Spooky Eyes Halloween Cake
This Spooky Eyes Halloween Cake is so cute and fun to make. Homemade chocolate cake with a rich Oreo buttercream frosting, and the spooky eyes take just minutes to make!
Ingredients
Chocolate Cake
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 3/4 cups flour all-purpose
- 3/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup water boiling
Frosting
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 pound powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch salt
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 8 Oreo cookies crushed
Decorations
- Oreo Cookies
- Junior Mints
- Mini Oreo Cookies
- Brown M&M'S
- Black Licorice Nibs
Instructions
Cake
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 9x13 cake pan and dust with cocoa powder. In a large mixing bowl, combine sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda ansd salt and whisk together. Add eggs, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract and beat with a hand mixer until well combined, scraping bottom of bowl as needed. Slowly add boiling water and mix until combined. Bake 35-40 minutes. Let cake cool completly before frosting.
Frosting
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In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat butter and powdered sugar until smooth. Add vanilla extract, salt and heavy cream and mix until smooth. Stir in crushed Oreos. Reserve a small amount of frosting to use as adhesive for the cookie eyes.
Spooky Eyes Decorations
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While the frosting is still soft, carefully separate Oreo cookies and place them cream side up on top of cake. Use a small dab of frosting to adhere Junior Mints to full sized Oreo cookies and M&M'S to mini Oreo cookies.
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If adding eyebrows, cut black Nibs into quarters length wise and place over eyes.
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Store cake covered. If making ahead, frost cake and wait to add eye decoration until day of serving.
Recipe Notes
For this recipe, I used a hand mixer for the chocolate cake batter and a stand mixer for the frosting. You can use a hand mixer or a stand mixer for either one interchangeably.