This fun Halloween sheet cake is a fun dessert for Halloween parties or fall dinners. Easy to make and made with the help of a store-bought cake mix.
This graveyard style cake is always a welcome treat on the Halloween dessert table. This is one of our easy Halloween recipe ideas that you will want to save for later.
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Why You Will Love This Recipe
This easy layer cake is festive and fun. It is a spooky Halloween cake that resembles a graveyard.
This chocolate cake dessert is made with just a few simple ingredients and it is a great way to celebrate Halloween season. It can also work as a Halloween themed birthday cake.
This is a festive dessert that the kids can help decorate the top of the cake. Whether it is for a family dinner or a Halloween party, this cake is fun to make.
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Ingredients
Just a few simple ingredients are needed for this recipe. Refer to the recipe card for the measurements.
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- chocolate cake mix
- eggs
- oil
- chocolate sandwich cookies
- chocolate chips
- Halloween sprinkles
- candy pumpkins
- gummy worms
See recipe card for quantities.
How to Make a Graveyard cake
The full recipe instructions for this copycat recipe are in the recipe card, below but here is a step by step overview.
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Combine cake mix with eggs, oil and water according to package directions
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Pour cake batter into oblong pan and bake cake at 350° f.
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Melt chocolate chips and fill piping bag.
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Pipe out RIP on milano cookies. Let set.
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Frost cake with chocolate frosting. Meanwhile, Make chocolate "dirt" with the chocolate sandwich cookies. (see below)
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Cover the top of the cake with crushed Oreos.
Add cookie headstones, candy pumpkins and gummy works to the top of the cake.
Hint: To make the chocolate dirt, crush Oreos in a ziploc plastic bag using a rolling pin or your hands to crush cookies.
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Substitutions & Variations
There are some fun ways to change this up.
- Round cake - instead of using a 13 x 9 pan, you can use two 9" round cake pans
- Ghosts - Fondant ghosts or ghost peeps also make for fun cake topper ideas.
- Spooky Eyes - you can add candy eyes coming out from the "dirt".
Equipment
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- large mixing bowl
- electric mixer
- 13" x 9" baking pan
- piping bag and tip
Storage
Store leftover cake wrapped with plastic wrap or in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
More Spooky Halloween Desserts
Halloween Cupcakes - Fun and spooky spider cupcakes that are super easy to make.
Monster Marshmallow Pops - Monsters made a green frosting made from white candy melts.
Halloween Monster Cookies - Cookies with spooky googly-eyed monsters
Halloween Chex Mix - A fun salty snack for the season.
Halloween Rice Krispie Treats - Mummy shaped rice Krispie treats
Witches Cupcakes - Cut and easy hat cookies that are perfect for Hocus Pocus parties.
Candy Corn Rice Krispie Treats - Cute Halloween treats that look like candy corn!
I hope you enjoyed this simple Halloween cake recipe and hope you have a happy Halloween.
📖 Recipe
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Halloween Sheet Cake
Ingredients
- 1 box Chocolate fudge cake mix
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup oil
- 1 container of chocolate frosting
- About 32 Chocolate sandiwch cookies
- 10 Milano cookies
- ½ cup chocolate chips
- For topping-
- Gummy worms
- candy corn pumpkins
- sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees f, and spray a 9x13 inch pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together cake mix, oil, water, and eggs, per package directions.
- Pour into prepared 9x13 inch pan.
- Bake according to the package directions- 30-35 minutes.
- Lay 9-10 Milano cookies onto a plate, set aside.
- Then, heat your chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl, on 20 second increments, stirring well in between. Add to a plastic sandwich sized storage bag, and snip the very tip off of the bag. Use the melted chocolate to write “RIP” onto your Milano cookies.
- Place cookies into the refrigerator to allow chocolate to set.
- Next, add chocolate cookies to a food processor, and blitz to crumbs. Set aside.
- Scoop the chocolate frosting out of the container and into a microwave safe bowl.
- Microwave for 20 seconds, and stir well. The frosting should be pourable.
- Pour the frosting evenly over the cake.
- Sprinkle oreo crumbs over the frosting.
- Decorate the cake with RIP cookies, candy pumpkins and gummy worms. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
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Tamara
Too cute! And any excuse to buy Milano cookies is fine by me!
Michelle
I love this cake - such a simple yet effective idea for Halloween! Popping by from #LYC
Donna @ Modern on Monticello
This is just so much fun to look at too! Thanks for sharing the recipe and a great idea for the holiday. This post will be a feature this week. #HomeMattersParty
Dana
This is so cute! My kids will love it. Thank you for the inspiration.
Raquel
Thanks Dana - it really makes a fun cake!