Grave Intentions Halloween Cake

Name: Grave Intentions Halloween Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 8 - 12 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 Chocolate-frosted sheet cake, homemade or store bought; Chocolate frosting; Pepperidge Farm Milano and/or Bordeaux cookies; Crushed chocolate wafers; Rademaker chocolate sticks; Small plastic skeletons, for decorating

Trick out a chocolate frosted sheet cake in minutes!

By Paul LowePublished: Oct 1, 2011

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sheet cake with cookie gravestones, dirt and skeletons

Hector M. Sanchez

Yields:

8 - 12 serving(s)

Prep Time:

10 mins

Total Time:

10 mins

The key to this mini-cemetery: tombstones fashioned from Pepperidge Farm’s Milano and Bordeaux cookies.

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Ingredients

1 Chocolate-frosted sheet cake, homemade or store bought
Chocolate frosting
Pepperidge Farm Milano and/or Bordeaux cookies
Crushed chocolate wafers
Rademaker chocolate sticks
Small plastic skeletons, for decorating

Directions

1. Step 1Decorate the tombstones: fill a resealable plastic bag with chocolate frosting, seal the bag, and snip off a tiny corner. Pipe RIP or X on the upper half of each cookie.
2. Step 2Push the cookies into the cake (as shown) and pile crushed chocolate wafers in front of a few to conjure dirt mounds. Trim the perimeter of the cake with a fence of Rademaker chocolate sticks, cut to various heights.
3. Step 3Finally, separate and insert pieces of small plastic skeletons into the cookie-crumb dirt.