Edible Halloween Grave Yard Cake

This cake is perfect for a Halloween party for adults or kids. It makes a great centerpiece or a buffet as well. Making the Halloween Graveyard Cake should take you about 30 minutes to 1 hour after your cake has baked and cooled. Include the kids in on this fun and edible craft project. They will have a great time adding the realistic touches to the graveyard. They'll even have fun gobbling up this great Halloween cake!

Here are the ingredients you need to make a graveyard cake:

Box Brownie or Chocolate Cake mix
Crushed Oreos (3 Cups)
Graham Crackers
Chocolate Icing
White Icing
Candy Pumpkins
Tube of Black Writing Icing
Black Food Coloring
Paring Knife
Green Icing
Piping bag/ Zip Loc Bags
Cool Whip

To start making your Halloween Graveyard cake you need to do a little preparation. After preparation is over I will give assembling instructions.

First, bake you brownie or cake in a 9" X 13" pan. Let it cool. Flip it over onto a serving platter. If you don't have a cute serving platter suitable for Halloween you can flip you cake over on a cutting board wrapped with aluminum foil. I like to make sure that the serving platter is a few inches larger than the brownie or cake so that the edible crafts can spill over past the edges of the "graveyard."

To make the gravestones lay a graham cracker on a microwave able plate. Microwave for about 20 second (this can vary depending on the microwave). Use your paring knife to cut out the grave stone shape. The microwave simply softens the graham cracker, making it easy to cut. Let your grave stone harden and cool off.

Mix a few drops of black food coloring into one cup of white icing. You want to make a cement gray color. Dip your gravestones in the icing. Use a butter knife to smooth it over the stones. Lay these out to dry on a piece of wax paper.

Use the tube of black gel writing icing to write words like "R.I.P." and even the names of your guest on the head stones.

Once your Halloween cake has cool slather the entire thing with chocolate icing. Don't worry about making it perfectly flat, because the lumpier the better.

Now, place the gravestones around on your cake. Use your ground up or crushed Oreo cookies to sprinkle in front of the gravestones. This will look like mound of freshly dug dirt.

Now you can start adding a lot of Halloween details to your graveyard cake. Use candy pumpkins place around the graveyard for a great outdoor touch. Green icing can be piped on with a piping bag or a zip loc bag to look like wilting grass. You could also microwave some more graham crackers and cit out a picket fence to frame out the graveyard. The more your fence cracks and falls apart the better.

You can also add Halloween ghosts to your graveyard cake in number of different ways. First, you could fill a Ziploc bag with cool whip and pipe three dollops out onto your cake. Make the first dollop the biggest, on top of that a medium dollop, and finally a smaller head type dollop. Use your black writing icing to make eyes. Another option would be to make you Halloween ghosts with white icing. Finally, you could also make some great ghosts for your graveyard out of the graham crackers. Microwave you graham cracker again and cut out ghost shapes. Dip in the white icing and spread it out smooth with a knife. Add eyes again with the black writing icing.

The sky is the limit with all of the details you can add to this graveyard cake. Look for Halloween candy in realistic shapes like bats, pumpkins, and even eyeballs to add realistic touches! I made this cake for a birthday one year and used an over the hill tombstone looking candle, it worked great!