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It’s ‘spooky’ how easy this Halloween Brownie Graveyard is to make. A fun treat decorated with Milano cookie headstones, brownie graves, chocolate skeletons and green grass frosting. This haunting edible treat could be a great centerpiece for your Halloween parties.

A graveyard made from brownie with a white chocolate skeleton and green frosting grass

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I mean, when it comes to the Halloween spooky treats that I have made, this one is up there and one of my favorite fun halloween recipes. A rectangle shaped brownie is the perfect shape for a 3 grave, graveyard. 

You can use my easy brownie recipe, your favorite brownie recipe, or use a box of brownie mix, the choice is yours. Halloween baking fun is all in the decorating. Everyone loves fudgy chocolate brownies, why not turn them into something fun? 

White chocolate skeletons in a brownie grave

How to Make a Brownie Graveyard

First, make the brownie dirt. Bake a rectangular brownie in a 9 x 13-inch (23 x 28 cm) baking dish (pictured below). Then, chisel out 3 graves from the top of the brownie. Use the leftover crumbs to create mounds of dirt. If you need more dirt, crumble Oreo cookies.


A large brownie with rectangles cut out

How to Make Chocolate Skeletons

Melt white chocolate and pour it into skeleton molds to set. The mold is inexpensive and available on Amazon or at craft stores. The bones come separate, so you can arrange them in different ways in the brownie dirt. If you find pre-made candy skeletons, use them instead.

A Halloween brownie graveyard made from brownie, green frosting grass and a cookie headstone

The tombstones/headstones are made using Pepperidge Farm Milano Cookies. Their shape are perfect for this and I made black icing of confectioners sugar and black food coloring to coat them and give them a ‘stone’ look. I then piped ‘RIP’ in melted chocolate. Any oval cookies will work if you can’t find Milano’s.

A closeup of the cookie headstone with RIP piped in chocolate

How to Make Grass Frosting

Green frosting (using white frosting that has green food color added) is piped using a 234 piping tip.

Graveyard halloween brownies are a fun activity that your kids can help make (and eat) and will have so much fun doing it.

Serving spooky graveyard brownies

You can either prepare the graveyard in the prepared pan, or turn it out onto a larger serving platter. Either way, they are both easy to transport and it can sit a room temperature until it’s time to slice this large pan of brownies.

Optional Additions

Add some gummy worms or candy pumpkins.

Leftover Brownies

If you have any leftovers, you can wrap them up individually in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 5 days.

Trick or treat yourself… Check out more of my Ghoulish goodies.

Spider Cupcakes, Halloween Popcorn, Halloween Skull and Dagger Cake, Scorpion Venom Punch, Halloween Blood Orange Martini and a Spooky Screwdriver.

A closeup showing the spiderweb cupcake liner, creamy frosting and large spider decoration
3 bowls of Halloween popcorn, some orange and some black
This Halloween skull and dagger cake is a fun and spooky centerpiece that will be sure to scare any Halloween partygoers. This cake can also serve as desserts for  your guests, if they dare to eat it.
Science beakers are used as serving vessels for Halloween Scorpion Venom Punch
2 martini stemmed glasses with blood orange juice decorated with a spider web and spider
Halloween spooky screwdriver is a fun adult cocktail for everyone's favorite scary holiday with a mocktail option so no one is left out of the frightening fun. Layers of grenadine, orange juice and black colored vodka.

If you’ve made these Halloween Graveyard Brownies, I would much appreciate a star rating in the recipe card along with a review.

If you’ve made this Halloween Brownie Graveyard, leave me a comment below and let me know how it turned out.

Yield: 24

Halloween Brownie Graveyard

White chocolate skeletons in a brownie grave

This Halloween brownie graveyard, is a fun and edible centerpiece for a spook-tacular party. A large brownie has graves cut out and then decorated with headstones and scary chocolate skeletons.

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • For the brownie:
  • 1 1/2 sticks (170 grams) unsalted butter
  • 16 ounces (453 grams) semi-sweet chocolate
  • 2 cups (400 grams) granulated sugar
  • 3 large eggs, room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 cups (296 grams) all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

For the tombstones:

  • 1 cup (200 grams) confectioners sugar
  • 4 teaspoons milk
  • Black food coloring
  • 3 oval shaped cookies
  • Semi-sweet chocolate, melted

For the skeletons:

  • 3 ounces (75 grams) white chocolate, melted
  • Skeleton bones candy mold
  • To assemble:
  • 1-16 ounce (450 gram) tub store-bought vanilla frosting
  • Green food coloring

Instructions

For the brownie:

  1. Preheat oven to 325°F/165°C.
  2. Grease a 9 x 13-inch (23 x 33 cm) glass baking dish and line with parchment paper.
  3. Using a double boiler, or heatproof bowl over saucepan of water, heat butter and chocolate over low heat until melted, stirring gently. Turn of heat when melted, but keep bowl over saucepan to keep mixture warm.
  4. Mix the sugar into the butter and chocolate.
  5. In a separate mixing bowl, lightly beat the eggs and vanilla together. Add the eggs to the chocolate mixture and stir until fully mixed. Add the flour and baking powder to the chocolate mixture and mix until you can no longer see any flour. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread evenly with a spatula.
  6. Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted.
  7. Allow to cool completely in the pan, then remove using parchment paper to lift out.
  8. For the tombstones:
  9. In a bowl, mix the confectioners sugar with the milk until smooth.
  10. Add black food coloring (I used a toothpick to add a very small amount), in small amounts until a stone grey color is achieved.
  11. Smooth over the cookies and allow to dry on a cooling rack.

For the skeletons:

  1. Pour the melted white chocolate into the skeleton mold and refrigerate until hardened then remove from mold.

To assemble:

  1. Place brownie on a cutting board.
  2. Cut 3 graves measuring 2 1/4 x 5 inch (6 x 13 cm) in the brownie evenly spaced.
  3. Using a fork, rake out the brownie so it crumbles like soil, put into a bowl. Mound the 'soil' back into the 'graves'. Arrange skeleton parts in and around the 'graves'.
  4. Using a sharp knife, cut a small area of brownie out at the head of the graves and insert cookies into the brownie.
  5. In a mixing bowl, add the frosting and a few drops of green food coloring to achieve the desired color.
  6. Add to a piping bag using piping tip 233 and pipe 'grass' around the graves.

Nutrition Information

Yield

14

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 186Total Fat 7gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 45mgSodium 81mgCarbohydrates 26gFiber 1gSugar 10gProtein 4g

This nutrition calculation is provided by Nutronix that is only a guideline and not intended for any particular diet.

© Janette
Cuisine: American / Category: Dessert