Milk Chocolate Graveyard Cake
Milk Chocolate Graveyard Cake is a spooky-themed dessert featuring moist milk chocolate cake layered with creamy chocolate frosting, topped with crushed cookies and decorated with edible tombstones and creepy treats—perfect for Halloween or any fun, eerie celebration!
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature for 30 minutes
- 1/3 cup semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups well-shaken buttermilk (or 1 cup milk plus 1 tablespoon lemon juice)
- 5 sticks (2 1/2 cups) butter, cut into tablespoon pieces and softened
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 5 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 1/2 cups milk chocolate, melted and cooled
- 1/2 cup unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 (9-ounce) box chocolate wafer cookies
- 1 tube black icing
- 1 bag chocolate sandwich cookies (recommended: pepperidge farm milano cookies)
- chocolate tree, recipe follows
- candy rocks
- candy pumpkins
- candy bones, recipe follows
- white cotton candy
- 18 pretzel sticks and rods of various sizes
- 36 mini-marshmallows (about 1/2 cup)
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 cup chocolate chips, melted