Page 136 - Betty Crocker - Halloween Cookbook

Graveyard Cake

PREP TIME: 55 Minutes • START TO FINISH: 1 Hour 20 Minutes • 24 servings

Cake 1. Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 15x10x1-inch pan with cooking spray.
1 box yellow cake mix with Make cake batter as directed on box, using water, oil and eggs. Pour
pudding in the mix batter into pan; spread evenly. Bake 17 to 22 minutes or until toothpick
Water, vegetable oil and inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan, about
eggs called for on cake 30 minutes.
mix box
2. Meanwhile, place sheet of foil on cookie sheet. Spoon melted candy
melts into small resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small
Frosting and Decorations hole in corner of bag. Squeeze melted candy in shape of tree onto foil.
¼ cup chocolate-flavored Refrigerate tree. Squeeze melted candy on sandwich cookies to look
candy melts or coating
wafers, melted like tombstones.
2 to 3 oval creme-filled or 3. In small bowl, mix frosting and food color until blended. Reserve ¼
peanut-shaped peanut cup frosting for roof and decorations. Frost cake with remaining frosting.
butter–filled sandwich With sharp knife, cut peaks in one short side of each of 2 graham
cookies, each cut in half crackers. Insert crackers into cake for front and back of haunted house.
crosswise
Break 1 graham cracker in half crosswise; insert into cake for sides of
1 container vanilla creamy house. Frost 2 graham crackers; place on house for roof.
ready-to-spread frosting
4. Break up 1 chocolate graham cracker; arrange on cake for walkway
20 drops neon green food
color and on house for windows and door. Arrange peanut butter pieces
along walkway. Pipe frosting along top of house; arrange candy corn in
5 rectangular graham
crackers frosting. Arrange chocolate tree, candy pumpkins and “tombstones”
on cake. Crush remaining chocolate graham cracker; mound graham
2 rectangular chocolate cracker crumbs in front of tombstones.
graham crackers
Candy-coated peanut 1 Serving (Cake and Frosting Only): Calories 190; Total Fat 9g (Saturated Fat 2g); Sodium
butter pieces 180mg; Potassium 25mg; Total Carbohydrate 28g (Dietary Fiber 0g); Protein 1g Exchanges:
½ Starch, 1½ Other Carbohydrate, 1½ Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 2
Candy corn

Candy pumpkins

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