Halloween Graveyard Cake Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter
1 cup water
1/4 cup baking cocoa
1/2 cup sour cream
2 eggs

Frosting:
1/4 cup butter or margarine
3 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Halloween Graveyard Cake Decorations:

18 cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies
9 cream-filled oval vanilla sandwich cookies
1 cup marshmallow sauce
1 small package Nutter Butter cookies
Green and brown decorator’s icing or tube gel
Pumpkin candies and gummy worms, optional

Halloween Graveyard Cake Directions:

In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt; set aside. In a saucepan over medium heat, combine butter, water and cocoa; bring to a boil. Add to flour mixture; beat well. Beat in sour cream and eggs.

Pour into a greased 9-in. x 13-in. x 2-in. baking pan. Bake at 350 F for 35-38 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a saucepan, combine butter, milk and cocoa; bring to a boil. Remove from the heat and stir in sugar and vanilla. Pour over the warm cake. Crumble chocolate cookies and sprinkle over frosting while still warm to give the appearance of dirt. Cool.

For tombstones, use icing to decorate vanilla cookies with names or faces of the ‘deceased’ and place on cake. For ghosts, you can cover the nutterbutter cookies with marshmallow cream and use icing to add eyes and mouths as desired.

Just before serving, add pumpkins and gummy worms if desired.

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Gross Halloween Snack Mix Ingredients:

*Caramels
* Candy Corn
* Gummy Worms
* Raisins
* Mini Marshmellows
* Pretzel Sticks
* Cheerios or Chex Cereal
* Nuts (be sure no one has peanut allergies)
* Tubed Gel Frosting in Red or Green
* Black and Orange paper cups

Gross Halloween Snack Mix Directions:

Give each child a paper cup and let them scoop the ingredients into their bowl mixing and creating as they go along. For that extra creepy look drizzle some red or green gel frosting on top of the mixture.

**For some extra activity fun you can have some markers, glue, googly eyes, feathers, etc. available for the kids to decorate their cups or bags before they add their Gross Halloween Snack Mix.

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Where Did “Trick or Treat” Come From?

Perhaps one of the most popular and widespread Halloween traditions is ringing the doorbell and saying “trick or treat” in exchange for candy. This is done by millions of children every year, but few could tell you where this practice comes in the history of Halloween. It was not always a part of the holiday.

For thousands of years, Halloween was merely a blend of pagan rituals and Christian customs. Ceremonies and festivals were held on the day, and people did dress up in costumes. However, it wasn’t until the second half of the nineteenth century that these traditions, along with others, began to make it to America. An influx of new immigrants meant new traditions, and these contributed to how Halloween is celebrated today.

“Trick or treat” was one such tradition brought from England. During all Souls’ Day parades, the poor would beg for food. More fortunate families would give the poor “soul cakes” in return for the promise that the poor would pray for their dead relatives. This idea eventually trickled down to children, and led to the Halloween tradition we know and love today.

A Group Gathering

By the 1950’s, Halloween and trick-or-treating had become a fun way for communities to spend time together. Halloween parties became popular, and many neighborhoods would go trick-or-treating together. Trick-or-treating was an inexpensive activity that people could bond over. Though by this time the history of Halloween had already been forgotten the traditions continued to grow.

The Tricks and Treats of Today

Halloween has changed very much throughout its long history. While as little as 50 years ago, people handed out candy apples and caramel corn, today the goodies typically consist of Butterfingers and Hershey’s Bars. Yet, despite the change that has occurred throughout the history of Halloween, the traditions that began the holiday are still remembered by a few select people—and it is their responsibility to make sure that it is never forgotten.

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