Graveyard Treat
Beneath a layer of ghostly whipped topping lies a chilling graveyard of cookie-crumb earth, with layers of creamy, eerie cheese filling and a tombstone of cookies marking the final resting place of your diet. Serve this spine-chilling dessert at your Halloween party, if you dare, and watch as your guests unearth the delicious secrets hidden within!
Yield
12 servingsPrep
60 minCook
0 minReady
4 hrs
Chocolate wafers and crumbs
You can use Oreos or store-bought chocolate wafers for your chocolate wafer crumbs, but we like to make our own, which can be shaped as desired or baked and whizzed up in a food processor to make homemade chocolate wafer crumbs.
Our favorite recipe is Slice & Bake Chocolate Wafter Cookies, which we keep in our freezer so they're ready to bake at a moment's notice.
Reduced sugar
Use sugar-free orange Jello and substitute your favorite sugar substitute for the sugar in the cream cheese mixture or elsewhere in the recipe.
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 ¼ | cups |
chocolate wafer crumbs
divided |
* |
| ½ | cup |
sugar
divided |
|
| ½ | cup |
margarine
melted, (or butter) |
|
| 8 | ounces |
cream cheese
cubed and softenend |
|
| 12 | ounces |
whipped topping, prepared
thawed |
|
| 2 | cups |
water
boiling |
|
| 170 | grams |
gelatin, unflavored
orange flavour, (or two packages) |
*
|
| ½ | cup |
water
cold |
|
| 1 | x |
ice cubes
|
*
|
| 1 | x |
oreo cookies
oval or rectangular shaped |
*
|
| 1 | x |
icing for decorating
|
* |
| 1 | x |
candy corn
or candy pumpkins |
* |
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 532 | ml |
chocolate wafer crumbs
divided |
* |
| 118 | ml |
sugar
divided |
|
| 118 | ml |
margarine
melted, (or butter) |
|
| 231.2 | ml/g |
cream cheese
cubed and softenend |
|
| 346.8 | ml/g |
whipped topping, prepared
thawed |
|
| 473 | ml |
water
boiling |
|
| 1.7E+2 | grams |
gelatin, unflavored
orange flavour, (or two packages) |
*
|
| 118 | ml |
water
cold |
|
| 1 | x |
ice cubes
|
*
|
| 1 | x |
oreo cookies
oval or rectangular shaped |
*
|
| 1 | x |
icing for decorating
|
* |
| 1 | x |
candy corn
or candy pumpkins |
* |
Directions
Mix 2 cups of the chocolate wafer cookie crumbs, ¼ cup of the sugar, and the melted butter or margarine with a fork in a 13 by 9 inch (33 x 22 cm) baking pan until the crumbs are well moistened.
Press the crumb mixture firmly onto the bottom of the pan to form a crust.
Refrigerate.
Beat cream cheese and remaining ¼ cup sugar in a medium bowl with a wire whisk until smooth.
Gently fold in ½ of the whipped topping. Spread evenly over the crust.
Stir boiling water into gelatin added to a medium bowl for a couple of minutes or until the gelatin is completely dissolved.
In a 2 cup measure, combine cold water and ice cubes to make 1½ cups.
Add to gelatin; stir until slightly thickened.
Remove any remaining ice.
Spoon gelatin over the cream cheese layer.
Refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours or until firm.
Spread the remaining whipped topping over the gelatin just before serving; sprinkle with remaining ¼ cup cookie crumbs to create the "dirt".
Decorate chocolate wafer sandwich cookies with icing as desired to make "tombstones."
Stand the tombstones on top of the dessert with candies to resemble a graveyard.
Cut into squares to serve.
