

I use Oreo cookie crumbs. I used to be able to buy it in a box, but not anymore, so I now buy the Oreo cookie pie crust and put it in a ziplock to crumble and then use it. Hope this helps!

Crushed Oreo wafers, (or other chocolate cookies). Can't remember if that is exactly what they used on Cake Boss.


that's why I use the Oreo pie crust! lol
no cream!




Oreo's was the first thing that popped into my head before reading comments. I'll have to remember pie crust instead of cookies. Thanks!


I use Oreo cookies also for dark dirt/soil and use Vanilla Wafers for light dirt/soil.
How much dirt do you need?
If you don't need much, then you could do this ....
Separate all the cookies from the filling and place the filling in a mixing bowl. Crumble up 8 cookie to a fine mixture and then set aside. Crumble the rest of the cookies to a fine mixture and then put them in the mixing bowl along with the cookie filling. Now, add a block of cream cheese to the mixing bowl and beat the three ingredients together -- it should now resemble firm cookie dough.
Use a small cookie scoop (or spoon) to scoop out a round ball of the mixture and place in the reserved cookie crumbs. Roll the cookie mixture around to completely cover. Set the finished mixture on a plate. When you have finished rolling out all the mixture put them in the frig for an hour or so - then enjoy.
If you would like to fancy them up a bit, what I do is melt some of the colored candy melts (Wiltons) and then drizzle a design over top. They make a wonderful treat to take to work.
Tammy

I used Oreos on a garden cake I did recently. I scraped the middle off and crunched them up. Some people like the cream in because it looks like the white stuff in regular potting soil...food for thought

I just did some soil on a cake last night and I just used some chocolate cake crumbs. Although they were quite light compared to oreo cookies, but I think it looks ok. I only needed to do a tiny bit though, like less than a cookie worth. If I needed to do a lot then I might have experimented a bit more




They sell Oreo cookie pieces that have no filling - I buy mine at Cash & Carry. It's not a huge bag either, I think it probably has 2 regular packages worth of just the chocolate wafers already crushed up. Personally my cake crumbs always taste stale so I was using oreo for dirt.
But... for this Halloween I'm doing something different for dirt on my Halloween cupcakes - I'm going to overbake a pan of brownies, let them cool then crumble them up. My tester batch was amazingly good and tastes way better then cake crumbs and Oreo. I mean, who doesn't love the crunchy bits of brownies??? It's the best part! Nom nom.


I used leftover chocolate cake from carving my flowerpot, combined with some buttercream icing (kind of like how you make cake balls). Then I just added some black food coloring gel til I got the desired color. You can view the flowerpot cake in my pics. The flowers are amature night, but everything else looks great!

I use Milo , or iced tea powder. the iced tea stuff looks more like gravel.



I had a pig cake that I did last year and I needed to make the base of the cake look like dirt, so I put butter cream on the base of the board and used left over chocolate cake crumbs as the dirt.
If you want to take a look: http://www.valerieelizabethconfections.com/birthday-cakes/pig-cake/ Good luck!!

I've used brown sugar (something chunky like demerara) and then put it in a freezer bag and added some brown powder colouring (or cocoa powder or even liquid colouring although it can go clumpy which is good if you want that look) and if you shake it around it soon turns much darker, for a recent cake I did that and then added grated chocolate for a mixture of textures and it worked really well and smelt lovely too.
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