Spooktacular Halloween Graveyard Cake
photo by PalatablePastime
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
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1 decorated cake
- Serves:
- 8-12
ingredients
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For the Cake
- 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package cake mix (I used Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Devil's Food)
- 1 1⁄3 cups water
- 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
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To Decorate
- 10 ounces nabisco Oreo cookies, crushed (may use gingersnap crumbs if it goes with your cake)
- 6 -10 pepperidge farm milano cookies (or suitable oval shaped butter cookies)
- 1 1⁄2 - 2 cups prepared vanilla frosting (or other suitable flavor)
- 1 -4 package cake decorating gel (green, black, orange or brown, etc, as needed)
- 1 cup candy corn (or pumpkin-shaped candy)
- 1⁄4 cup harvest colored sprinkles or 1/4 cup colored crystal sugar (orange, green, yellow, etc)
- 6 -12 laboratory decorative candies (chocolate candy foil-wrapped like eyeballs, ears, lips, body parts, etc) (optional)
- 4 -6 ghost-shaped peeps marshmallows (may also use cats or pumpkins)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Mix together cake mix, water, oil, and eggs according to package directions.
- If your package requires different ingredients to make cake, follow those instructions instead.
- Grease and flour a glass 13x9-inch cake pan.
- If you use a dark or coated pan, do your baking at 325°F.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in a preheated oven for approx 35 minutes (38-40 minutes for dark or coated pans) or until cake is done.
- Allow cake to cool in the pan.
- Spread frosting evenly on cooled cake.
- Sprinkle frosting with crumbled cookies (oreos or whatever you are using).
- Using gel frostings, write sayings on 1/2 of the milano cookies (some sayings might be"Justin Tyme","Yul B Next","RIP","M T Tomb","Will B Back","Barry M Deep", etc).
- Press 1/2 of cookie down into cake and icing to resemble a standing tombstone.
- Arrange ghost marshmallows in a standing position on top of cake.
- Scatter candies and/or sprinkles or sugars on cake to garnish.
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Reviews
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This was a great fun cake to make with the kids. They made their own decorations for the most part and got creative with it. We had a few pumpkinhead ghosts and lots of sour worms. I added some mini chocolate chips to the cake itself, so when they cut it, the cake looked gooey. Very cool idea. Made and reviewed for PRMR Tag. Thanks :)
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What a great cake! I used "funfetti" cake mix, vanilla frosting and double chocolate oreos. I used sugar free milanos for the gravestones because they are flatter. I decorated it with neon gummi worms, candy corn and marshmallow ghosts and pumpkins. It was a big hit, and it tasted great too! Thanks!
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This was really fun to make - a real kid pleaser. Unfortunately, I had difficulty finding many of the decorative ingredients where I live, but part of what makes this recipe so great is it is open to your imagination. I substituted graham crackers to use for tombstones, and used orange and black colored gummy worms, and eyeball gumballs. I couldn't find the ghosts, so the kids and I created our own out of large marshmallows. The kids had a great time, and the end result was a really cool looking Halloween cake. Thanks for the recipe and the idea - I had never heard of this before, and I think it will become a new family tradition.
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PalatablePastime
Cincinnati
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