This is a Jack Skellington cake made with a Cherry Chip cake with vanilla frosting. I made two 9″ round cakes, staked them and frosted with the vanilla frosting. To achieve a smooth surface I got my frosting spreader really hot and smoothed over any bumps. For the black areas I used a black frosting … Read more
I used a 12×18 cake pan for this Nightmare Before Christmas Cake. I made it a two layer cake. The cake was a Fudge Marble cake. There is a layer of crumb buttercream frosting on the cake. I used buttercream fondant and split it into several different balls. I took each ball and dyed it … Read more
I made this Jack Skellington cake for my friends Graduation Party. I took two 9″ cakes and stacked them then used buttercream icing to cover both layers. I dyed fondant black, rolled and cut into strips. I then placed them around the sides of the cake. I waited for the icing to set and piped … Read more
This Jack Cake is the birthday cake my sister made me for my 21st birthday! I personally think she did an amazing job, seeing as Jack is my fave character in the world!! I’m really happy with how it turned out! The top layer of the cake was chocolate (YUM!) and the bottom vanilla and … Read more
We didn’t need that big of a cake for my son’s birthday, so the part of this that is cake is Jack’s head. The rest was hand drawn by me. If it would have been for a larger gathering I would have done the base on a half sheet cake. Chocolate cake with homemade buttercream … Read more
The Nightmare before Christmas is the best movie ever and Jack makes a damn tasty Jack Skellington cake. Just make a round cake then the decoration is the only important bit! First cut a circle of greaseproof paper the same size as the circumference of your cake and draw Jacks face onto it. Then cut … Read more
For this Jack Skellington cake I took a Barbie castle cake from Wilton and painted it black and silver. I was trying to get a haunted house effect. My son loves Jack Skellington so I bought figurines to put around the haunted house.
I have never made a decorative cake before, this was my first. My son loves Jack and I thought this Jack Skellington cake would make for a great 5th birthday cake. I came online and found this site. I started with two circle cakes and two rectangles. I stacked the circles and laid the rectangles … Read more
My son was obsessed with Nightmare before Christmas so for his 5th birthday he wanted a NBC party (not an easy theme). I made this Jack Skellington cake by (a) making a round cake and frosting it white then (b) making a 13×9 cake and also frosting it white. Basically, it very much looked like … Read more
This Jack Skellington cake was easier than it looks. I baked two 9×13″ cakes and one 8″ round. I bought a huge strong piece of cardboard and covered it with Christmas paper to place the cake on. The round cake is the head. One of the 9×13″ cakes is for the torso. With a sharp … Read more
My 14 year old daughter wanted a NMBC Birthday party and didn’t want a store bought cake. Being the creative dad that I am I jumped on the chance to make a cake for her even though I’ve never baked a cake before or even decorated one. I found this page during my research for … Read more
It all started when a woman called and asked me if I could do a Jack Skellington cake that she saw on “Coolest-birthday-cakes.com”. So I fired up the laptop and checked out this site, and was inspired instantly. So I told the woman I could do one of the pictures but it wouldn’t look the … Read more