Dirt cake is a general term for several recipes that utilize Oreo brand cookies in combination with other ingredients.The name is a reference to the dark color of Oreos.Example recipe: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,176,147178-249206,00.html

Combat vehicles ITT declared as repaired and ready for action flunked inspections and had to be fixed again. Equipment to be sanitized for return to the United States was found caked with dirt. And ITT's computer database for tracking the work was rife with errors.

Make an Oreo Dirt Cake and have lots of fun with your kids.

Bathrooms are supposed to be bastions of personal hygiene and cleanliness. That's why there's nothing more depressing than a dirty one. Who wants to bath in a tub with a ring of dirt around it, or wash their face in a sink spotted with caked-on toothpaste? If there's any room you need to keep clean, it's the bathroom.

Rich Tao hurriedly brings a cake of pu'er, a fermented tea, into Floating Leaves Tea in Ballard. He unwraps it and lets owner Shiuwen Tai take a peek at the cake, which looks like a brown disk of dirt and twigs.

"Heya hup!" Deep in a muddy pit, a dozen workers wrestle with Egypt's fearsome lion goddess, struggling to raise her into the sunlight for the first time in more than 3,000 years. She is Sekhmet�"the one who is powerful"�the embodiment of the fiery eye of the sun god Ra, but now she is caked in dirt and bound by thick rope. As the workers heave her