Hi everyone! I originally shared this recipe over a year ago, but with Halloween a mere 11 days away, I thought you might appreciate a semi-spooky Halloween dessert. Honestly, I’ve hardly done any preparation for Halloween this year (aside from making these spider cookies last month). Our neighborhood is decorated with Jack o’Lanterns, spooky ghosts, and faux-spiderweb covered hedges, and all I have are three miniature pumpkins rotting outside our front window. Not exactly festive. I thought that the very least I could do to try and get into the Halloween spirit was resurrect these Ghost in the Graveyard Halloween Dessert Shooters, a (non-alcoholic) chocolate cheesecake treat.
My mom used to make “Ghosts in the Graveyard” when I was a kid, but it was done a little differently. The classic dessert is made in a 13×9 pan (at least, it was in our house), the graveyard constructed of pudding and topped with cookie crumbs, cookie tombstones, and ghosts. I remember planting the Milano cookies in the pudding and then strategically carving out my slice of the “graveyard” so that I got both tombstone and ghost. Given my affinity for mini desserts, and especially for dessert shooters, I individualized the dessert into adorable single-serving-sized portions.
I made these treats from scratch mimicking the same chocolate filling that I used for my sister’s birthday cookie dough pie, only using a heavier portion of chocolate and stirring in crumbled Oreos for a “dirtier” look. It may seem like a lot of steps because you have to melt the chocolate separately, wait for it to cool, and whip the heavy cream at two different points, but it’s really pretty simple for a from-scratch Halloween dessert. It’s worth every extra dish, but I also included notes in case you wanted to speed things up a bit and substitute Cool Whip (I’ve done this a time or two myself, but it’s definitely worth the extra effort to make from scratch!!).
Enjoy (and try not to look to closely at my ghosts in the background, they are sad specimen indeed)! Full recipe just below the video.
Looking for another Halloween Dessert? Check out my adorable Spooky Spider Cookies!
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I originally posted this recipe 10/3/16, updated text and re-published 10/20/17 PIN IT:
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