Gravestone cupcakes
You’ve probably seen gravestone cupcakes all over the internet, but they use things like Milano Cookies
ingredients:
chocolate cupcakes
chocolate frosting
2 cups Oreo cookies, crushed
Chocolate dipped cookies
white frosting
I like to use chocolate cupcakes and frosting when working with Halloween cupcakes. It’s dark and spoooky. Also yummy.
Take about 2 cups of Oreos, place them in a bag and smash them to death. This is when the Food Librarian would text me and tell me to ‘use a food processor you jerk’ but I’m like totally Amish so I just use a rolling pin to get out my aggression.
Dip the frosted cupcakes into the crushed Oreos – can you see the dirt-like resemblance? – and set them aside.
Tombstones can be ornate, and I was lucky enough to happen upon these chocolate dipped cookies at Target. I knew immediately that because of the shape and the decoration, that they’d be perfect for edible gravestones. Morbid? Maybe – but we are talking Halloween here.
Using a small piping tip, write the letters R.I.P. on your ‘faux’ tombstone.
I like to use a paring knife and cut a little space in the cupcake so that the ‘tombstone’ has an easy way to slide in. Place the tombstone cookie into the opening….
…and there you have it. The most perfectly ornate, edible gravestone. Death is deelish.
I don’t think I say, “Jerk” in my line about the glory of the food processor. But I will call you crazy for making all these damn cupcakes. 🙂 – mary