My son loves the Nightmare Before Christmas and wanted a Jack Skellington cake for his 5th birthday. I made a round cake and I bought white decorator icing. I cut out a piece of paper the same size the cake was and I drew Jack’s face on it. I put a piece of baking paper … Read more
This Jack Skellinton cake was requested by my niece for her 15th birthday. It was pretty easy (more than I thought). I just made a regular 9×13 box cake and iced it with classic white icing. I bought a can of the black Wilton icing with tips to do the rest (I had the colored … Read more
I made this Nightmare Before Christmas Topsy Turvy Birthday Cake for my son’s 17th birthday. I used to work in the Disney Store when he was a toddler I brought home NBC he was hooked even at that age and has loved it ever since, he has grown to love all Tim Burton’s work, which … Read more
This Nightmare Before Christmas Cake was made for my sister’s 16th birthday party. She is an avid Jack fan. I made the three tiers then covered them with fondant. (For this cake I bought a tub of ready-made.) All of the figures were mad from gum paste. This was my first attempt to mold figures … Read more
I made this Oogie Boogie cake for my son’s 6th birthday. It was by far the easiest cake I ever made. Just make a round cake. I made a sponge cake, but you can use any cake you like. I chopped up strawberries into tiny pieces and mixed them with whipped cream, which I used … Read more
I used a yellow cake mix so it would be easy to cover with white icing. I dipped my spreader in a glass of hot water to get the icing smooth. I spread black jell icing on the rim of a Dixie cup and squeezed it to get the oval shape for outline of the … Read more
I love to make cakes. Halloween is a really great time to get adventurous with baking and my kids love the Nightmare Before Christmas; we always watch the film at Halloween. This cake has two tiers, one chocolate with the crumbled flaked on the top, and one lemon with a lemon curd filling. It was … Read more
This Homemade Jack Skellington Cake was made for my daughter on her 16th, she is mad about Nightmare Before Christmas and I thought I’d give it ago. I used a 12inch square Madeira cake and a 10inch round. All what you see on the cake is made from fondant icing, Jack was made in sections … Read more
I made this Nightmare Before Christmas Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday as she loves The Nightmare Before Christmas. The bottom cake is an orange-vanilla cake with orange butter frosting. The top one is a three layered chocolate and vanilla checkerboard cake also with butter frosting. Each layer was frosted a different color:purple, orange … Read more
This Jack Skellington birthday cake, was 4 12″ squares, leveled filled and iced in buttercream then covered in neon green fondant, a large contour pan was used for the basket ball inside the box, it was covered in buttercream, then fondant was folded in parts to look like tissue paper. The lid was double layers … Read more
This Homemade Nightmare Before Christmas Cake is the reason I started classes up at my local craft store. My daughter wanted a Nightmare Before Christmas ‘SALLY’ cake for her birthday. She was turning 4 and everything I was finding was a little too much on the Halloween/Morbid side. This cake was so much fun! ONLY … Read more
This homemade Nightmare Before Christmas cake was for a girl who likes “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, sewing & sketching. This is what I came up with. The pencil has drawn Jack & Sally and the needle & thread has sewn the heart. This is a double layer 9”x13” cake. I covered all 4 sides with … Read more