Recipe: Perfect graveyard halloween cake

graveyard halloween cake. You can use any chocolate cake or brownie recipe for this graveyard cake and it is a guaranteed hit for your halloween party or while kids are getting ready to trick or treat. If you like you can add gummy worms as well. This Halloween dessert is a little spooky, a little silly, and a lot delicious!

Or give my favorite chocolate eclair cake recipe a try instead! Kids love using pumpkin candies and candy corn for a "cute" graveyard look, but if you prefer a spookier one, decorate the cake with chocolate spiders and goblins. This Graveyard Cake is made with a boxed chocolate cake mix, delicious homemade chocolate buttercream frosting, and spooky and fun DIY cake decorations like tombstone cookies, marshmallow ghosts, Oreo dirt, pretzel bones, and a chocolate stick fence. You can cook graveyard halloween cake using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of graveyard halloween cake

1. It's of of cake mix.
2. It's of of white icing.
3. You need of chovolate graham crackers.
4. It's of candy corn.
5. It's of candy pumpkins.
6. Prepare of ghost peeps.
7. It's of pretzel sticks.
8. You need of food coloring.
9. It's of gummy worms (optional).
10. Prepare of oreos.
11. It's of milano cookies.
12. It's of gel icing in small tubes.

This is a great cake, perfect for Halloween parties, that is a take-off of the stand-by graveyard pudding. I noticed pudding is less popular than cake, and of course, cake is more suited for parties, especially those with kids. You can use your choice of cake flavor, but pay attention to the cookie crumbs you use in that case so they are compatible flavors. Or try these recipes: Best-Ever Chocolate Cake and frosting from Better Homes and Gardens.

graveyard halloween cake instructions

1. follow directions on boxed cake mix.
2. use a 13 x 9 cake pan.
3. let cake cool.
4. mix green food colloring with white icing then add required amnts. to make brown until you get an olive green color.
5. cover cake in icing.
6. stick pretzel sticks next to eachother around the entire perimiter of the cake.
7. crush oreos and chocolate graham crackers together in a bowl and sprinkle on cake to make a walkway. save some on side.
8. use cake writing tools to write what you want on milano cookies and stick them in the cake like tombstones..
9. use remaining cracker and cookie bits to make a few graves look freshly dug.
10. decorate cake with ghosts pumpkins candy corn worms and whatever else you can come up with to make your own unique graveyard.

Or start with a chocolate cake mix and pre-made icing. (I won't tell!) Halloween is the best holiday to play with your food! I used a roasting tin as to achieve a sensible effect with the graves the cake needed to be quite deep. This Graveyard Halloween Cake would also be a perfect rainy day activity for the kids, a pre or post pumpkin carving activity or even a great excuse to have family & friends over for a little wine & crafting session. I even like the idea of having a little party, slicing the cake into sections & seeing who can craft the spookiest graveyard. See more ideas about Graveyard cake, Halloween cakes, Halloween treats.