce boxes vanilla pudding mix
- 2 ¾ cups milk
- 12 ounces Cool Whip
Instructions
- Put Nilla Wafers and Oreos together in a food processor. Pulse until the mixture resembles sand. Set aside.
- Beat together cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy. Slowly add powdered sugar and beat until combined.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together vanilla pudding mix and milk. Slowly add this mixture to the cream cheese mixture and beat until combined. Gently fold in Cool Whip.
- Layer into serving dish of choice (it's really cute in buckets!) starting and ending with the "sand" mixture.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 423Total Fat: 24gSaturated Fat: 15gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 34mgSodium: 422mgCarbohydrates: 49gFiber: 0gSugar: 35gProtein: 5g
Marie @ Not Enough Cinnamon.com says
I don’t know what your blog looked like before but I sure love this new design!! I’m so glad I discovered your blog, everything looks delicious and easy to make – perfect in my book! :)
Nutmeg Nanny says
I’m reporting back to say I googled sand fleas. So gross.
amanda says
hahaha! Definitely one of the most disgusting things on the planet. Yuck.
Nutmeg Nanny says
I’m really happy you went with the worms over sand fleas. I wonder if they make gummy sand fleas….lets hope not. I love this twist on dirt pudding. It’s the perfect dessert for a beach themed birthday party!
Katrina @ In Katrina's Kitchen says
Ahhhhh! Your new site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I adore it!!!! Too many exclamation points, but I can’t help it! Your trip looked awesome- such special memories for your kiddos. And I totally have mini plastic sand buckets sitting on my counter right now to make this pudding but I kind of suck at blogging in the summer. My family makes this pudding every summer!
Kat says
These are adorable!
Chelsea says
Glad you are back Amanda! And I am seriously obsessed with your design!! Love everything wooden spoons kitchen does and they sure did a great job with yours. I love the little sprinkles everywhere and the font of your logo is way cute! This is the perfect snack or dessert for summer and such a great twist on the oreo chocolate dirt! Vanilla wafers are so good!
Lauren at Keep It Sweet says
I love this fun twist on the original dirt pudding!