Spooky Halloween Graveyard Cake

LAST WEEK Keighley Clandestine Cake Club turned one year old and we had a birthday party to celebrate, with of course lots of birthday cake!

I chose the same venue where we held our first meeting, which was the very lovely Cobbles and Clay in Haworth.

We had a great party, and even had time for some prizes (everyone was a winner) as well as cake eating, chatting and tea drinking!

As usual all the cakes were fantastic and we had some new members join us for the celebration, which was fantastic!

This year our cake club members are planning on meeting during the Bonfire Night celebrations with a theme of ‘fire’. Last year I created this recipe for the ‘Spooky’ themed cake club meeting and it went down a (trick or) treat!

Halloween, or Hallowe'en, is of course a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31. It is traditionally a time for remembering the dead, saints, martyrs and all the ‘faithful departed’.

Within Halloween, the traditional focus of All Hallows' Eve revolves around the theme of using ‘humour and ridicule to confront the power of death’.

Typical festive Halloween activities include trick or treating, attending fancy-dress parties, decorating and carving pumpkins into lanterns, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks on friends, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

I wanted to incorporate some of the Halloween fun into a cake, so I decided to create a spooky chocolate fudge graveyard!

As Halloween is just a few weeks away, and I know many of you will be planning scary parties or gatherings, or perhaps you just fancy making a Halloween cake. Well if you do, then this graveyard cake is for you!

This cake is a delicious, moist and decadent chocolate fudge cake, perfect for autumnal evenings and a flavour that everyone loves.

The Cake is topped with a tasty ganache and then decorated using Cadbury’s chocolate fingers, wafer-graves and mounds of crushed Cadbury’s Twirl. The popping candy ‘path’ melts into the ganache creating a shiny path, but when eaten, pops in the mouth, which is a spooky surprise!

This cake isn’t ideal for those watching their waistline but is sure to be a hit with kids and adults alike. The decorations are just an example, but you could decorate your ‘graveyard’ as you please. Biscuits can also be used as the gravestones if preferred to wafers!

The cake will easily serve 10 to 12 people, and any leftovers can be kept in the fridge for a couple of days.

Have a spooky and fun Halloween!

If you like baking cakes, then why not join Keighley’s Clandestine Cake Club? We are looking for new members. We meet every six weeks in secret locations to bake, eat and chat!

Email m_crowther@ymail.com or call 01535 661863 for further details.