Gingerbread Graveyard Dessert that's a nice ending to a Halloween dinner. Decorate these cemetery desserts with homemade tombstone cookies. A delicious and easy-to-make Halloween dessert with chocolate mousse.

A black glass filled with chocolate mousse and decorated with a zombie hand, graveyard cookie and sugar roses on a black background

Gingerbread Graveyard Dessert

You may think that this dessert is a bit tricky, but you can score most of it in the supermarket and a good baking supply shop. You only need to bake the cookies yourself, but they are also ready within half an hour. And then you can dig your graves. Well, figuratively, then.

Tips

Speculaas spices: A typical Dutch spice. You can easily make it yourself with this speculaas spice mix recipe.
Zombie hands and sugar roses: Are for sale in (online) cooking stores. These are from Wilton.

Graveyard dessert with gingerbread cookies in a black glass. Some roses and a zombie hand comes out of the dirt. A black background

Did you make this recipe? Tag #byandreajanssen via Instagram. I enjoy seeing what your creation looks like. Video recipes can be found on my YouTube channel. And don't forget to save the recipes on Pinterest so you can easily find them next time!

📖 Recipe

a square photo with two black glasses with skulls filled with chocolate dirt, zombiehands, roses and RIP graveyard cookies

Gingerbread Graveyard Dessert

5 of 39 votes

Printen Pin Recept

Prep Time: 30

Cook Time: 10

Total Time: 40

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Author: Andréa

Servings: 4 persons

Author: Andréa

Ingredients

Tombstone gingerbread cookies

1 stick butter room temperature
¼ cup dark brown sugar
1¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon speculaas spice mix

Halloween dessert

7 oz. chocolate mousse
8 tablespoons Chocolate sprinkles
1 box decoration kit zombie hand Wilton
8 sugar decoration roses Wilton
4 Tombstone gingerbread cookies (made above)

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients you need per step are listed below the step in Italic

Instructions

Tombstone gingerbread cookies

Preheat the oven to 320 °F or 290 °F
Cover a baking tray with baking paper.
Beat the butter with the sugar until it is soft and creamy (2 minutes).
1 stick butter, ¼ cup dark brown sugar
Stir in the flour and speculaas spices and mix for 1 minute.
1¼ cup all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon speculaas spice mix
Wrap the dough in plastic foil and let it rest for 30 minutes in the fridge (that way, the dough will stick less).
Roll out the dough to a thickness of approximately ¼ inch (0.5 cm) and use a tombstone cookie cutter to cut out shapes from the dough. If you don't have one, cut the shapes out of the dough with a sharp knife. Make a text on the tombstone with a satay stick, such as R.I.P.
Put the cookies on the baking tray.
Bake the cookies in the oven for 12 minutes.
Allow cooling on a rack.

Halloween dessert

Spoon the chocolate mousse into four glasses.
7 oz. chocolate mousse
Top the mousse with dark brown chocolate sprinkles.
8 tablespoons Chocolate sprinkles
Take the zombie's hand and stick it in the middle of the mousse.
1 box decoration kit zombie hand
Add the tombstone cookie to the back of the glass.
4 Tombstone gingerbread cookies
Dress the tombstone with red roses.
8 sugar decoration roses

Notes

1. Sugar Decorations: You can get the , sugar roses, and cookie cutter at bakeries or online.

2. Chocolate Mousse: Want to make it easy on yourself? Buy a ready-made chocolate mousse at the supermarket. But this recipe for a simple chocolate mousse is delicious and easy to make too!

3. Storage
Once the Halloween Desserts are decorated, they don't keep very long (several hours). Store in a fridge.