These cute Chocolate Snack Cake Bats are so much fun to make and eat. Kids of all ages will go batty for these chocolate vanilla cake roll Halloween treats.
It is so easy to dress up a store-bought snack cake for Halloween.
I love making cakes from scratch, but sometimes I just want a quick and easy dessert to serve for a holiday, so I use snack cakes instead.
I’ve shared tutorials to make Chocolate Werewolf Snack Cakes, Black Cat Snack Cakes, Snack Cake Penguins, and more (see the complete list at the bottom of this post).
Today I’m going to show you how to make these cute Snack Cake Bats.
As with most of my other snack cake crafts, these chocolate bats are pretty simple to make using chocolate coated cake rolls, dark cocoa candy melts, candy eyes, and a black food coloring marker.
So let’s get started.
Chocolate Snack Cake Bats
You’ll need:
- 1 chocolate cake roll per bat (Little Debbie Swiss Rolls, Hostess Ho Ho’s, or Drakes Yodels)
- black food coloring marker
- melted dark confectionery coating/candy melts (about 1 ounce per bat)*
- 2 candy eyes per bat
Supplies:
- Squeezit Mold painter (squeeze bottle), disposable pastry bag or zip-top bag
- parchment paper-lined baking sheet
*NOTE: If you don’t have experience melting confectionery coating/candy melts, see my instructions in my Chocolate Making Tips tutorial (click here.)
Instructions:
Decorate a snack cake bat.
- Draw some bat wings on a piece of paper allowing enough room for the snack cake in between the wings.
- Draw a mouth and fangs on each snack cake using a black food coloring marker.
- Fill your squeeze bottle, disposable pastry bag, or zip-top bag with melted confectionery coating.
- Squeeze a small drop on the back of each candy eye and attach them to the snack cake just above the mouth.
- Slide the drawing of your wings under your parchment paper.
- Pipe the melted confectionery coating/candy melts over the drawing creating your wings.
- Pipe a strip of candy coating in the middle of the wings then set the snack cake on top of that.
- Refrigerate until the wings are set, about 3-5 minutes.
- Remove and carefully peel off the parchment paper.
- Store in an airtight container until ready to serve.
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Originally published August 23, 2012.
Dress up store-bought chocolate snacks cakes using food coloring, chocolate, and candy eyes to create these cute Snack Cake Bats.
- 8 chocolate cake rolls (Little Debbie Swiss Rolls, Hostess Ho Ho's, or Drakes Yodels)
- 1 black food coloring marker
- 10 ounces melted dark cocoa candy melts (or dark almond bark or melting wafers)
- 16 candy eyes
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Draw some bat wings on a piece of paper allowing enough room for the snack cake in between the wings.
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Draw a mouth and fangs on each snack cake using a black food coloring marker.
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Fill your squeeze bottle, disposable pastry bag, or zip-top bag with melted dark cocoa candy melts.
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Squeeze a small drop on the back of each candy eye and attach them to the snack cake just above the mouth.
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Slide the drawing of your wings under your parchment paper.
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Pipe the melted confectionery coating/candy melts over the drawing creating your wings.
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Pipe a strip of candy coating in the middle of the wings then set the snack cake on top of that.
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Refrigerate until the wings are set, about 3-5 minutes.
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Remove the snack cake bat from the refrigerator and carefully peel off the parchment paper.
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Repeat.
Store your bats in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
See more cute decorating ideas for snack cakes…
- Snack Cake Pups – Twinkie Dogs
- Chocolate Snack Cake Bats
- Beaker Twinkie
- Teddy Bear Snack Cakes
- Twinkie Bunnies
- Kaboom Cakes
- Bumble Bee Twinkies
- Mickey Mouse Ding Dongs
- Snack Cake Penguins
- Snack Cake Cats
Be sure to check out all the Halloween recipes here on Hungry Happenings.
These are adorable, Beth! Such a great and yummy idea!
i love this!cool idea!;)
We made them! (and credited you) http://keep-up-with-the-jones-family.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/vampire-chocobats.html
Gotta say, these are pretty darn cute! I can imagine them being a hit at an elementary school Halloween party (or any Halloween party). So creative… great job. 🙂
Adorable!
Fantastic idea – can't wait to make these!!!
So stinkin cute and perfect for a Halloween party. If you get a chance I would love for you to come link up your idea at my Pin Party.
http://sarahdawndesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/pintastic-monday-link-party-10.html#.UGCZVK4-WnB
I loved your blog, I am a volunteer halloween party, I will use your ideas this year, thank you.
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Ahhhh these are so adorbs!!!
2 of my favorite things for one of my favorite holidays. Bats, Ho-Ho's and Halloween. Perfect!
These are so great, I would love it if you would come link up on I Freakin did it Friday's @ Miss Information.
My only problem would not be eating all the snack cakes before I got them made into bats 🙂
Bats usually give me the creeps, but not these! Cutest bats ever:)
Very cute bats, I'd love to make these for my kids for a lunchtime treat! Thanks for linking!
These are so cute! You are very creative! We'd love if you'd link up to our Countdown to Fall link party! Hope to see you there! Have a great week! 🙂
http://dixie-n-dottie.blogspot.com/2012_08_27_archive.html
So cute! Would be great for a Halloween party or fall festival! Kathy Penney @ Pinner Takes All
Holy crap you can buy Ho Ho's on Amazon and have them delivered to your house?
Those are super cute … my kids would love them! I'm pinning.
This is such a cute idea. It will make a perfect Halloween snack.
These are adorable!! I would love for you to link up to Tasty Thursdays at The Mandatory Mooch. The party is still live for a few more days. http://mandatorymooch.blogspot.com/2012/08/tasty-thursdays-5.html
Thanks,
Nichi
Such a cute idea. Really pleased I found your site, it is so inspirational!
OH.MY.WORD!!! Those are the cutest and best Halloween treat ever!!! Yup, I have to make those this year:-) Pinning happily!!!
Couldn't wait to see these little bats – adorable idea!
I was just looking at ho-ho's thinking…I need an excuse to buy them. Now I have one!
What a fantastic creation! My son would love that.
you are my inspiration!! This is beyond cool.
oh so cute! (but you're scaring me, you're on halloween already??)
So darn cute!!!!
you're super savvy to link to needed items on Amazon. love that you get a piece of that action! adore all of your treats. thanks for sharing!
you're super smart to link to products needed on amazon (and i love that you get a piece of the action). savvy lady! love your treats, thanks for sharing!
you're super smart to link to products needed on amazon (and i love that you get a piece of the action). savvy lady! love your treats, thanks for sharing!
Thanks Carla, I want everyone to be able to find the items needed to create my projects, and indeed it is nice to benefit from it also!
I am pretty sure these are the snacks I will be making for my daughters preschool class this year!! As always…LOVE THEM!
Glad to hear it! I'm sure the kids will love them =)
These are so incredibly cute! I have such a weakness for ho hos and halloween things- I love this
Mal @ The Chic Geek
I have to admit that I've personally made a big dent in the supply of Ho Ho's and Swiss Rolls. I love 'em too!