Description
Dark chocolate cake becomes a spooky masterpiece with Halloween Graveyard Chocolate Poke Cake, inviting ghoulish delight. Creamy pudding and haunting decorations create a wickedly delicious dessert perfect for your Halloween gathering.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 1 package instant chocolate pudding mix
- 2 cups (480 milliliters) milk
Cake Preparation Ingredients:
- Ingredients as per cake mix box
Decorative Ingredients:
- 1 container whipped topping
- Crushed chocolate sandwich cookies
- Halloween-themed candy decorations (tombstones, pumpkins, etc.)
Instructions
- Craft a rich chocolate cake following the package’s precise guidelines, ensuring a moist and even bake.
- Allow the cake to cool completely, transforming the surface into a dimpled landscape using the wooden spoon’s rounded handle.
- Whisk instant pudding mix with milk until smooth and creamy, then carefully cascade the mixture over the cake, ensuring each strategically poked hole becomes a reservoir of chocolatey goodness.
- Gently drape a layer of whipped topping across the cake’s surface, creating a smooth, cloud-like canvas.
- Pulverize chocolate cookies into fine crumbs, then artfully scatter them over the white topping to mimic dark, eerie graveyard soil.
- Transform the cake into a haunting Halloween scene by strategically placing spooky candy tombstones, chocolate ghosts, and edible monster decorations across the “dirt” landscape.
- Chill the macabre masterpiece in the refrigerator for a minimum of one hour, allowing flavors to meld and the presentation to set, creating a spine-chilling dessert ready to delight Halloween enthusiasts.
Notes
- Use a box mix for consistent texture and easy preparation, ensuring a moist chocolate cake every time.
- Create perfectly even holes by using the handle of a wooden spoon at consistent intervals across the cake surface.
- Chill the cake thoroughly to help pudding set completely and enhance the overall flavor melding.
- For gluten-free version, swap regular chocolate cake mix with gluten-free alternative and use gluten-free cookies for topping.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 300
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 250mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 42g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 30mg