An easy Halloween treat full of sweet flavor and ready in only 30 minutes! Make Easy Halloween Pudding Cups for your little ghouls and goblins.
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The Halloween costumes are ready, your spooky decorations are up, and your Halloween holiday is about to begin! But wait—what about a sweet, Halloween dessert??
Keep it simple and fun, and make up a batch of Easy Halloween Pudding Cups. They're individual Halloween desserts that have stripes of ghastly green, spooky brown, and dirt made from cookie crumbs!
Dig in, and see how sweet and tasty the no-cook, spooky Halloween-themed pudding cups are, thanks to layers of pudding, cookies, and cream.
Try other spooky Halloween treats too, like these Halloween Ghost Cookies with Chocolate Chips, Halloween Witches Hats With Ice Cream Cones, or Candy-Covered Apples!
Why you'll love these treats
This is one of the easiest Halloween desserts to put together ever. Chocolate instant pudding and vanilla instant pudding take only seven minutes to come together. Add in crushed Oreos and whipped cream, and you'll be serving these up in no time.
Decoration ideas for your Halloween Pudding Cups
Decorating the Halloween pudding desserts is where you get to be really creative. I used purple and black sprinkles and fun Halloween toothpicks on my pudding cups.
Here are more pudding cup decoration ideas:
- Decorate the clear plastic pudding cups using Sharpie markers or stickers.
- Use oblong cookies like Milanos to make gravestones. Use black icing to add writing to the stones like "R.I.P., then sink them into the cups to make graveyard pudding cups.
- Add gummy worms to the top or between the layers to make worm and dirt pudding cups.
- Make ghost pudding cups by making ghosts with piped frosting or white fondant.
- Halloween Peeps are cute with these cups! Peep pumpkins, ghosts, or Frankensteins.
- Add simple decor like sprinkles, candy eyeballs, and Halloween-color candies.
Best of all, this is the PERFECT treat to make with kids. They can help make the pudding cups, and will likely LOVE crushing the Oreos. And let them help choose the decorations for the cups.
🔪 How to Make Easy Halloween Pudding Cups
Ingredients:
- Instant Vanilla Pudding
- Instant Chocolate Pudding
- Milk
- Green food coloring
- Oreo cookies
- Whipped Cream
- Halloween decor and candies (see above for ideas!)
Step 1: Make the pudding
Whisk together the vanilla pudding mix and green food coloring with cold milk. Then, whisk the chocolate pudding mix together with more cold milk. Hold the pudding aside.
Step 2: Crush those Oreos. CRUSH THEM!
Pile the cookies into a bowl and crush them with a potato masher or the bottom of a sturdy glass. Continue crushing until they become coarse crumbs.
Step 3: Create the pudding cup layers
Have four clear plastic cups ready. Layer chocolate pudding in the bottoms, followed by a layer of green pudding. Next, add a layer of crushed Oreos to the cups. Finally, layer in more green pudding.
Step 4: Top with whipped cream and sprinkles
Spray some whipped cream on the top of each dish just before serving. Sprinkle on the sprinkles, and dig in!
FAQs
No! This is a no-cook recipe because it calls for instant pudding mixes. The pudding cups are quick to assemble with instant pudding.
Yes! You can layer the desserts up to 1 day in advance. Just leave off the whipped cream, sprinkles, or other decorations until you're ready to serve them.
Tips:
- I like the French vanilla and chocolate fudge flavors of pudding for these cups, but regular vanilla and chocolate will also work.
- The recipe makes four large Halloween Pudding Cups. To make smaller servings, use eight 5-ounce clear plastic cups, and divide the puddings and cookie crumbs into the cups.
Happy October and Happy Halloween!
The recipe to make these Easy Halloween Pudding Cups is below! Here are more Halloween party treats, too:
💬 Leave a comment below, how did you like these treats?
Easy Halloween Pudding Cups
Equipment
- 4 10-ounce clear plastic cups or glass serving dishes
Ingredients
- 3.4 ounces (1 box) instant French vanilla or vanilla pudding mix
- Green food coloring
- 4 cups cold milk, 2% or whole — divided
- 3.4 ounces (1 box) instant chocolate fudge or chocolate pudding mix
- 8 Oreo cookies
- 2 cups spray whipped cream topping
- Optional: purple, black, orange, or green sprinkles. See the notes below for more decor ideas.
Instructions
Make the puddings:
- Empty the instant French vanilla or vanilla pudding mix into a medium bowl, and add 2 cups of cold milk.
- Whisk the pudding and milk for two minutes. Add in green food coloring drops to make a good, ghastly shade of Halloween green. Stir the coloring through the pudding. Hold this aside.
- Empty the chocolate fudge or chocolate pudding mix into another medium bowl, and add in the remaining milk.
- Whisk the pudding and milk together for two minutes. Hold the pudding aside.
Crush the Oreos:
- Place the Oreo cookies into a bowl and crush them with a potato masher or the bottom of a sturdy cup. Crush them until they become coarse crumbs.
Assemble the layers:
- Set out the plastic cups or serving dishes.
- Use a spoon to divide the chocolate pudding between the cups: about ½ cup of pudding into each cup. Do your best not to let the pudding hit the sides of the cup as you spoon it in! It'll make the layers look tidier.
- Use a spoon to spoon ¼ cup of the green vanilla pudding on top of the chocolate layer. Do this in every cup.
- Divide the crushed Oreos between the 4 cups, spooning the crushed cookies over the green vanilla pudding in an even layer.
- Spoon ¼ cup of green vanilla pudding over the cookie layer - do this in every cup.
- At this point if you're not serving the pudding cups immediately, cover each cup with a little plastic wrap and pop them in the fridge until you're ready to serve them.
Add the whipped cream and sprinkles:
- Spray whipped cream on the top of each cup of layered pudding. Add the sprinkles or other decorative candies over the top of the whipped cream. Serve the parfaits immediately!
Note:
- The recipe makes four large Halloween Pudding Cups. To make smaller servings, use eight 5-ounce clear plastic cups, and divide the puddings and cookie crumbs into the cups.
Notes
FAQs
Does the pudding need to be cooked? No! This is a no-cook recipe because it calls for instant pudding mixes. The pudding cups are quick to assemble with instant pudding. Can Halloween Pudding Cups be made ahead of time? Yes! You can layer the desserts up to 1 day in advance. Just leave off the whipped cream, sprinkles, or other decorations until you're ready to serve them.Tips:
- I like the French vanilla and chocolate fudge flavors of pudding for these parfaits, but regular vanilla and chocolate will also work.
- The recipe makes four large Halloween Pudding Cups. To make smaller servings, use eight 5-ounce clear plastic cups, and divide the puddings and cookie crumbs into the cups.
Heidi
These are so cute, Nancy! I love how easy they are too!
Nancy Mock
Hi Heidi! Thank you - it's nice to have a themed treat that comes together fast!