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Halloween Graveyard Cake

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Recipe Summary Halloween Graveyard Cake

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

Ingredients | Pumpk8N Patch

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®)

Directions

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.

The directions for making cake are based on the particular brand mentioned. Follow instructions on box if using a different brand.

Info | Pumpk8N Patch

prep: 1 hr cook: 32 mins additional: 30 mins total: 2 hrs 2 mins Servings: 12 Yield: 1 cake

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