Graveyard Mini Dirt Cakes
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This recipe for easy Graveyard Mini Dirt Cakes are the perfect treats when you want to provide a fun, spooky, and delicious way to celebrate Halloween. These tasty treats are as much fun to make as they are to devour!
More Halloween dessert fun? You’ll die for these Halloween Oreo Pops, this Halloween Graveyard Dirt Cake, 20 Spooktacular Halloween Desserts and these 50 Spooky Fun Halloween Cookies!
Why We Love How Easy These Graveyard Mini Dirt Cakes Are To Make
These mini dirt cakes are super easy to make, using shortcuts with your favorite boxed cake mix and your favorite frosting. Half the battle is done, right?
Then all you do is decorate them with fun and creepy details, like skulls, bones, bloody eyeballs, broken glass, shovels, tombstones, marshmallow ghosts or whatever your little undead heart desires!
With just a few ingredients and a bit of spine-chilling imagination, get ready to dig into these hauntingly delicious treats that are sure to impress your ghoulish guests.
Whether you serve these fun treats at a Halloween party or just for fun, these mini cakes are sure to be a hit! Get ready to up your baking game this Halloween with these graveyard mini cakes!
Ingredients You Need
- 1 boxed red velvet or chocolate cake mix + ingredients called out to make cake (eggs, oil, water)
- 1 tub Chocolate Frosting
– depending how thick you like your frosting, you may want 2 tubs - Crushed Oreos
- Mini Loaf Pans with lids
- Mini Dessert Shovels
– depending how thick you like your frosting, you may want 2 tubs
How to Make the Graveyard Mini Dirt Cakes
Prepping the Cake
- Preheat oven 350 F & make the cake mix according to box cake instructions.
- Spray mini loaf pans with non-stick cooking spray and pour cake batter 2/3rds full and place on a large baking sheet. (If you overfill and cakes bake over the top, and you want to level the cakes more, just take a sharp knife and cut the excess cake off to make the cakes level.)
- Bake mini cakes for 18-25 minutes and let cool in pans.
Decorating the Graveyard Mini Dirt Cakes
- Once the cakes are cooled, frost the mini cakes with an offset spatula or knife.
- Add the crushed Oreos on top.You can use a food processor, or you can place the Oreos in a plastic bag and go over them with a rolling pin until they turn into crumbs.
Add Finishing Touches
- Add your decorative touches, such as Candy Eyeballs, Bloody Bones Sprinkle Mix, Candy Skulls, or any type of Halloween Sprinkles, Tombstones, zombie hands, mini pumpkins.
Box The Graveyard Mini Dirt Cakes Up
Place a mini dessert shovel
on top of the cake and cover with plastic lid. How cool are these already packaged up and ready to give out to friends and family for special parties or just as a fun party momento!
These graveyard dirt cups will look great on your dessert table at your next halloween party!
Storing Mini Cakes
Store cakes at room temperature or in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
More Ideas for the Graveyard Mini Dirt Cakes
Add some mini peanut butter cups, chocolate chips or chopped Oreo cookies in your cake batter before you bake them! Surprise inside, right?
Maybe add a cream cheese mixture or a pudding mixture after the cake is baked for a screaming good filling inside!
In the celebration of Halloween, I’m sure you can come up with all kinds of goodies to put inside the cake as a prank or just some ghoulish fun!
Add some grabbing zombie hands, candy pumpkins, candy bones, gummy worms, gummy spiders, peeps ghosts, tombstone cookies made with milano cookies or these fun candy tombstones, which are included in the sprinkle mix with bones & eyes. I just didn’t put them on these because I didn’t have any left after I made my Halloween Graveyard Dirt Cake.
The options are endless, so get creative and let your Halloween vibe take over!
These delectable treats not only look like real graves in miniature, they also will have your guests asking for seconds.
With a layer of chocolate cake, crushed oreo cookie crumbs and a sprinkle of bloody bones, eyeballs and mini skulls, this halloween graveyard dirt cake recipe are a fun and easy dessert that can be enjoyed by both kids and adults alike!
With graveyard mini dirt cakes, the possibilities to enjoy Halloween cake is are truly endless and frightfully delicious. So, let’s make some haunting Graveyard Mini Dirt Cakes!
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Graveyard Mini Dirt Loaf Cakes
Ingredients
- 1 boxed cake mix + ingredients called out to make cake egg, oil, water
- 1 tub Chocolate Frosting - depending how thick you like your frosting you may want 2 tubs (microwave for 10 seconds if frosting is too thick to spread.)
- Crushed Oreos
- Decoratives: Eyeballs Bloody Bones Sprinkle Mix, Candy Skulls
- Mini Loaf Pans with lids
- Mini Dessert Shovels
Instructions
- How to Make the Graveyard Mini Dirt Cakes
- Preheat oven 350 F & make the cake mix according to box cake instructions.
- Spray mini loaf pans with non-stick cooking spray and pour cake batter 2/3rds full and place on a large baking sheet.
- Bake mini cakes for 18-25 minutes and let cool in pans.
- Once the cakes are cooled, frost the mini cakes with an offset spatula or knife.
- Add the crushed Oreos on top.You can use a food processor, or you can place the Oreos in a plastic bag and go over them with a rolling pin until they turn into crumbs.
- Add your decorative touches, such as Candy Eyeballs, Bloody Bones Sprinkle Mix, Candy Skulls, or any type of Halloween Sprinkles, Tombstones, zombie hands, mini pumpkins.
- Place a mini dessert shovel on top and cover with plastic lid.
Notes
Store cakes at room temperature or in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
