Try the Grey Stuff--It's Delicious!

Last night, Jim and I tried the grey stuff.  Making it, that is!  We had tasted it at Be Our Guest Restaurant in Disney World on "The Master's Cupcake" (a chocolate cupcake with the grey stuff on top and inside) and were in love.  We found the recipe from Doctor Disney, and used the Hollywood Studios 25th Anniversary Cupcake (from the previous post) as the cake.

I don't know... None of the food on Lumiere's platter looks that appetizing...  I'm glad the grey stuff turned out to be a dessert!

Our first taste of The Grey Stuff!

What makes it "grey" (I spell it "gray" so this is hard for me) is the Oreo component.

Doctor Disney's recipe calls for 15 Oreos put through the food processor (this is the main reason I have a food processor.  Oreo balls are some of the best tasting sweets on the planet, and you need Oreos to be superfine for them!  I was making healthy and "green" smoothies in this, too, but the main reason is always Oreos).

Looking super fine, Oreos!

In addition to Oreos, the recipe calls for vanilla and chocolate pudding mix, Cool Whip, and milk.  

After the pudding becomes pudding, you mix in the Oreos:

Already looking grey and delicious!  Jim "folded in" the tub of Cool Whip:

It looks very white under the lights, but in a close-up it looks more brown:

Even more so when you add in the 3 tablespoons of chocolate pudding mix.  In fact, I think it tasted more like the real grey stuff without the extra chocolate, but it's still delicious!

I skipped the photos of the cupcake-baking process because that was my last post (and this was our second time making them since), so here are the cupcakes, and I injected them with the grey stuff as they do in The Master's Cupcake:

When it came time to frost them, I ran into some trouble.  I couldn't find any of the bigger tips or couplers for the icing gun, and it started coming out all lumpy.  Jim interrupted my frustration by making this Mickey:

It helped me calm down a little.

Then I switched to a new tip that didn't fit perfectly but it worked like a charm!

Of course all the pretty silver wrappers were the ones that had the gloppy ugly frosting on them, so just ignore the oily Halloween wrappers here...

I do want to try them next time without chocolate pudding.  I think they look more like the real deal without.  But they are just so delicious...

And I did have edible pearl sprinkles like they use in Disney, but mine threaten to break teeth, unlike the magical soft ones at Be Our Guest.  Maybe I'll find those one day!  If you can't get enough of the grey stuff, check out this adorable necklace from Spiffing Jewelry that I found on my Google image search while looking for the Lumiere picture at the beginning of my post!