Spooktacular Halloween Graveyard Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package cake mix (i used duncan hines moist deluxe devil's food)
• 1 1/3 cups water
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 3 large eggs
• 10 ounces nabisco oreo cookies, crushed (may use gingersnap crumbs if it goes with your cake)
• 6 -10 pepperidge farm milano cookies (or suitable oval shaped butter cookies)
• 1 1/2-2 cups prepared vanilla frosting (or other suitable flavor)
• 1 -4 package cake decorating gel (green, black, orange or brown, etc, as needed)
• 1 cup candy corn (or pumpkin-shaped candy)
• 1/4 cup harvest colored sprinkles or 1/4 cup colored crystal sugar (orange, green, yellow, etc)
• 6 -12 laboratory decorative candies (chocolate candy foil-wrapped like eyeballs, ears, lips, body parts, etc) (optional)
• 4 -6 ghost-shaped peeps marshmallows (may also use cats or pumpkins)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 mix together cake mix, water, oil, and eggs according to package directions.
• 3 if your package requires different ingredients to make cake, follow those instructions instead.
• 4 grease and flour a glass 13x9-inch cake pan.
• 5 if you use a dark or coated pan, do your baking at 325°f.
• 6 pour batter into prepared pan and bake in a preheated oven for approx 35 minutes (38-40 minutes for dark or coated pans) or until cake is done.
• 7 allow cake to cool in the pan.
• 8 spread frosting evenly on cooled cake.
• 9 sprinkle frosting with crumbled cookies (oreos or whatever you are using).
• 10 using gel frostings, write sayings on 1/2 of the milano cookies (some sayings might be"justin tyme","yul b next","rip","m t tomb","will b back","barry m deep", etc).
• 11 press 1/2 of cookie down into cake and icing to resemble a standing tombstone.
• 12 arrange ghost marshmallows in a standing position on top of cake.
• 13 scatter candies and/or sprinkles or sugars on cake to garnish.