Description
Haunting Halloween Graveyard Chocolate Poke Cake delights with ghoulish chocolate layers dripping with spooky caramel sauce. Dark chocolate crumbles and eerie cookie tombstones create a wickedly delicious dessert perfect for your Halloween celebration.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 2 cups milk
- 1 3.9 ounces (110 grams) box instant chocolate pudding
- 1 8 ounces (226 grams) tub whipped topping
Decorative Ingredients:
- 15 Oreo cookies, crushed
- Tombstone-shaped cookies (Milano or graham crackers)
Garnish Ingredients:
- Gummy worms
- Candy pumpkins
Instructions
- Craft chocolate cake in a 9×13-inch pan following package guidelines, allowing cake to cool slightly to room temperature.
- Create multiple deep holes across the cake surface using a wooden spoon handle, spacing them evenly.
- Whisk chocolate pudding mix with milk until smooth and slightly thickened, ensuring no lumps remain.
- Gently cascade pudding mixture over cake, carefully filling each punched hole completely.
- Delicately spread whipped topping across entire cake surface, creating an even layer.
- Crush Oreo cookies into fine crumbs, mimicking graveyard soil texture, and generously scatter over whipped topping.
- Design spooky landscape by strategically positioning tombstone cookies at various angles across the cake.
- Enhance graveyard scene by artfully positioning gummy worms to appear emerging from cookie “dirt” layer.
- Refrigerate cake for 1-2 hours, allowing pudding to set and flavors to meld, creating a chilling Halloween dessert.
Notes
- Customize the cake mix by adding extra cocoa powder for a richer chocolate flavor, enhancing the overall depth and intensity.
- Ensure holes are evenly spaced and deep enough to allow pudding to seep into the cake, creating a moist and decadent texture.
- For a gluten-free version, use gluten-free chocolate cake mix and cookies, making the dessert accessible to those with dietary restrictions.
- Experiment with different pudding flavors like dark chocolate or mocha to create unique variations on the classic Halloween graveyard cake.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 315 kcal
- Sugar: 30 g
- Sodium: 230 mg
- Fat: 12 g
- Saturated Fat: 7 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 45 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 25 mg