This Halloween Graveyard Poke Cake is the perfect dessert for a party! It's easy to make and can be decorated to look like a graveyard scene. If you are looking for a cute and slightly spooky cake for Halloween, then this is the recipe for you!
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Why Everyone Loves our Tombstone Poke Cake.
- This graveyard poke cake uses a boxed cake mix. So it is very easy to make.
- It's the perfect dessert for a Halloween party.
Dig Up These Ingredients and Substitutions
- Devil's food cake mix: any flavor cake mix works. Chocolate fits well with a Halloween theme.
- Instant white chocolate pudding mix: I use a sugar-free pudding mix. Vanilla pudding mix also works.
- Neon green and orange food coloring: I find these colors fit best for a Halloween theme. If white or yellow cake mix is your choice, neon purple is a great choice.
Graveyard Cake decorations
- Chocolate Sandwich Cookies: You can buy pre-crushed chocolate sandwich cookie crumbs or place your cookies in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin.
- Halloween Sweets for Toppings: Use any variation of a Halloween-themed marshmallow treat. ou can change up the decorations on top of this cake, based on the candy that you can find in your local store.
- Chocolate chip morsels: Skip the effort of melting chocolate chips and use an edible marker, or black gel icing to decorate the tombstones.
- Milano cookies: Nutter Butter Cookies also work as the tombstones
How to make Graveyard Poke Cake
This is an overview of the recipe. The full instructions are below in the recipe card.
The last step is to decorate the top of the cake with sprinkles, candy pumpkins, ghosts, cats, and tombstone cookies.
Make-Ahead, Storage, and Freezer Tips
Store this Halloween Poke Cake in the refrigerator for up to three days. Keep the cake tightly covered with plastic wrap or aluminum foil to protect it.
An airtight cake container works very well.
FAQs and Troubleshooting a great poke cake
Poke cakes got their name from poking holes in the top of cake to allow pudding or other filling to seep in.
The most common is to use the handle of a wooden spoon to make small holes evenly throughout the cake.
Yes, you can experiment with other flavors of cake mix for this recipe.
Halloween Pairings for the Poke Cake
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📖 Recipe
Halloween Graveyard Cake
Equipment
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F/177°C. Lightly grease a 9" x 13" baking dish.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine 15.25 box Devils Food Chocolate Cake Mix, 1 ¼ cup water, ½ cup vegetable oil, and 3 large eggs. Use a hand mixer with beaters attached to mix until combined. Pour the cake batter into the prepared baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes, a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Set the cake aside to cool on a wire rack.
- Using the handle of a wooden spoon poke holes into the cake.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the 1 (3.3) ounce instant white chocolate pudding mix (box) and 2 cups whole milk. Whisk until smooth, about 3 minutes.
- Separate the pudding into 2 medium-sized bowls.
- Mix neon green food coloring into one bowl of pudding. Then mix orange food coloring into the second bowl of pudding.
- Carefully spoon or use a clean cooking syringe to insert the pudding into the holes. I like to alternate colors.
- Top the cake with the 1 (8) ounce container, whipped topping, thawed
- In a small microwave-safe bowl, use 30-second intervals to melt ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips morsels until smooth.
- Place the melted chocolate into a sealable plastic bag and snip off a tiny corner.
- Break the bottom off each of the 4 Milano cookies. Using the plastic bag of chocolate, pipe R.I.P. onto each Milano cookies to resemble tombstones.
- In the bowl of a food processor with the S blade attached, add 30 Oreo Cookies, and crush them into a fine crumb. Spread the crumbs over the top of the cake.
- Decorate the top of the cake with Halloween sprinkles, Halloween marshmallow peeps, gummi worms, and tombstones.
- Set the cake in the fridge to chill for 2 hours.
- Slice and serve!
Nutrition
Nutritional values are estimates only. Please consult a professional for strict dietary needs.
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