Coffin Cake
2 boxes (16 ounce each) pound cake mix
1 roll (1 pound 2 ounces) slice and bake refrigerated sugar cookies
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 cans (16 ounces each) vanilla ready-to-spread frosting
2 tablespoons Hershey's cocoa
8 Hershey's Cookies 'n Crhme candy bars (1.55 ounces each)
Reese's peanut butter cups (miniatures)
York peppermint patties (miniatures)
Rolo caramels in milk chocolate
Hershey's Kisses chocolates
Hershey's Hugs chocolates
Peter Paul Mounds and Almond Joy candy bars (snack size)
Twizzlers candy
Kit Kat wafer bars
Reese's Pieces candy
Twizzlers Pull-n-Peel candy
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease one 13 by 9 by 2-inch baking pan.
Prepare and bake both pound cake mixes together in one pan as
directed on package for 13 by 9 by 2-inch baking pan. (After baking
cake, leave oven on to bake cookie "lid").
Cool cake 10 minutes on wire rack; invert cake onto wire rack and
remove pan. Cool completely. With clean hands or wooded spoon, stir
together cookie dough and flour until well combined.
On lightly greased cookie sheet, roll out cookie dough to 12x8-inch
rectangle. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool
slightly. With large spatula, carefully remove cookie to wire rack.
Cool completely.
Place cake on large tray. With knife, mark 1-inch from each edge of
cake. With fork, scoop out center of cake to within 1-inch from
sides and bottom. Unwrap Cookies 'n'Creme bars. Line inside of
"coffin" with bar pieces.
Place frosting in bowl. Stir in cocoa until well blended. Frost
entire outside of coffin and top of cookie lid. Fill center of
coffin with assorted wrapped candies. Unwrap some candies and
decorate lid. Prop up one side of lid with wooded skewer or popsicle
sticks wrapped with Pull-n-Peel candy
CANDY CRITTERS Create "spooktacular" critter by using products such
as Hershey's Nuggets candy. York peppermint patties miniatures.
Hershey's Kisses chocolates or Reese's peanut butter cups as bodies.
Then add Twizzlers candy legs. Pull-n-Peel candy whiskers and
Reeses's Pieces candy eyes |