You have to bake the cakes in a 13-by-9-by-2-inch pan, an 8-inch ovenproof bowl and a 6-inch loaf pan. I did follow the directions for decorating. This graveyard cake was a big hit, everyone loved it.įor this Graveyard cake I used 2 box mixes and store-bought frosting. Then 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. Add a plastic skeleton (mine only had one leg so I made him look like he was coming out of the ground).My daughter loved this graveyard cake and had lots and lots of questions of where I bought the cake. Add tombstones (chocolate bars cut in lengths - use what you think would look like good tombstone shapes, this will depend on what country you live in and what bars you have).Īdd a small twig out of the garden for a tree (make sure it is pretty clean). It doesn't have to be perfect - its a graveyard. Place top cake layer on top of bottom and cover whole cake with icing. Fill holes with raspberry sauce (I bought ice cream sauce).
Spread a little icing in the holes you made on bottom cake half just to seal the hole but not fill it - let harden. Spread some icing on underside of top cake half and let harden. Make gray icing (icing sugar and water) - not too runny. Scoop out a few holes in bottom layer (don't go right through). Cool and slice into two halves, top and bottom, or make two cakes.
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