It’s Halloween the holiday centered around sugar and spice and everything spooky!
While these chocolate swiss roll bat cakes are more cute than spooky, they are super easy to make – You don’t even need to turn on the oven and they are SO adorable! All you need is 3 ingredients to make them! Little Debbie Swiss Rolls, chocolate chips, and candy eyes. I also used an edible black marker to draw on a mouth that really completes the whole bat.
One of my favorite things to do when I was little was going trick or treating. I distinctly remember feeling sad when I was “too old” to indulge. What I didn’t realize at the time is that it wasn’t going to be over for me forever. I got the joy of reliving it when I had my daughter and then she too, got “too old”. Now that she is grown I have to admit I miss all the free candy, but I know that I’ll get another chance to grab a free KitKat when she decides to have her own children.
Until then, the next best thing about Halloween is making yummy goodies for friends and family so that they can enjoy them while carving their pumpkins (or eating them with a fork). Sometimes though, I get tired of making the same treat year after year and don’t feel like spending hours in the kitchen. So, this Halloween instead of spending a ton of time in the kitchen baking up all kinds of delicious treats, I’ve decided to go simple.
These no-bake Halloween treats are just one of the many easy Halloween recipes that I am rolling out this year. I’ve got some yummy pumpkin and ghost cupcakes, Halloween-themed marshmallows, and deliciously sweet and salty pretzels on my treats table and I couldn’t be happier with them.
I am making a change this Halloween. I am determined to spend more time enjoying my company and less time in the kitchen! I hope this recipe helps you do the same!
Equipment You’ll Need To Make Little Debbie Halloween Bat Snack Cakes
To make these chocolate bat snack cakes you are going to need an edible black marker to draw the face. Parchment paper, double broiler, pastry bag, squeeze bottle, or ziplock bag to pour the melted chocolate into.
Ingredients You’ll Need For Your No Bake Halloween Bat Treats
- 1 box of Little Debbie Swiss Rolls
- Black edible food coloring marker
- 1 ½ cups of milk chocolate chips
- Candy Eyeballs
How To Make These No-Bake Halloween Bat Cakes
Full directions and measurements for this dish are in the printable recipe card below. This is a quick walk-through on how to make it.
- Start by drawing bat wings on a piece of parchment paper. Be sure you leave enough room between each wing for the snack cake.
- Using the food marker, draw a mouth or some fangs.
- Over a double broiler melt the chocolate until it’s smooth. Transfer melted chocolate into a small squeeze bottle or pastry bag.
- Squeeze a small drop of chocolate onto the back of each eye and attach it to the snack cake right above the mouth
- Squeeze the melted chocolate in the outline for your bat wings and fill the whole inside. Pipe a strip of chocolate in the middle of the wings and set the snack cake on the top of the strip.
- Place bats into the fridge for about 5-10 minutes, allowing the wings to fully set.
- Remove from the fridge and carefully release from the parchment paper.
Chocolate Bat Snack Cakes FAQs
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- Apple Sangria Moonshine – Here is a fall flavor moonshine and sangria in one. This is one incredible boozy cocktail that is a hit all fall long.
Chocolate Swiss Roll Bat Cakes
Ingredients
- 1 box of Little Debbie Swiss Rolls
- Black edible food coloring marker
- 1 ½ cups of milk chocolate chips
- Candy eyes
Instructions
- Start by drawing bat wings on a piece of parchment paper. Be sure you leave enough room between each wing for the snack cake.
- Using the food marker, draw a mouth or some fangs.
- Over a double broiler melt the chocolate until it’s smooth. Transfer melted chocolate into a small squeeze bottle or pastry bag.
- Squeeze a small drop of chocolate onto the back of each eye and attach it to the snack cake right above the mouth
- Squeeze the melted chocolate in the outline for your bat wings and fill the whole inside. Pipe a strip of chocolate in the middle of the wings and set the snack cake on the top of the strip.
- Place bats into the fridge for about 5-10 minutes, allowing the wings to be fully set.
- Remove from the fridge and carefully release from the parchment paper.
- Devour!
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