Ingredients
-
-
1 (18 1/4 ounce) package cake mix (I used Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Devil's Food)
-
1 1/3 cups water
-
1/2 cup vegetable oil
-
3 large eggs
-
-
10 ounces nabisco Oreo cookies, crushed (may use gingersnap crumbs if it goes with your cake)
-
1 1/2-2 cups prepared vanilla frosting (or other suitable flavor)
-
1 -4 package cake decorating gel (green, black, orange or brown, etc, as needed)
-
1 cup candy corn (or pumpkin-shaped candy)
-
1/4 cup harvest colored sprinkles or 1/4 cup colored crystal sugar (orange, green, yellow, etc)
-
6 -10 pepperidge farm milano cookies (or suitable oval shaped butter cookies)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Mix together cake mix, water, oil, and eggs according to package directions.
- If your package requires different ingredients to make cake, follow those instructions instead.
- Grease and flour a glass 13x9-inch cake pan.
- If you use a dark or coated pan, do your baking at 325°F.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in a preheated oven for approx 35 minutes (38-40 minutes for dark or coated pans) or until cake is done.
- Allow cake to cool in the pan.
- Spread frosting evenly on cooled cake.
- Sprinkle frosting with crumbled cookies (oreos or whatever you are using).
- Using gel frostings, write sayings on 1/2 of the milano cookies (some sayings might be"Justin Tyme","Yul B Next","RIP","M T Tomb","Will B Back","Barry M Deep", etc).
- Press 1/2 of cookie down into cake and icing to resemble a standing tombstone.
- Arrange ghost marshmallows in a standing position on top of cake.
- Scatter candies and/or sprinkles or sugars on cake to garnish.