Halloween Dirt Cups with Avocado Chocolate Pudding
Halloween Dirt Cups with Avocado Chocolate Pudding are a surprising treat to make Halloween sweet and spooky! Dairy-free and vegan-friendly!
Halloween Dirt Cups with Avocado Chocolate Pudding are a surprisingly decadent treat to make your Halloween sweet and spooky! Avocado adds creaminess to this dairy-free and vegan-friendly dark chocolate pudding! You’ll be tempted to make it all year long!
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Calavo Growers. All opinions are 100% mine.
A-BOO-cado Halloween Dirt Cups
Once October rolls around, along with the foggy mornings and chillier evenings, a spirit of fun descends upon us. For my family, we kick things off with birthdays — the first week of October in particular; we’re celebrating so many birthdays in my extended family, my son’s included.
Over the years, I have made him one of his favorite and most requested desserts to celebrate his big day: dirt cake. It’s a fun departure from the quintessential sheet cake and always a hit. And for me, I’m happy to make dirt cake since it is exceedingly easy to make in advance!
What is dirt cake? It’s essentially a trifle made with pudding swirled with a creamy whipped topping and cookie dirt made with crumbles of chocolate sandwich cookies. With Halloween just around the corner, I thought I would make dirt cake again, but with a spooky, surprising twist!
With all the decadent treats we will be enjoying on Halloween night, I’m always looking for new ways to add a little more wholesomeness in disguise. In this case, avocados are in pudding costume, lending their natural creaminess to make a delicious chocolate pudding that will surprise even the most ardent chocoholic. It’s a delightful way to make avocado chocolate pudding vegan, and with a few more accessories, it transforms into Halloween Dirt Cups!
In this installment of my partnership with Calavo, I am so excited to use their avocados in this sweet and spooky recipe. Their Haas avocados make the pudding perfectly creamy and dairy-free.
How to Make Avocado Chocolate Pudding
While a traditional pudding requires coaxing sweetened milk to thicken over the stove, the beauty of an avocado-based pudding is that it takes a quick blitz in a blender!
And because avocado is naturally thick and creamy, we need a small splash of non-dairy milk to make a thick, chocolatey pudding. Cocoa powder does wonders on its own, but I like to add a touch of melted, good-quality chocolate to make it decadent.
Place the avocados, vanilla, cocoa powder, agave nectar, oat milk, salt, and melted chocolate in a blender. Blend until smooth, periodically scraping the sides of the jar with a spatula.
For extra smooth pudding, pass mixture through a sieve into a bowl. Divide the pudding into 4 small cups, cover with plastic wrap, and chill for at least 1 hour, or overnight.
While the pudding chill, prepare the garnishes.
Place the chocolate cream cookies in a food processor and pulse until it is fully crumbled, or it resembles a dirt-like consistency. Sprinkle the “dirt” over the puddings.
Make tombstone cookies by melting dark chocolate and piping RIP on the cookies. Garnish each Halloween dirt cup with a tombstone cookie, Halloween candies (I use candy bones and pumpkins), and sprinkles, if you wish!
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Halloween Dirt Cups with Avocado Chocolate Pudding
Ingredients
For the chocolate avocado pudding:
- 2 large avocados seeded, peeled, and quartered
- 2 tsp Pure vanilla or vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder sifted
- 1/2 cup agave nectar
- 1/4 cup Oat milk or other non-dairy milk
- 1 pinch kosher salt
- 2 oz 70% dark chocolate melted
Garnish for Halloween Dirt Cups:
- 10 chocolate cream cookies such as Oreos
- 2 oz 70% dark chocolate chopped
- 4 oval sandwich cookies such as Pepperidge Farm Milano dark chocolate cookies
- Candy bones optional
- Candy corn pumpkins optional
- Halloween sprinkles optional
Instructions
Make the Avocado Chocolate Pudding
- Place the avocados, vanilla, cocoa powder, agave nectar, oat milk, salt, and melted chocolate in a blender. Blend until smooth, periodically scraping the sides of the jar with a spatula.
- For extra smooth pudding, pass mixture through a sieve into a bowl. Divide the pudding into 4 small cups, cover with plastic wrap, and chill for at least 1 hour, or overnight.
- While the pudding chill, prepare the garnishes.
Make the Cookie “Dirt”
- Place the chocolate cream cookies in a food processor and pulse until it is fully crumbled, or it resembles a dirt-like consistency.
Make the Cookie “Tombstones”
- Melt the chocolate in a small, microwave safe bowl for 30 seconds. Continue microwaving it in 10 to 15 second increments, stirring between each, until the chocolate is fully melted. Place the melted chocolate into a tiny piping bag, or create one by forming a small rectangle of parchment paper into a cone. Cut a tiny tip and pip “RIP” onto the cookies. Let the chocolate decoration harden; this will only take a couple of minutes.
Assemble the Halloween Dirt Cups
- Garnish each chilled pudding cup with a sprinkling of cookie “dirt,” tombstone, candies and sprinkles. Enjoy immediately, ore return to the refrigerator until ready to serve.
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Comments
COOKBOOK
ha love these, so much fun and love that the chocolate base is made with avo, one of my regualar super fiood ingredients, nice to have it in this recipe as a change from my regular prep, thank you!