Dessert: Deserted Graveyard Cake Recipe | MyRecipes

Prepare this decadent, chocolate-frosted cake for a festive Halloween dessert.

Ingredients

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 cup whole milk
1 cup (2 sticks) plus 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/3 cup sliced almonds, toasted
1 tablespoon pumpkin seeds, toasted
Red, yellow and brown liquid food coloring
1 16-oz. can chocolate frosting
7 cookies (such as Milano)
1/2 12-oz. bag small pretzel sticks
1/4 cup candy corn
10 candy pumpkins

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 °F. Fill a medium pot with water; bring to a boil. Line a 13-by-9-inch pan with a length of foil, letting foil edges hang over at least 2 inches on longer sides of pan. Grease and flour pan. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, stir together cocoa powder and 1/3 cup boiling water; whisk in milk until smooth.
Using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, and vanilla. Reduce speed to low; add flour and cocoa mixtures, alternating each 3 times, scraping down sides of bowl.
Pour batter into prepared pan and, using a rubber spatula, spread smoothly. Bake, rotating halfway through, until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Cool in pan for 1 hour; using foil as handles, remove cake from pan and turn out onto a tray to cool completely.
Color leaves: In a small bowl, combine sliced almonds and pumpkin seeds with 3 drops of red coloring. Gently mix with a spoon. Repeat with drops of yellow and brown coloring, as desired.
Decorate cake: Place 2 Tbsp. frosting in a ziplock bag. Cut a small hole in corner and pipe RIP onto cookies. Cover top and sides of cake with remaining frosting. Adhere pretzel sticks along sides, about 1/4 inch apart, leaving 2 2-inch gaps for path. Create path with candy corn.
Cut 7 small slits on top of cake and insert gravestone cookies; scatter almonds and pumpkin seeds at each cookie, and at corners and edges of cake, to resemble fall leaves. Add candy pumpkins around cake, as desired.

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