This Skull Birthday Cake is for my 6 year old’s birthday cake that my husband made. It is made from two sheet cakes. The skull was cut out of one caje and bones from the other. He covered it in buttercream icing and then homemade fondant. It was a big hit!
I had a request to do either a skull or a set of drums on a cake and I chose the Skull and Roses Cake. I honestly didn’t come up with what I was going to do until tonight when I started making the cake. I baked a 9″ round two layer cake and iced … Read more
For this Witch cake I used a Chocolate cake (three rounds). You frost two with chocolate icing, then crumble the third layer of the cake to resemble dirt and scatter on top of the frosted cake. (Its good if the frosting on the cake is in lumps, it better resembles a mound.) Tint marzipan or … 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
I used a ghost pan I purchased off eBay. Used regular cake mix from the box. Once baked I let cool and when ready I just frosted sides with spatula, smoothed it out and on top and used the star tip. It takes a bit but it comes out pretty cute, I’ve had a couple … Read more
This Homemade Graveyard Birthday Cake Design was for my niece’s sweet 16 birthday. She wanted a grave yard cake. I made homemade marshmallow fondant to cover the cake. I made butter cream icing to decorate. I used gum paste and fondant combination to mold each piece by hand. The pieces were painted with an air … Read more
This graveyard cake is a half sheet cake cut in half, stacked then frozen. I then carved it in to a coffin shape, frosted and decorated it to look like a coffin. Roses were made with buttercream frosting.
I made these Halloween cupcakes for my daughters 5th grade Halloween party. I got the ideas for the Mummy Frankenstein Monster and Eyeball from Wilton.com. It helps to have all your icing tinted and your bags filled. Frost all the backgrounds of the cupcakes then do one color at a time. The assembly line technique … Read more
This Halloween Cake is a 2 tiered chocolate cake with Chocolate Ganashe frosting. The ghosts are made out of white chocolate and the spider webs are sugar and water with a bit of corn syrup brought to a hard ball temp with a candy thermometer, then drizzled on to parchment paper to resemble spider webs … Read more
Believe it or not, I had the idea for a Monster House cake long before the movie came out. We have entered the Halloween cake contest at our local Elementary school every year for about the past 12 years and have won 1st, 2nd or 3rd place every year except for one. This cake won … Read more
I used two different sized pans for this Halloween cake – one large round pan and then a smaller round pan. I used red velvet cake and the frosting is Pure White Rolled Fondant. I bought some plastic flies and rubbery cockroaches that looked very real and put them on top of the Halloween cake … Read more