HALLOWEEN GRAVEYARD CAKE

Halloween Graveyard Cake image

Delicious and spooky Halloween cake complete with gravestones, a dead tree, pumpkin patch, and a scary ghost!

Provided by Michele B.

Categories Desserts Cakes Cake Mix Cake Recipes

Time 2h2m

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 16

Ingredients

1 (18.25 ounce) package devil's food cake mix (such as Duncan Hines®)
1 cup water
3 large eggs
⅓ cup vegetable oil
24 fudge stick cookies
4 black licorice whips, or as needed
1 (16 ounce) container dark fudge frosting (such as Pillsbury®)
¼ cup chocolate-covered raisins
2 tablespoons toffee chips
2 tablespoons shredded coconut
4 drops green food coloring
12 candy pumpkins
3 oval butter sandwich cookies with chocolate filling (eg Pepperidge Farm Milano)
1 (.68 oz. tube) black decorating gel
¼ cup chocolate cookie crumbs
1 marshmallow ghost (such as Peeps®)

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a disposable foil pan with a domed plastic lid.
Beat cake mix with water, eggs, and oil in a large bowl using an electric mixer until no dry spots remain. Increase speed to medium; blend well. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 32 to 36 minutes. Let cool completely, at least 30 minutes.
Frost the cooled cake with frosting.
Push fudge sticks upright about 1/2-inch apart into 3 outer edges of the cake to represent fence posts. Place additional fudge sticks about 1/2-inch apart in a diagonal line across the cake starting at the fourth corner to create a small area outside the graveyard. Weave licorice whips through the fence posts for crosspieces. Connect 2 parallel sticks with a third diagonal one and attach with frosting to make a gate.
Make a winding path from the gate to the far edge of the cake with 2 parallel lines of chocolate covered raisins as boulders. Fill the path with toffee chip for rocks. Assemble a licorice whip tree; insert in the middle of the path in the far corner of the graveyard.
Mix coconut with green food coloring in a small bowl until thoroughly dyed. Arrange outside the gate into a lawn. Pile a mound of candy pumpkins in 1 corner of the graveyard and a few on the grass.
Write spooky phrases on the upper thirds of the oval cookies with black decorator gel icing such as 'RIP" with a skull and crossbones, "Yul B. Next," or "Here Lies ---." Stick cookie gravestones carefully into the cake. Scatter cookie crumbs all over the graveyard to represent dirt; stack any extra crumbs into a dirt pile in front of a gravestone. Place a marshmallow ghost at the fence, peeking out from between two posts.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 647.2 calories, Carbohydrate 91.4 g, Cholesterol 58.4 mg, Fat 28.6 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 6.6 g, SaturatedFat 9.9 g, Sodium 536.3 mg, Sugar 63.8 g