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
Technically these bugs should be spider cupcakes with eight legs but we ran a bit short on legs! The legs were red string candy. We found it easiest to use a skewer to first make the hole before inserting the string. We used chocolate cupcakes covered in chocolate frosting and brown sprinkles. The eyes were … Read more
This ghost cake was for a 2 year old’s birthday party so the face needed to be “Happy”! I used a double chocolate cake recipe for this size cake pan. I used the Wilton buttercream recipe for the icing and doubled that also. The icing was colored with gel and the face of the ghost … Read more
I made this graveyard cake for my nephew’s birthday which is in October. He was having a party with some friends and wanted a “cool & scary ” cake. I baked a chocolate cake and frosted it with homemade chocolate whipped icing. I then topped it off with a haunted house that I put together(from … Read more
This graveyard cake is a 1/4 sheet cake for a friends Halloween birthday. I frosted it with store bought icing because it is creamier and easy to work with. I spooned a small amount out for each grave to make it look like a fresh grave and then covered that with crushed chocolate cookies. For … Read more
I used the Wilton Ball Cake for the mold of the face on this Homemade Mummy Cake. I used a chocolate frosting to cover the entire ball. I then used strips of white fondant and placed them in different areas and directions. The eyes were made using yellow and black fondant.
This Mad Hatter cake was made for my best friend who just turned 18. I was really excited to start this cake because it was my first time ever doing a cake this size and using fondant. However I think it turned out awsome and everyone loved it! I colored and flavored the fondant 3 … Read more
My son asked for a Scooby Doo Cake for his 3rd birthday. I searched this site and others to get ideas (thank you) and this Homemade Scooby Doo Haunted House Cake is what I came up with. I learned some lessons on this one! I started with a 13 in round pan (1 layer), then … Read more
My boyfriends birthday is on Halloween and this year he requested a haunted house cake for his big party. The first three layers are vanilla cake with raspberry buttercream frosting, the next three are chocolate rum with peanut butter frosting and the lawn and roof are carrot cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. The structure is … Read more
I have been decorating cakes for 14 years, but have recently gotten into sculpting cakes and 3-D cakes. Which I must say I love very much. My 3-year old decided we should have a Halloween Costume themed birthday party for his brother. So, we said yes. I wanted to do a mummy shaped cake but … Read more
I used 2 bunt cake pans and iced them both together for this Halloween Pumpkin Cake, and then colored some icing orange, black and green. The orange was for all the cake and the black for the eyes, the green was for the tip of the pumpkin that was make from an ice cream cone … Read more
First I baked a homemade pumpkin cake in 4 9in cake pans and then covered them in a white butter cream frosting. I then rolled out orange fondant and covered the Jack O’Lantern pumpkin cake. I cut out the mouth, nose and eyes from black fondant. I let those pieces dry. I then formed the … Read more