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Halloween Graveyard Dirt Cake
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Halloween Graveyard Dirt Cake

With its spooky graveyard & marshmallow ghosts, this easy & fun Halloween Graveyard Dirt Cake recipe is sure to be the talk of the party.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Keyword: cake, chocolate, frosting, halloween, Oreos
Servings: 12 Servings
Calories:
Author: Kim Lange

Ingredients

Halloween Dirt Cake

  • 1 9x13 cake baked and cooled, I used a Chocolate Devil's Food Cake mix + ingredients and baked according to instructions.
  • 1 batch of Homemade Brownie Frosting or use 1 or 2 tubs of store-bought Chocolate Frosting depending how thick you like your frosting
  • 10 Oreos crushed into crumbles for the graveyard ground
  • Peep Ghosts
  • Gummy Worms
  • Candy Skulls Candy Skulls
  • Eyeballs, Bloody Bones Sprinkle Mix Eyeballs, Bloody Bones Sprinkle Mix

Cookies to Make Tombstones

  • Nutter Butters or Biscoff Cookies
  • 2 Cups White chocolate melts
  • Black or brown food coloring use very sparingly to get marbled look
  • Eyeballs Bloody Bones Sprinkle Mix
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Instructions

Make the Tombstones

  • Make some tombstones while you bake the cake.
  • Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  • Melt white chocolate melts in microwave in 30 second increments until melted and smooth.
  • Add a touch of brown food coloring or black food coloring or a mixture of both to your melted white chocolate and dip your cookies into the melted chocolate, giving them a marbled look. Decorate with some skulls, RIP, bones.
  • Let chocolate set on cookies.

How To Make Halloween Graveyard Dirt Cake

  • Prepare a 9x13 cake, baked and cooled, I made a boxed Spice Cake but you could make a Chocolate Devil's Food Cake mix + ingredients and bake cake according to instructions.

Frost the Cake

  • Once the cake is cooled, frost the cake with a batch of Homemade Brownie Frosting or use 1 or 2 tubs of store-bought Chocolate Frosting, depending how thick you like your frosting. Pipe a border around the cake.

Assemble the Graveyard

  • Scoop and toss the Oreo crumbles on top to cover the cake to resemble ground cover.
  • Place the Ghost Peeps where you want on the cake by taking a knife and cutting into the spot where you want to place it and move the knife side to side to make room to gently fit the ghost bottom into the cake.
  • Press some chocolate covered tombstones into the cake.
  • Add lots of gummy worms, bloody bones & eyeballs sprinkles and mini candy skulls