Description
This Haunted Oreo Graveyard Cake is the ultimate Halloween dessert showstopper. Rich devil’s food chocolate cake is soaked with sweetened condensed milk and hot fudge, then topped with whipped cream, crushed Oreos resembling dirt, and decorated with cookie tombstones, candy pumpkins, and gummy worms for a spooky cemetery scene that’s as delicious as it is fun to create.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 box devil’s food chocolate cake mix (and ingredients listed on the box)
- 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (12 oz) jar hot fudge sauce, warmed up
- 1 (8 oz) tub whipped topping, thawed (like Cool Whip)
- 20 Oreo cookies, crushed into spooky dirt
- 6–8 Milano cookies (or any oval-shaped cookies), for tombstones
- Black gel icing or edible marker
- Candy pumpkins, gummy worms, candy bones — your haunted decorations of choice!
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9×13 inch baking dish. Mix and bake the devil’s food cake according to the directions on the box. Let it cool for about 10–15 minutes once it’s out.
- Use the handle of a wooden spoon and poke holes all over the cake. Pour the sweetened condensed milk all over, letting it sink into every nook and cranny. Follow it up with the warmed hot fudge sauce.
- Once the cake is totally cool, spread the whipped topping all over the top like a ghostly cloud.
- Crush up the Oreos using a zip-top bag and a rolling pin, or a food processor. Sprinkle the cookie dirt right over the whipped topping, covering it edge to edge like a creepy graveyard floor.
- Write spooky names or “RIP” on the Milano cookies using black gel icing or edible marker — these are your tombstones. Press them upright into the cake.
- Tuck in a few candy pumpkins, stick in some gummy worms trying to escape the ground, and toss on candy bones for that eerie final touch.
Notes
- For best results, refrigerate the completed cake for at least 1 hour before serving to allow all the elements to set properly.
- If Milano cookies aren’t available, graham crackers cut into tombstone shapes work well as an alternative.
- To prevent tombstones from falling over, insert them at least 1/2 inch into the cake, ensuring they go through the Oreo layer and into the whipped topping beneath.
- The cake can be made up to 24 hours in advance; add the decorative elements within a few hours of serving for best presentation.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice (1/12 of cake)
- Calories: 425
- Sugar: 38g
- Sodium: 350mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 9g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 62g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 5g
- Cholesterol: 45mg