


You keep them in place in your front yard graveyard with stakes that come with the tombstones. Halloween tombstones are usually made from foam and very light. Simply melt your white chocolate (20secs at a time in the microwave) and add it to a plastic freezer bag (or piping bag with small round tip) and draw onto greaseproof paper (parchment).Īllow your chocolate to set (room temperature for 5-10mins or fridge if it’s hot where you live) and then carefully peel them off.Tombstones, Grave stones, Headstones and more… Top Halloween Tombstone Decorations For example, here I’ve drawn small bones out of white chocolate. You can draw little Halloween designs with melted white chocolate. Basically, throw on as many tasty creepy things as you can bury in the chocolate soil. Go wild and add edible bats, ghosts, skulls or fake flowers too. Instead, you can try a pumpkin dirt cake by adding candy pumpkins or these pumpkin cake pops (just remove the sticks!). I’ve also used candy eyes, candy worms and little white chocolate bones to decorate my dirt cake. One of the best things about a Halloween dirt cake is the fun decorations! This graveyard cake has tombstones made from sandwich cookies, but you can use any shaped cookie or biscuit (such as Milano cookies) of your choice. You can also decorate your dirt cake with gummy worms and other Halloween candy, then enjoy! Use any leftover white chocolate to draw small bones onto a piece of greaseproof paper, then peel them off once they've set (roughly 5mins) and add them to your dirt cake. Allow this to set for 5mins then push these into the top of your dirt cake. Melt white chocolate in a heatproof bowl in the microwave (20 secs at a time).Īdd this to a piping bag with a small round tip (or plastic bag with the corner cut off) and write “RIP” on the Oreos. If using, cut two sides off of 6 or more Oreos to make gravestones. Smooth the remaining cream mixture on top and refrigerate for at least 3hrs or overnight before sprinkling over the ½ cup / 75g crushed Oreos and decorating. Pour half of the cream mixture into your dish, smoothing gently, then evenly layer on the other half of the Oreo-butter mixture. In a separate bowl, whip the cream using a hand mixer or stand mixer until stiff peaks form.įold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture then gently stir in the instant pudding until smooth. Using a stand mixer or a hand mixer in a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and icing sugar until fully combined. In a medium bowl, stir together the milk and pudding mix until smooth, then refrigerate. Refrigerate this and leave the other half on the side at room temperature. Press half of the Oreo butter mixture into the base of your dish. In a heatproof bowl, melt the butter (in the microwave for 30secs) and stir into the crushed Oreos. Set aside ½ cup / 75g for later in an airtight container and pour the rest into a medium mixing bowl. Be careful, but also use it to de-stress a little!Ĭrush the Oreos to fine crumbs using a food processor. It’s easiest to use a food processor to crush your Oreos to fine crumbs, but you can instead put your cookies in a plastic freezer bag and whack them with a rolling pin against a hard surface. a Ziploc bag) and cut the corner off, once filled with melted white chocolate, making a small hole. Alternatively, you can use a plastic freezer bag (i.e. Wilton #3 piping tip) to write with melted white chocolate. To decorate your cookie gravestones, you can use a piping bag with a small round nozzle (e.g. This is also a great way to use up any leftover mix if your dish is a bit smaller. You can also instead make Halloween dirt pudding cups by layering your dessert into individual clear plastic cups. For a larger dish such as 9 x 13inch, try doubling the recipe. I usually make this dirt cake in a rectangular glass dish 6inch x 8inch size (roughly 3-cup), but any small-medium sized dish will work, such as a casserole or trifle dish.
