Graveyard-Themed Desserts For Halloween

Graveyard Cake #1: A topsy-turvy two-tiered purple fondant cake.

Graveyard Cake #2: A round single-tiered fondant cake with coffin and ghosts.

Graveyard Cake #3: A detailed cake with trees, tombstones, coffin and skeleton.

Graveyard Cake #4: A square cake with pumpkin patch.

Graveyard Cake #5: A colorful square cake with gummy worms and candy corn.

Graveyard Cake #6: A cake with an awesome mausoleum and gargoyle.

Graveyard Cake #7: A round bloody cake with gummy worms.

Graveyard Cake #8: A simple square cake with Nutter Butter tombstones.

Graveyard Cake #9: A cake inspired by "The Nightmare Before Christmas"

Graveyard Cake #10: A cake with a fondant grim reaper.

Graveyard Cake #11: A two-tiered orange cake.

Graveyard Cake #12: A square bloody cake with bones and body parts.

Graveyard Cake #13: A three-tiered tombstone cake with bats and ghosts.

Graveyard Cupcake #1: A simple R.I.P. tombstone cupcake.

Graveyard Cupcake #2: A simple Oreo cupcake with fondant ghost.

Graveyard Cupcake #3: Colorful cupcakes with milano cookies.

Graveyard Cupcake #4: A cupcake-cake with trees, ghosts and tombstones.

Graveyard Cupcake #5: Another awesome cupcake-cake with elaborate details.

Graveyard Cupcake #6: An intricate R.I.P. tombstone cupcake.

Graveyard Cupcake #7: Cute cupcakes with coconut zombie heads.

Graveyard Cupcake #8: Cupcakes with milano cookie tombstones and plastic ghosts.

Graveyard Cookie #1: Incredible iced tombstone cookies with skeleton detail.

Graveyard Cookie #2: A tombstone sugar cookie with green sugar crystals.

Graveyard Cookie #3: Glittery tombstone cookies with clever inscriptions.

Graveyard Cookie #4: Tombstone cookies with gray royal icing.

Graveyard Cookie #5: A thick tombstone sugar cookie with brown sugar and daisies.

Graveyard Cookie #6: Vanilla and chocolate tombstone cookies with black icing.

Graveyard Cookie #7: Tombstone and coffin cookies with fondant and chocolate.

Graveyard Cookie #8: A cracked fondant tombstone cookie.

Graveyard Cookie #9: Purple tombstone cookies with daisies and spiders.

Wilton Primary Colors Fondant, Multi Pack

Fondant PROS:
• + Can be sculpted to create amazing details
• + Gives your cake a professional-quality appearance
• + Can be easily dyed using food coloring
Fondant CONS:
• - More expensive than frosting
• - Rarely tastes as delicious as it looks and needs to be flavored
• - Difficult to shape and sculpt

Evriholder Frost-Ease Frosting Decorator

Frosting PROS:
• + Cheap
• + Easy to find in grocery stores
• + Can be store-bought in lots of delicious flavors
• + Can be easily dyed using food coloring
Frosting CONS:
• - Can give your cake a sloppy appearance if not carefully decorated

• Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies
• homemade sugar cookies
• chocolate graham crackers
• sugar wafers
• mini Hershey bars

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2. Myra Mains
3. Frank N. Stein
4. Yule B. Next
5. Barry D'live
6. Goodin Dead
7. Willy Rott
8. M.T. Casket
9. Seymore Bones
10. Doug M. Upp

Fondant Ghosts: Roll a small ball of white fondant into a thin, flat sheet. Use a knife to cut a square out of the sheet. Pinch the center of the square with your fingers and shape into a pyramid. Use chocolate frosting to add eyes and a mouth.

Peep Ghosts: Baking with kids? Skip the potential mess of other recipes and simply buy your ghosts at the grocery store! Use a toothpick to adhere each ghost to your cake.

Sugar Cookie Ghosts: Cookie cutters are an excellent way to create identical ghosts, but if you want a variety of ghouls haunting your graveyard cake, shape your sugar cookie dough by hand. Top off your ghosts with gray royal icing, vanilla frosting or clear sugar crystals and enjoy!

Marshmallow Ghosts: Marshmallow ghosts are an easy and adorable addition to your Halloween graveyard cake. Just push a toothpick into the bottom of each marshmallow for support then stick them to your cake. Don't forget to give your ghosts a pair of chocolate-frosting eyes.

Dirt: A pack of crushed Oreos makes one big delicious pile of "dirt." Use it to add fresh graves (or freshly dug-up graves!) to your graveyard cake.

Pumpkins: Create a patch of pumpkin candies using vanilla frosting and green food dye for the vines.

Trees: Add a little horror to your Halloween cake with some crooked black trees. How? Either sculpt them out of fondant, hand-shape them using double chocolate cookie dough or buy pre-made Halloween tree cake toppers.

Zombies: Bring the dead back to life on your graveyard cake with zombies and skeletons. Plastic zombie hands can be bought online and strategically placed in your piles of Oreo "dirt" to look like resurrected bodies.


Skeletons & Bones: Use bone-shaped candy to bury a surprise inside your graveyard cake. Your Halloween party guests will love digging up the bones in their cake slices! Some bone candies will melt in the oven so be sure to add them when your cake is mostly cooked but still slightly gooey.

Coffins: Use chocolate graham crackers to build coffins for your graveyard cake. Attach the graham crackers to one another using chocolate frosting. If you're feeling bold, sculpt a zombie or mummy out of fondant and stick in inside your graham cracker coffin.

The Grim Reaper: A grim reaper can be the ultimate cherry on top of your graveyard cake sundae. Sculpt your own out of fondant if you're artistically inclined or buy a small plastic figurine online and attach it with frosting.

Fences & Gates: Depending on the shape and size of your cake, fences and gates can add fantastic detail to your graveyard. Smooth fondant cakes with multiple tiers can add gates and fences to the sides of each tier using chocolate frosting (or more fondant). Square frosted cakes can create gates and fences using toothpicks, popsicle sticks, chocolate-covered pretzel sticks or fondant.