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
Ingredients
- 1 chocolate cake roll per bat (Little Debbie Swiss Rolls, Hostess Ho Ho's, or Drakes Yodels)
- black food coloring marker
- melted dark compound chocolate (made with palm kernel oil (known as Candy Melts, Ghirardelli Melting Wafers, Merckens Coating, almond bark, or confectionery coating) - You used about 1 ounce per bat.
- 2 candy eyes per bat
NOTE: If you don't have experience melting confectionery coating/candy melts, see my instructions in my Chocolate Making Tips tutorial.
Supplies
- Squeezit Mold painter (squeeze bottle), disposable pastry bag or zip-top bag
- parchment paper-lined baking sheet
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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.
Storage
Store in an airtight container until ready to serve.
Recipe
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.
Related Recipes
See more cute decorating ideas for snack cakes...
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- 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
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kristi dominguez
These are adorable, Beth! Such a great and yummy idea!
Megan Cromes
i love this!cool idea!;)
Sara-Jayne
We made them! (and credited you) http://keep-up-with-the-jones-family.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/vampire-chocobats.html
brighteyedbaker
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. 🙂
KnittyKaty
Adorable!
Sugar Baby
Fantastic idea - can't wait to make these!!!
Sarah
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
Simplesmente Silvinha (Simply Silvia)
I loved your blog, I am a volunteer halloween party, I will use your ideas this year, thank you.
http://gastronomianossadecadadia.blogspot.com.br/2011/10/nosso-jantar-foi-um-sucesso.html
Aimee @ ShugarySweets
Ahhhh these are so adorbs!!!
Tiffany@Fizzy Party!
2 of my favorite things for one of my favorite holidays. Bats, Ho-Ho's and Halloween. Perfect!
Kelley Wilson
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 🙂
Sue
Bats usually give me the creeps, but not these! Cutest bats ever:)