Description
Spooky halloween graveyard chocolate poke cake combines dark chocolate layers with ghostly decorations and creamy pudding filling. Graveyard-themed dessert delights party guests with playful cookie tombstones and eerie marshmallow spirits.
Ingredients
Scale
Cake Base:
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- Ingredients required on cake mix box (typically eggs, water, oil)
Pudding and Liquid:
- 1 package (3.9 ounces / 110 grams) instant chocolate pudding mix
- 2 cups milk
Decorative Toppings:
- 10 chocolate sandwich cookies (crushed for dirt effect)
- Tombstone-shaped cookies or graham crackers
- Candy pumpkins
- Gummy worms
- Whipped cream or frosting (optional)
Instructions
- Prepare chocolate cake following package directions in a 9×13-inch pan, allowing it to cool to room temperature for about 15-20 minutes.
- Using a wooden spoon handle, create systematic holes across the entire cake surface, ensuring even distribution.
- Whisk chocolate pudding mix with milk until smooth and slightly thickened, approximately 2 minutes.
- Carefully pour pudding over cake, gently spreading to ensure complete coverage of the holes.
- Crush chocolate sandwich cookies into fine, uneven crumbs to mimic realistic soil texture.
- Generously sprinkle cookie crumbs across the entire cake surface, completely covering the pudding layer.
- Strategically place tombstone-shaped cookies at varying angles to create a spooky graveyard landscape.
- Scatter candy pumpkins and gummy worms randomly across the cake to enhance the Halloween-themed design.
- Refrigerate the decorated cake for minimum 60 minutes to allow pudding to set and flavors to meld together.
Notes
- Ensure cake is slightly warm when poking holes for maximum pudding absorption.
- Crush chocolate cookies finely to create realistic “dirt” texture on cake surface.
- Use different shaped cookies for tombstones to add variety and depth to graveyard design.
- Refrigerate cake for at least 2 hours for best flavor and firmer pudding consistency.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 304 kcal
- Sugar: 30 g
- Sodium: 295 mg
- Fat: 11 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 45 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg