Worms & Dirt Halloween Cupcakes with Printable Gravestone Markers
Today I’m sharing a simple yummy Worms and Dirt Halloween cupcake recipe with free printable gravestone markers.
We’re already a week into October and Halloween will be here before we know it. While I’m not sure whether we will be doing any trick-or-treating this year I know that my boys won’t want to just skip past the day altogether. They’ll definitely want to do something fun to mark the occasion, and these easy and delicious “worms and dirt” Halloween cupcakes fit the bill perfectly for a fun Halloween recipe and treat.
If you aren’t familiar with “worms and dirt” it’s basically delicious chocolate pudding topped with chocolate cookie crumbs and piled with gummy worms. As one of the special desserts at my boys’ favourite family restaurant, they love this delicious concoction of chocolatey gooey goodness.
These worms and dirt cupcakes are extra cute for Halloween because I baked them using a mini-loaf pan to make them look like graves piled high with fresh dirt oozing with gummy worms. I baked them in liners but removed them after the Halloween cupcakes had cooled as the brown cupcakes look more authentically like a grave for Halloween than the white liners did. If you could find brown or black mini-loaf pan liners you might be able to keep them on and still get the same fun Halloween look.
The free printable gravestone markers are available in my printable library – see below for instructions on how to access them for yourself.
This fun Halloween recipe is easy to make as I used a store bought boxed cake mix, boxed pudding mix, pre-crushed Oreo cookie crumbs, and candy gummy worms. As I mentioned I baked the cupcakes in a mini-loaf pan like this one…
The baking time ended up being right in the middle of the range listed on the box for regular cupcakes. Once they’d cooled, I spooned the pudding on top and then sprinkled on the Oreo cookie crumbs. I printed off and cut out the gravestone markers and then simply taped toothpicks to the back of them and pushed them into the ends of the “grave” cupcakes.
Worms & Dirt Halloween Cupcakes
A fun Halloween Treat idea, these worms & dirt Halloween cupcakes are quick and easy to make using boxed cake mix and jello pudding mix.
Ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1 box chocolate pudding mix
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup cookie crumb topping
- 16-32 gummy worms
Instructions
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Preheat the oven and prepare the chocolate cake mix according to the package instructions.
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Spoon the mix evenly into 16 mini loaf pans. You can use liners or spray the pan. Watch the pan carefully for baking time and use a toothpick to check for doneness.
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Make the pudding mix according to package instructions.
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Once the cakes are cool, spoon a layer of the pudding over top of the cakes evenly.
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Sprinkle the cookie crumbs over the tops of the cakes and pudding.
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Using a BBQ skewer or toothpick to create a small hole, insert 1-2 gummy worms into each cupcake.
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Print and cutout the gravestone markers and tape a toothpick to the back of each one. Insert into the cupcakes at one end to create a mini wormy graveyard.
Voila! A mini-graveyard of cupcakes perfect for Halloween.
Super easy, but so cute and Halloween-y!
Want to download these printable gravestone markers for your own cupcakes? I’ve uploaded them to my printable library!
To download any or all of these free printable thank you designs for yourself (as well as get access to ALL my free printables), simply subscribe below.
This series of four printables can be found in the folder entitled “Halloween Printables” and then “Gravestone Cupcake Markers” in my printable library.
If you are already an email subscriber you can access these in the printable library. The link to access it and the password are at the bottom of every email I send you. If you are a new subscriber, then after confirming your subscription you will be sent a link to my google drive with access to all of my free printables.
Please allow up to an hour to receive your email and instructions, and check your junk mail folder before contacting me. If you have any issues after waiting the hour and checking your junk mail, then email me at krista@thehappyhousie.com and I’ll send you some instructions. I hope you can use these and enjoy them!
Today I’ve joined some of my talented blogging friends who are also sharing their fun Halloween Recipe ideas with you! Just click on the links below the images to be taken directly to their posts.
Worms & Dirt Halloween Cupcakes with Printable Gravestone Markers at The Happy Housie
Cinderella Pumpkin Peanut Butter Balls at Cassie Bustamante
Black Cat Skeleton Cookies at Modern Glam
Ghost Sugar Cookies with 3 Minute Icing at Tatertots and Jello
Reese’s Pieces Cookies at Finding Silver Pennies
Spooky Eye Pies at Paint Me Pink
Chocolate Fudge Halloween Spider and Pumpkin Treats at Zevy Joy
Spooky Halloween Scream Raspberry Pie at A Pretty Life
Candy Corn Veggie Pizza at Clean & Scentsible
Halloween Monster Marshmallow Pops at Nick + Alicia
Kid Friendly Halloween Cheesecake Treats at She Gave it a Go
Oreo Cookie Spiders at This is Our Bliss
Spooky Halloween Snack Mix at The Handmade Home
Pink Candy Apples at Life is a Party
How to Decorate a Store Bought Cake for Halloween at My Sweet Savannah
Halloween Mini Pumpkin Tarts at Jennifer Maune
This is so fun! What a great treat for a halloween party! Thanks for letting me participate in your seasonal simplicity series. I love seeing all of the ideas! Pinned 🙂
xoxo
Ok, my boys would “die” for these!! How cute! Thanks so much for sharing – printing now 😉
This is so adorable. Super cute for the whole family! LOVE Halloween and having so much fun seeing everyone’s recipes and creativity. xx
Krista! These are the perfect treats! What a wonderful way to celebrate Halloween and those graveyard signs are spooktacular!
Haha! Love the graveyard markers. I’d definitely be a death by chocolate!
these are so cute, krista! love the shape you used- perfection!