Worm Cake

  4.3 – 24 reviews  • Holiday

a favorite among children in our home. Even adults adore them!

Servings: 24
Yield: 24 cupcakes

Ingredients

  1. 1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
  2. 3 cups chocolate cookie crumbs
  3. 1 (16 ounce) package prepared chocolate frosting
  4. 1 (16 ounce) package gummi worms

Instructions

  1. Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Pour batter into cupcake pans and bake as directed on cake mix box. Let cupcakes cool thoroughly before frosting.
  2. Spread cupcakes lightly with chocolate icing. Sprinkle cookie crumbs on top.
  3. Cut gummi worms in half (as many as you like). Put icing onto cut end of the worms and stick to the top of cupcakes. You can use as few or as many as will fit on each cupcake. Let icing set for 10 minutes and then enjoy.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 300 kcal
Carbohydrate 54 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Protein 4 g
Saturated Fat 2 g
Sodium 296 mg
Sugars 34 g
Fat 9 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Mary Alexander
I put the worms on top, then frosting, the dipped in Oreo crumbs! Perfect!
Ian Bush
Great Halloween material. We made a “scary” dessert table and I brought this cupcakes. The idea is cute and simple to make. They looked yummy, tasted yummy, I loved them. I didn’t had cookie crumbs so I used sprinkles.
Ebony Hill
Very cute idea came out awesome!!
Michael Anderson
Good. Cute idea.
Jerry Castillo
Super cute. Very festive!
Erin Perkins
Easy to make but the crumbs can be a mess, worth it though 🙂
Jeremy Hess
Good, but try making it from the beginning(no cake batter, made by self) other than that good job! I bet they taste amazing!!!!!!;P
Amanda Adams
I remember making these for parties in my elementary school years. My classmates loved them and I hope to make them for my younger sister and children. 🙂
Paul Kelley
I love this recipe, it was a hit for my sons kindergarten class. The only thing I changed was I made vanilla frosting and used a little green food coloring, so to make the frosting bright green. I also added the fake plastic fangs to stick on the top. The kids loved it!
Maria Bailey
that is cool but it still needs alittle work on it
Robert King
I did this for my nephews 7th birthdays party (at school), but before baking I put a 1/2 a candy worm in each cupcake. Then after they cooked and cooled I frosted them with green frosting (so each cup cake looked like an apple) then I put a worm on top of each one kind of like a worm crawling out of the apple. This made it more fun for the kids. It was Kind of like they were eating an apple with a worm in it.
Nancy Collins
Made this for my son’s birthday last year and he loved it. Nothing fancy but it’s quick, easy, and fun 🙂
Caleb Johnson
this is a nice recipe but i used different mix i used strawberry. my classmates loved it.
Laura Harris
I love this recipe i’ve used it since i was little. kids love to help cause it’s easy. i like to put crushed oreos on top it looks more like soil. 🙂
Madison Woodard
I did not care for this at all.
Jessica Summers
Served these at the pre school. The little tikes loved them.
Kyle Jacobson
So simple and so fun. Kids love these. I also like to sprinkle crushed up oreos on top to resemble dirt. Thanks!
Andrew Lucas
I used this recipe with a vanilla/chocolate swirl cake mix and it was really, really good! Everyone at the Halloween party commented on how cute the cake was and they especially LOVED the taste. You can guarantee that this will be my signature Halloween dish. Thank you!
Catherine Bernard
Good recipe. I made it for my son’s Bambi/Woodland party at school and the kids loved them (I thought they were tasty too). I did have a lot of the dirt topping left over though.
Tina Herrera
These are cute. I made them for a kids’ Spring party. I used two worms on each cupcake — 1 across the middle, and 1 cut in half with each half sticking in opposite sides of the cupcake (looks like a worm going in under and coming out from under the other worm). The kids thought they were “cool.” My cake mix yielded 18 cupcakes. I barely used 1 cup of “dirt” crumbs.
Michelle Copeland
I made this for a Halloween party at my daughters pre-school and the kids thought they were the coolest cupcakes ever. I did not personally try one but this will be a traditional Halloween treat for the kids in my house!

 

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