Graveyard Cake

Along with my block this week, my memory is getting a little cobwebby. Can it possibly be that I’ve written this blog for three-and-a-half years, aka four Halloweens, and not told you about my all-time favorite trick-on-a-treat? Every year I try and fail to come up with something as simple and clever as graveyard cake, which I first learned about from Clare Crespo back when I was a magazine editor. You can pull it together with any basic storebought or homemade sheet cake (Rosa’s does the trick), a dozen and a half crushed chocolate wafers (or Oreo tops and bottoms), and chocolate sprinkles. (As you can see, this project favors the artless.) Then, for the limbs, if you live in a house like mine, all it takes is one scrounge around the bottom of the toy box to uncover a treasure trove of dismembered Barbies. Happy Halloween!