Printable Recipe: Graveyard Cake Halloween Recipe

Halloween Graveyard Cake Recipe

This cake is a great centerpiece for any Halloween party! You can either leave it in the pan as instructed, or prepare a sheet cake-- your choice! Decorated with Halloween party snacks and candies, this cake is cute, easy to make, and seriously tasty. Make the cake up ahead of time and let the kids help decorate. Each cake is different, so make it you're own and just have fun!

Ingredients:
1 (18.25 oz.) pkg. Devil's food cake mix (or ingredients to make your own)
1 1/2 to 2 C. prepared chocolate frosting (or frosting of your choice)
1 to 1 1/2 C. Oreo cookie crumbs

For Graveyard, any Combination of:
Pepperidge Farm Milano Cookies (gravestones)
Pepperidge Farm Chessmen Cookies (gravestones)
Cake Decorator's Icing (various colors and flavors)
Candy corns and candy pumpkins
Green-tinted coconut (grass)
Spooky novelty candies (skulls, eyeballs, etc.)
Halloween Ghost Marshmallow Peeps
Homemade Halloween cookies
Chocolate covered pretzels (for fences)
Chopped nuts (for paths, etc.)
Food-safe plastic Halloween decorations

Instructions: 1. Prepare cake mix according to package directions in a 13 x 9 inch glass cake pan (or make your own). Let cool in pan.

2. Spread frosting evenly over cake.

3. Top with Oreo crumb "dirt."

4. Decorate as desired with any combination of coconut grass, cookie gravestones, nut paths, pretzel fences, etc. Some of the Chessman cookies have crosses on them, and work great for gravestones. If desired, write R.I.P. (or anything else you want) on Milano cookies with decorator's frosting before inserting in cake.

5. Add Halloween party snacks for decorations, like marshmallow peep ghosts, candy pumpkins (the peanut butter pumpkins recipe on this page works great!), and any other spooky candy you like. Add zombie cookies like these for an extra creepy graveyard touch, and decorate some of the tombstones with red gel icing "blood" to make a gory Halloween cake.