Halloween Graveyard Cake Recipe

It’s that time of year and if you’re looking for Halloween treats, then you have to try my Halloween graveyard cake recipe. It’s a real showstopper.

The Brownie

1. Melt 190g of butter. Add this to a mixing bowl along with 250g caster sugar, 3 eggs, 80g plain flour, 200g dark chocolate, 20g cocoa powder and 1 tsp baking powder.
2. Mix until smooth than spread into a greased oven dish. Bake in an oven preheated to 190c/375f for 25 minutes.
3. When baked, remove from the oven and leave to cool on a rack.

Icing

4. Melt 25g of butter then add 2 tbsp of cocoa powder. Mix together then add 75g of icing sugar.
5. Gradually mix in 15ml of milk until smooth.
6. When the brownie is cool, trim the edges and evenly spread the icing on top.
7. Crumble some of the edge pieces on top of the icing before it sets.

Ghosts and Pumpkins

8. Whisk the egg white until light and fluffy. Then slowly add 50g of caster sugar whilst continuing to whisk.
9. When the mixture can form stiff peaks, take half and pipe out ghost shapes onto a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper.
10. Add orange food colouring to the remaining mixture and pipe out some pumpkin shapes.
11. Bake in the oven on 130c/265f for 30 minutes.
12. Leave to cool then decorate with coloured icing (green, red and black).

Headstones

13. Get some biscuits in the shape of headstones (I used Nice biscuits).
14. Cover in melted dark chocolate and allow to set on greaseproof paper in the fridge.
15. When set, pipe “RIP” onto each headstone using melted white chocolate. Allow to set again.

Putting it all together

16. Push the headstones into the brownie. Then stick down the pumpkins and ghosts around the graveyard using melted chocolate. Enjoy!

For more Halloween treats, check out my Halloween cupakes recipe.