For a Halloween party this year, my daughter and I put together a recipe for a graveyard cake. It had to be spooky, with some treats scattered on top. We quickly found what we were looking for on the internet and decided on this Halloween cake. Everyone was very enthusiastic, it tasted great, and I have to say, it was made quite quickly:
Halloween Cake Recipe: Graveyard Cake
Conclusion: The cake was very well received, it tastes very good, is moist and chocolatey. It was really made quite quickly. Well, the Oreo tombstones are perhaps a bit of a gimmick, but you can also use Messino's or other rectangular cookies here, for example. I think it's great that it doesn't matter what the cake looks like, since you 'hide' it under a cream and all the crumbs anyway. I find the cake serving funny when you can call out: "With or without a tombstone? Or would you prefer a worm?"
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Preparation
Preheat the oven to 170°C (338°F) convection. First, whisk the eggs, oil, and sugar with a mixer until frothy. Add the flour, baking powder, and cocoa with the milk and mix well until you have a uniform consistency. Grease the baking pan (we just used our baking tray!) with oil or butter and dust with flour. Pour the batter into the baking pan, spread it out well, and bake on the middle rack in the oven at 170°C convection for 70 to 80 minutes.
Let the cake cool well, then turn it out of the baking tin. Preferably onto a slightly larger tray. Our cake was a bit sticky and we helped with a knife. The great thing is that the surface doesn’t matter, because cream and crumbs will go on top. If the cake is uneven, you can even shave off a little of the top layer and crumble the pieces.
For the Nutella cream, whisk all ingredients in a bowl to a creamy consistency. Spread the cream evenly over the whole cake; this works very well with a long knife, or, if you have one, with a cake spatula.
Cut the Oreos on a small board with a sharp knife into tombstones. Keep the cut-off pieces in a bowl.
Now it’s time for the dirt. To do this, split the Oreos apart and remove the cream with a knife (that will be eaten right away!). We crushed the chocolate cookies in a small mortar until they were well crumbled so that it looks like soil.
In terms of consistency, we crushed the Oreos into very small crumbs:
We also crumbled the cake pieces using the mortar or by hand.
We mixed the crumbs from the Oreos and from the cake and spread them over the cream. We preferred the Oreo crumbs because they were darker.
Now for the decoration — our favorite part. Stick the Oreo tombstones into the cream on the cake as desired and arrange them over the whole cake.
Distribute suitable gummy decorations according to your taste. We decided on gummy worms (a must!), gummy mice, and gummy frogs. Before Halloween, there is a lot of choice here.
You can also wonderfully stick the gummy creatures into the cake or slide them under the cake. Our worms were quite long, so we halved a few with a knife and stuck them into the cake.
Tips & Notes
When children are joining in - put as many, if not more, gravestones on the cake as there are children attending. Saves tears and arguments. Trust me.
The same applies here: plan one of each (!) gummy animal per child. To be on the safe side, keep the open bag ready.
