Halloween Chocolate Tunnel Cake is a moist, from scratch, dark chocolate cake filled with a tunnel of orange cheesecake center and drizzled with colorful cream cheese frosting. Just the right amount of festive and spooky for your Halloween party!
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It’s my anniversary! My 8th anniversary already.
I always associate our marriage with Halloween because we got engaged on Halloween.
So, today I’m sharing this cake that I made as part of Cupcake Diaries’ 30 Days of Halloween.
It may seem early for Halloween but these Halloween Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies have been crazy popular on Pinterest and Facebook for weeks so I don’t think it’s too early.
I actually made this cake three times before I felt like I got it just right. I used my favorite from-scratch chocolate cake recipe. If you’d rather use a box mix, go for it, just try to get a dark chocolate one so you have a black cake instead of brown.
The cream cheese filling is like having a cheesecake inside your chocolate cake – the best of both worlds.
The cream cheese frosting/glaze is the perfect amount of sweetness to offset the cream cheese filling. Plus, I colored it orange, green, and purple to make it Halloween-esque so it looks really pretty. You can skip the food coloring and it’ll be equally delicious (though not quite as eye catching).
Tips to making this Halloween Chocolate Tunnel Cake a success:
- Use Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa powder (or your favorite dark chocolate cocoa powder) to get the cake really dark (black).
- I used the Wilton Color Right Performance Kit for dying the cheese cake and cream cheese frosting. I love the variety of colors you can achieve.
- Make sure to use non-stick spray so your bundt cake slides out easily.
- Feel free to use a box mix if you have one on hand & don’t feel like making the cake from scratch.
- Keep any extra cake covered and stored in the fridge.
Supplies you may need:
- Food coloring kit – this is the one I used for this cake & the cream cheese swirl brownies
- Bundt pan
- Cake cutter
Other Halloween treats you make like:
- Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies
- Brownie Bottom Halloween Cupcakes
- Mummy Jalapeno Poppers
- Black Cat Pudding Cups
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I’ve never been much for dressing up but I do love Halloween decorations and treats. There are some really cute and delicious looking recipes in the collection & it’s only halfway through – I can’t wait to see the rest of the month!
Thanks so much for participating in the series again and sharing this awesome cake recipe! I can’t wait to try it!
Thank you for organizing & having me again!!
Could I use cherry pie filling instead of the cream cheese filling? Most of the people around me don’t like cream cheese but I have the cherry filling on hand…
I’m not sure, you might want to google “cherry filled cake” or something like that. It’d be an entirely different recipe 🙂
How long does it last if its refrigerated?
I’d say 3-5 days.
This looks awesome and SO Halloween 🎃!
My kids and I bake every weekend bc quarantine life cannot go anywhere and they love to bake.
Question: how’d you make the filling oil like a witch on a broomstick?!
Looks so yummy 😋 cannot wait to try it
Lol, you’re the first person to say that but I see it now! Totally unintentional & guarantee I couldn’t replicate it:)
Can I use devils food cake mix instead of homemade? If so should I use 1 or 2 boxes.
Hi. That should work. One is fine.
This recipe was amazing and so fun to make! 😃
Thank you!