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Graveyard Cake 

Prep time: 1 hrs
Cook Time: 25 min
Yield: 10 servings

Ingredients:

Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
1 (18.25 oz.)package Pillsbury® Yellow Cake
1cup water
1/3cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
3 large eggs
1/2cup chocolate-flavored candy melts or coating wafers, melted
1 (16 oz.)can Pillsbury® Chocolate Fudge Frosting
6 rectangular graham crackers
2 rectangular chocolate graham crackers
Candy-coated peanut butter pieces
Candy corn
3 candy pumpkins
6 oval creme-filled sandwich cookies, cut in half crosswise
7 baked refrigerator sugar cookie dough with ghost shapes

Preparation Directions:

1.HEAT oven to 350°F. Spray a 15 x 10 x 1-inch baking pan with no-stick cooking spray. Prepare cake mix as directed on package, using water, oil and eggs. Pour batter into prepared pan.
2.BAKE 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 30 minutes or until completely cooled.
3.PLACE sheet of foil on cookie sheet. Spoon melted candy melts into small resealable food storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small hole in bottom corner of bag. Squeeze melted candy in shape of trees onto foil. Refrigerate trees.
4.RESERVE 1/4 cup fudge frosting for roof and decorations. Frost cake with remaining frosting. With sharp knife, cut peaks in one short side of each of 2 graham crackers. Insert crackers into cake for front and back of haunted house. Break 1 graham cracker in half crosswise; insert into cake for sides of house. Frost 2 graham crackers; place on house for roof.
5.BREAK up chocolate graham crackers; arrange on cake for walkway and on house for windows and door. Arrange peanut butter pieces along edge of walkway. Pipe line of frosting along top of house; arrange candy corn in frosting.
6.ARRANGE chocolate trees on cake. Place candy pumpkins near house. Pipe frosting on sandwich cookies to resemble tombstones. Arrange "tombstones" on cake. Crush remaining graham cracker; mound graham cracker crumbs in front of tombstones for graves. Place ghost cookies behind tombstones.
 High Altitude (above 3500 ft.):
1.SEE package for directions.