These No Bake Boo Halloween Dessert Cups are fun and easy to make in individual cups, with layers of pudding, cake, whipped cream, ghost peeps, and bloody bone candies! This easy Halloween dessert is ideal for kids and perfect for Halloween parties and potlucks.

6 Boo! Halloween Dessert Cups on black surface with candy bloody bones strewn around

Popular during the Halloween season, these Halloween Boo cups are great for any age. They were inspired by my Jack o'lantern Cupcakes and pair perfectly with my Melting Witch Halloween Punch (non-alcoholic).

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🥘Ingredients
🔪How to Make Halloween Boo Cups
📖Variations & Substitutions
🌡️Storage
👪 Serving Size
Top tips
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🥘Ingredients

You'll need a few simple ingredients for these fun Halloween dirt cups:

Chocolate pound or loaf cake store-bought or home-made
Instant chocolate pudding- you can buy the box pudding powder and make it or buy the pudding snack packs (premade)
Whipping cream (heavy cream)- make sure it's 33%-35%
Ghost peeps (they come 6 per box )
Green food coloring (affiliate link) I use Wilton Kelly green icing color
Candy bloody bones - you can find these in craft stores like Michael's or Amazone

🔪How to Make Halloween Boo Cups

Prep:

Prepare pudding as per box directions (if using instant). If you are using pudding snack packs, skip this step.
Prepare cake if using box mix or homemade cake
Prepare whipped cream (if using homemade) and add green food coloring

clear plastic cup with broken-up chocolate cake in the bottom of it

Add broken-up cake to the bottom of all 12 cups.

Add a layer of chocolate pudding to each cup.

another layer of cake added to cup (on top of pudding)

Add another layer of cake

final layer of pudding added on top of second layer of cake

Then another (final) layer of pudding

layer of green whipped cream added on top of final pudding layer

Add some green whipped cream

2 ghost peeps , one with a scarier face, and one regular one, with an edible marker in the background

Draw a scary ghost (ghoul) face

ghost peep placed in middle of cup with a little cake crumbs scattered and bloody bone candies placed in cup

Place Ghost Peeps in the middle, sprinkle a little crumbled cake around to look like dirt and add some bloody bone candies.

Hint: Dig a little hole to push the ghost peep into, but don't push too far down or it will cover the mouth

📖Variations & Substitutions

Cake- you can use a store-bought cake from the bakery at your local grocery store, whip up a cake mix or use any homemade chocolate cake: Old Fashioned Sour Cream Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake, or Chocolate Genoise Sponge Cake .
Cake crumbs - you can use Oreo crumbs for the "dirt" on top of the green whipped cream, instead of cake
Pudding- you can use vanilla pudding, make your own chocolate pudding or chocolate mousse instead of instant pudding. You can also use pudding cups (snack packs) , so you don't actually have to make the pudding.
Whipped cream- you can use regular whipped cream, Cool Whip or use green colored frosting
Add-ins - you can add in gummy worms, cookie tombstones, candy pumpkins or Halloween sprinkles

🌡️Storage

These dirt pudding cups can be made ahead and stored in an airtight container for up to 3 days. If only storing overnight, you can simply cover them in plastic wrap.

👪 Serving Size

This Halloween pudding cups recipe makes 12 servings. However, you can half, double or triple the recipe by clicking on the serving number and selecting the number of servings you'd like. The ingredient quantities will automatically adjust. If you use a smaller cup, you can get more servings.

Top tips

*If you can't find premade chocolate loaf cakes in the bakery section of your grocery store, and don't feel like making a box mix or a cake from scratch, grab a Deep and Delicious McCains Chocolate Cake from the freezer section. You can either scrape off the frosting or keep it on (frosting is always welcome in these dessert cups! )

You will need 10 oz clear plastic cups and an edible black marker for this easy dessert. I prefer to use Americolor edible black markers because I think they are better quality. Alternatively, you can use a smaller cup.

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So if you're looking for simple graveyard pudding cups, give this recipe a try at your next Halloween party!

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