From the Hosting SOS Reel
The cake didn’t make it.
The party still can.
Meet the Graveyard Board. The broken layers become dirt, cookies become tombstones, and suddenly the whole thing looks intentional.
Start with a fallen cake, a store-bought chocolate cake or brownies. Save the layout, gather the little extras, and give it fifteen minutes.
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A cake with a new job
Gather the graveyard.
- The surviving cake or brownies
- Chocolate cake crumbs for dirt
- Four shortbread cookies
- Gummy worms
- Three large marshmallows
- Three strawberries
- Candy eyes
- Pretzel sticks
- Small candy pumpkins
- A little orange frosting
A rectangular board gives everything a home. Keep the cake toward the back, the ghosts on the left and the strawberries on the right. Build the pretzel fence along the front.
Five rescue moves · fifteen minutes
Rest in pieces.
- Crumble it0–4 min
The fallen layers are dirt; keep the best ones as a hill.
- Tombstones4–7 min
Stand the cookies up, pushed in a third of the way.
- Worms7–9 min
Half in, half out. They’re crawling out of the crumbs.
- Eyes on everything9–14 min
A dab of frosting glues them. A marshmallow plus two eyes is a ghost.
- Name it14–15 min
Like you meant it. The Graveyard Board has arrived.
Next time: let the cake cool all the way before you frost it.
The next party can have a plan
Host Like It’s 2006,
Serve Like It’s 2026.
The full kit has seventeen boards for the holidays and every party after, with shopping lists for 4, 8 or 12, rough costs and simple timed builds.
Take a look at the kit