4/12/2023 0 Comments Graveyard cakeThen I added some grass with my hair making tip. The door and the walkway is graham crackers and chocolate cookies crushed up. I made the crypt with graham crackers like a gingerbread house and iced it grey, added some spider webs and candy. I bought the fence and other parts at the cake store. I spooned a small amount out for each grave to make it look like a fresh grave and then covered that with crushed chocolate cookies.įor the dirt I bought some skeletons and cut them up and stuck various body parts in the dirt. I frosted it with store bought icing because it is creamier and easy to work with. This graveyard cake is a 1/4 sheet cake for a friend’s Halloween birthday. I used ghost “peeps” for the ghosts around the edges. I used home made buttercream & food colorings for the tree, grave, moon, pumpkin and grass. I made this graveyard cake from a box mix then used a marshmallow fondant for the blue background. All in all I’d say it took four hours to decorate this graveyard cake and it was a big hit. Lastly I piped “He Is Risen” on the side. The angels and large stone were all mounted on skewers so they’d stay put. I colored some white butter cream green, pink and purple and frosted the “grass” and piped on the flowers with a writing tip. The large stone was the bottom of a muffin I frosted and sprayed with food color. When the cake was hard I frosted the tomb with chocolate frosting and stuck the rocks to it. I also made some flat pieces of gum paste to look like rock to place on the dome and sprayed these also. Meanwhile I made the angels and stones from gum paste and used edible black spray for the stone effect. I gave it all a crumb coat and stuck it in the freezer. The scraps were piled on top of the dome to make it more irregular shaped. I iced the bowl cake on top of the square one and carved out the opening for the tomb. I baked two cakes one in a 9×13 pan and one in a stoneware mixing bowl. I wanted a cake that said Easter without a bunny so my daughter and I chose the empty tomb. When it came time for the cake I couldn’t really explain what I was looking for so I decided to do it myself, a graveyard cake! I was getting ready for my second wedding and my husband and I both love Halloween- so we decided to have a fun wedding – using most of the props we put out every year. Cover in frosting and accessories as you like. Wedge the last layer open with left over cake pieces. Place three on top of each other with butter icing in between them. I used a cardboard cut out to get the shape of the coffin. I made four rectangular chocolate sponge cakes. The only thing that was not edible on the cake was the legs for the spider and the little statue of the grim reaper. It hardens as it dries so you can make three dimensional objects to put on the cake. Fondant icing is a great thing to work with and it opens up a whole variety of ideas to do with your cake. Simply run a palette knife back and forth over the frosting to rectify this.My daughter loved this graveyard cake and had lots and lots of questions of where I bought the cake. I noticed that the sprinkles weren’t sticking as the frosting had already started to set. Sprinkle with the chocolate sprinkles to give the cake a ‘dirt’ texture. Working quickly, arrange the tombstones and press into the frosting and cake to secure.ħ. Once cooled, cover the top of the cake with a layer of chocolate frosting.ĥ. When the cake has finished baking, remove from oven and set aside to cool.Ĥ. Use the white chocolate and milk chocolate icing to decorate the biscuits.ģ. As the cake is baking, prepare the tombstone-shaped biscuits by cutting up the biscuits as required. Prepare the cake (see the above link underneath the ingredients section for instructions).Ģ. Ghost-shaped and pumpkin-shaped lollies (purchased from Woolworths)ġ. One chocolate devil’s food cake (see the following recipe)Ĭhocolate biscuits and Arnott’s Arrowroot biscuits It seemed like only yesterday that I was making Jack O’ Lantern cupcakes for last year’s Halloween occasion, and already a year has passed by! After scrolling through pages and pages of Halloween cakes and cupcakes for inspiration, I decided to make a graveyard cake, and this post details the processes that lead to my end product.
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