Halloween Graveyard Cake recipe
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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®)
Nutrition Info
- 647.2 caloriescarbohydrate: 91.4 gcholesterol: 58.4 mgfat: 28.6 gfiber: 0.7 gprotein: 6.6 gsaturatedFat: 9.9 gservingSize: -sodium: 536.3 mgsugar: 63.8 gtransFat: : -unsaturatedFat: : -
Directions Halloween Graveyard Cake
Directions
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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.