Chocolate Dirt Pie Recipe

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This Chocolate Dirt Pie recipe is made with thick pie crust, an easy homemade chocolate pudding center, and lots of crushed OREOS on top! Gummy worms optional!

Dirt Pie

This may be my diet talking, but this was the best chocolate dirt pie I’ve ever eaten.

If you’ve never heard of a Chocolate Dirt Pie, let me enlighten you: it’s a homemade thick pie shell (the older I get, the thicker I roll it) filled with a simple but super tasty and decadent chocolate pudding and topped with crushed OREOS, garnished with gummy worms, as desired. Think of those pudding cups that you’d make for kids’ birthdays or class treats. It’s like that, only way way better because it’s in a pie shell and completely homemade…minus the OREOS of course.

This pie idea was purely Blake’s idea for his birthday. He originally wanted the exact cake I made last year, but after reminding him of that fact, he changed his tune and started talking about chocolate dirt pie…like a pie covered in the dirt from the Monster Truck Cake. So, as a pie enthusiast and girl on her diet waiting for the right opportunity to splurge, I dove headfirst into this recipe never to rethink my son’s ideas again.

YOU GUYS. This pie is decadent. This pie is eerily easy to make. This pie is so amazingly chocolatey! And this pie cuts like a dream. The one thing I hate about pudding pies is how messy they look when you slice them (albeit still yummy) so I threw in a little extra cornstarch to ensure I got lovely slices and that did the trick.

Dirt Pie Recipe
Nice thick crust, nice thick filling. Come to mama.
A few tips for you:

I’d highly HIGHLY recommend making my pie crust to get the full heavenly + homemade effect.

Start with all your dry filling ingredients in a cold pot off the heat first! Then whisk in the cold milk until combined, using a spatula to reach the corners. Bring to a boil on the heat and then stir in the vanilla, butter, and chocolate off the heat again.

Once you pour the hot filling into your shell, cover it directly with plastic wrap and refrigerate to set. The filling is already pretty thick, to begin with, so this shouldn’t be a problem.

Finish with crushed OREOS and any other toppings you see fit. We did several types of candy for Blake, though I took all those off because I just wanted the actual pie.

This will last up to a week in the fridge, though, I doubt you’ll be able to have it in there just taunting you that long.

Have I mentioned it’s irresistible? So irresistible that Gordon has requested the same dessert for his birthday….in July.

My husband is the chocoholic in the family and has passed those onto our next generation.

ANYWAYS, this is a fabulous dessert that is nearly fool-proof. I’m positive you’ll love it and anyone you feed it to will love it too.

Printable recipe below. Have a great day, friends!

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5 from 3 votes

Chocolate Dirt Pie Recipe

This Chocolate Dirt Pie recipe is made with thick pie crust, an easy homemade chocolate pudding center and lots of crushed OREOS on top! Gummy worms optional!
servings 8 servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 8 hours 15 minutes

Ingredients

Instructions

  • In large pot off the heat, measure sugar, cocoa powder, corn starch, and salt. Whisk together to combine. Slowly whisk in cold milk, using a spatula where necessary to reach the corners, until all the milk is added.
  • Place the pot over medium-high heat and whisk continuously until mixture thickens and just starts to boil. Remove from heat immediately and stir in vanilla, butter and chocolate chips. Stir until chocolate has melted completely and the mixture is smooth. 
  • Pour into baked pie shell, smooth the top and cover the top with plastic wrap directly so the filling is touching the plastic. Refrigerate 6-8 hours or overnight.
  • Pie will be ready once plastic wrap removes cleanly off of filling. Spread crushed OREOS over the top of the pie with any additional candy decorations. Serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 432kcal | Carbohydrates: 60g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 238mg | Potassium: 305mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 35g | Vitamin A: 170IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 111mg | Iron: 2.5mg
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Chocolate Dirt Pie
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  1. Deborah

    I mixed the dry ingredients with the milk and began cooking it as any pudding, stirring the entire time – before it came to a boil, large clumps began to form. I took the pot off of the heat and smoothed out the lumps then put it back on a lower heat but more and more clumps began to form. It did not come to a boil. Many small lumps are present. Am wondering if some of the basic ingredients are off. I cook with le Crueset pots which distribute heat evenly.

    1. Lauren

      Hi Linda, I’m not a diabetic blog, so lots of my recipes contain sugar. You might have better luck finding a diabetic friendly blog or cookbook.

  2. Elizabeth Sant

    5 stars
    I made this pie this past week and it did not disappoint! I did not try making a pie crust, though, since my friend who was visiting, enjoys cookie crusts more…so we made an oreo crust in addition to the oreo crumbs on top and somehow it wasn’t too much chocolate! The chocolate filling was divine!! And it hardened beautifully. I did not have 6 hours to cool it, so I took the chill off in the fridge and then put it in the freezer for about an hour, and that was enough. We had to try it! Still tasted great the next day as well. I served it with gummy worms on top and a dollop of whipped cream on the side. It was a HUGE hit! I am interested to try it with the regular crust sometime as well. But it was super!

  3. Lauren gloger

    5 stars
    I made his for my dads birthday dessert. Huge hit! I skipped the Oreos and topped w tons of whipped cream. So good. I even made the filling again and put into popsicle molds for my kids:)

  4. LT

    Homemade chocolate pie with WHIPPED CREAM is the ultimate dessert. Just make sure your fridge is cold enough so that the pie stabilizes — I had a mess of a chocolate pie at Thanksgiving!

  5. Karen

    Oh heavenly days… I’m not a pie maker but this is most definitely on my list of things to make! Swoon. Or drool? Probably both.

  6. christopher kates

    5 stars
    This was really easy to make. I had tried this and really came out well than i actually expected. I haven’t had any idea that my first try would be that perfect. It took me little time to prepare this and the result was awesome too. Actually cakes are my favorite things. I prefer to have them when I work. No matter how sweet it is I can manage to eat it as much as I can. My loves towards cakes are just incredible I can say.

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