Spooktacular Halloween Graveyard Cake

Ingredients

For the Cake

• 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

To Decorate

• 10 ounces nabisco Oreo cookies, crushed (may use gingersnap crumbs if it goes with your cake)
• 6-10 pepperidge farm milano cookies (or suitable oval shaped butter cookies)
• 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 colored crystal sugar (orange, green, yellow, etc)
• 6-12 laboratory decorative candies (chocolate candy foil-wrapped like eyeballs, ears, lips, body parts, etc) (optional)
• 4-6 ghost-shaped peeps marshmallows (may also use cats or pumpkins)

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 350°F.

2. 2

   Mix together cake mix, water, oil, and eggs according to package directions.

3. 3

   If your package requires different ingredients to make cake, follow those instructions instead.

4. 4

   Grease and flour a glass 13x9-inch cake pan.

5. 5

   If you use a dark or coated pan, do your baking at 325°F.

6. 6

   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.

7. 7

   Allow cake to cool in the pan.

8. 8

   Spread frosting evenly on cooled cake.

9. 9

   Sprinkle frosting with crumbled cookies (oreos or whatever you are using).

10. 10

    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).

11. 11

    Press 1/2 of cookie down into cake and icing to resemble a standing tombstone.

12. 12

    Arrange ghost marshmallows in a standing position on top of cake.

13. 13

    Scatter candies and/or sprinkles or sugars on cake to garnish.