Ghosts And Goblins In The Graveyard Cake Recipe

How to make it

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• THAW cake until frosting softens.
• Trim one edge of Styrofoam plate even with cake, using scissors. Repeat with other cake.
• Place these two sides together.
• SMOOTH frosting where cakes are joined, using a metal spatula dipped in water.
• Smooth frosting on sides of cake.
• PLACE 5 chocolate Milano cookies in zipper plastic bag.
• Close and crush with rolling pin until crumbs form.
• Set aside.
• Tint 1 cup white frosting orange with food color.
• DECORATE remaining chocolate Milano and distinctive Milano cookies to resemble tombstones, adding "Boo", "RIP", spiderwebs, skull & cross bones, using chocolate, orange and white frosting (see photo)*.
• FROST Brussels cookies with orange frosting, spreading frosting to resemble the lines of a pumpkin.
• Add jack-o-lantern faces if desired, using piping gels.
• Decorate pumpkins with green jellybean halves for stems.
• FROST goldfish crackers with white frosting to resemble ghosts. Add mini chocolate chips for "eyes".
• ARRANGE tombstones on top of cake.
• Sprinkle reserved chocolate Milano cookie crumbs around them for "dirt".
• PRESS jack-o-lanterns, pumpkins and ghosts on sides of cake as shown.
• TIP: *Use various size decorating tips available at craft stores or in grocery stores.
• Or make up your own decorations for your scary Halloween Cake. You'll find a variety of seasonal cake and cookie decorations in craft stores.