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Graveyard Cake

web posted October 8, 2006

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup butter
1 cup water
1/4 cup baking cocoa
1/2 cup sour cream
2 eggs.

For Icing:
1/4 cup butter
3 tbsp. milk
2 tbsp. baking cocoa
2 cups confectioners sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
18 cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies
Green and brown decorators icing or gel
9 or 10 cream-filled, oval, vanilla sandwich cookies
1 cup whipped topping
Small pumpkin candies and gummy worms

In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt, set aside. In a saucepan, combine butter, water and cocoa. Bring to a boil over med. heat. Add to flour mixture and beat well. Beat in sour cream and eggs. Pour into a 13x9x2 inch baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 38 mins, or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 5 mins. Meanwhile, in a saucepan, combine butter, milk and cocoa. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in sugar and vanilla. Pour over warm cake. Crumble chocolate cookies and sprinkle over frostng while still warm. Cool completely. For tombstones, use decorators icing to write on cookies. Use words like boo, and draw pictures of skull and crossbones, skeletons, scarry faces, etc. Place cookies, standing up, on cake. For ghost, place small piles of whipped topping among the tombstones and use icing to dot eyes, noses and mouths onto ghosts. Refrigerate at least one hour before serving. Add a few pumpkins and gummy worms among the ghosts and tombstones.

Yields 16 servings. (this cake will delight young children and impress others)
 

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