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Chocolate Snack Cake Bats

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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.

Chocolate snack cake bats with candy eyes and chocolate wings.

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).

Hostess Ho Ho's decorated to look like bats with chocolate wings and candy eyes.

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.

cute chocolate snack cake bats with chocolate wings and candy eyes on an orange background

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:

*NOTE: If you don’t have experience melting confectionery coating/candy melts, see my instructions in my Chocolate Making Tips tutorial (click here.)

Instructions:

Unwrap the chocolate cake roll and draw on a smile and two fangs using black food coloring. Then attach two candy eyes using candy melts. Pipe chocolate wings onto parchment paper then set the cake roll on top. Chill then remove.

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.

Chocolate Snack Cake Bats set on Halloween scrapbook paper.

  • Store in an airtight container until ready to serve.

Products used to make this project are available on Amazon.com
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Originally published August 23, 2012.

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Chocolate Snack Cake Bats
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
0 mins
 

Dress up store-bought chocolate snacks cakes using food coloring, chocolate, and candy eyes to create these cute Snack Cake Bats.

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chocolate, halloween, snack cakes
Servings: 8
Calories: 230 kcal
Author: Beth
Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
  1. Draw some bat wings on a piece of paper allowing enough room for the snack cake in between the wings.
  2. Draw a mouth and fangs on each snack cake using a black food coloring marker.

  3. Fill your squeeze bottle, disposable pastry bag, or zip-top bag with melted dark cocoa candy melts.

  4. Squeeze a small drop on the back of each candy eye and attach them to the snack cake just above the mouth.

  5. Slide the drawing of your wings under your parchment paper.
  6. Pipe the melted confectionery coating/candy melts over the drawing creating your wings.
  7. Pipe a strip of candy coating in the middle of the wings then set the snack cake on top of that.
  8. Refrigerate until the wings are set, about 3-5 minutes.

  9. Remove the snack cake bat from the refrigerator and carefully peel off the parchment paper.

  10. Repeat.

Recipe Notes

Store your bats in an airtight container for up to 1 week. 

Decorate snack cakes to look like puppies, bats, bears, bunnies, bumble bees, penguins, and more.

See more cute decorating ideas for snack cakes…

Be sure to check out all the Halloween recipes here on Hungry Happenings.

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Comments

    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      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!

      Reply

  2. Lorie

    I am pretty sure these are the snacks I will be making for my daughters preschool class this year!! As always…LOVE THEM!

    Reply

  3. carla

    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!

    Reply

    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      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!

      Reply

  4. carla

    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!

    Reply

  5. carla

    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!

    Reply

  12. Jocelyn

    OH.MY.WORD!!! Those are the cutest and best Halloween treat ever!!! Yup, I have to make those this year:-) Pinning happily!!!

    Reply

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