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Graveyard Buckets

These Graveyard Buckets are so cute and spooky for Halloween! Devil’s food cake mix gets layered with brightly colored white chocolate pudding before getting topped with crushed cookies for graveyard dirt and some spooky gravestones. Kids will love helping with this one and everyone will love eating them! Perfect to make ahead.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword cake, cookie, Halloween
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Cooling Time 2 hours
Total Time 3 hours
Servings 10 buckets
Calories 518kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

Cake Ingredients

  • 1 box Devil's Food cake 15.25 ounce box
  • 1 cup water use what the cake box calls for
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil use what the cake box calls for
  • 2 eggs use what the cake box calls for

Pudding Ingredients

Decorations

  • Neon green orange and purple food coloring
  • 1 ½ cups Oreo cookies crushed
  • Milano cookies
  • Halloween candy and sprinkles for decor

Instructions

Make & Bake the Cake

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a large bowl combine the cake mix and the water, oil and eggs the box calls for.
    1 box Devil's Food cake, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 2 eggs
    cake ingredients
  • Pour the cake batter into a prepared 9x13 baking dish.
    making cake
  • Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  • Slice into bite size squares.
  • Set aside to cool.

Make the Pudding

  • Meanwhile prepare the pudding.
  • Combine the pudding with the milk and whisk.
    2 boxes White chocolate instant pudding, 4 cups milk
  • Fold in the whipped topping.
    8 ounces Whipped Topping
    Making pudding
  • Separate the filling to 3 bowls and color each bowl with one of the food colorings.
    Neon green

Assemble & Decorate the Buckets

  • Into your buckets place a little of the cake.
    filling buckets with cake
  • Next a layer of one of the puddings.
    adding purple layer
  • Repeat the layers so you have 3 layers of pudding, each a different color.
    adding green frosting
  • Top each one evenly with the cookie crumbs.
    1 ½ cups Oreo cookies
    adding crushed oreo as dirt to cup
  • Cut the bottom of the Milano cookie off.
    Milano cookies
    Making cookie tombtones
  • Using food coloring and a little paint brush you can paint on the cookies R.I.P and such.
  • Decorate the buckets with the gravestones, candy and sprinkles.
    Halloween candy and sprinkles for decor
  • Refrigerate for an hour.
    a hand holding a halloween graveyard treat cup
  • Serve!
    Spoonful of a Halloween graveyard treat cup

Notes

●  Store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
●  You can use vanilla or cheesecake pudding if you like.
●  Decorate with little gummy worms or candy skulls too, anything to make these spooky.

Nutrition

Serving: 1bucket | Calories: 518kcal | Carbohydrates: 59g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 29g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 13g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 45mg | Sodium: 524mg | Potassium: 380mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 224IU | Calcium: 212mg | Iron: 5mg