Since my son’s birthday falls two days after Halloween we decided to combine his 2nd birthday party with our plans to have friends over to go trick or treating together. I decided a pumpkin cake would be a fun idea. I made two pound cakes in a bundt pan. Since I only have one bundt … Read more
This pumpkin cake was made in a Bundt pan. Make two cakes. Put icing in the middle and put the bottoms of each cake against each other. Frost with orange icing, with a small star tip. I used 2 HoHos as the stem. Put the first all the way at the bottom and place the … Read more
This cake was actually easy to make! It is two bundt cakes on top of each other. The bottom one is upside down. I made homemade buttercream icing or you can use canned icing. It turns out the same. Put icing in between layers and all over top and sides. The stem is an ice … Read more
I made this skull cake for my boyfriend’s 21st birthday. He is really into skulls and has a dark sense of humor. Inside the cake is one box of fun-fetti and one box of devils food. The filling is chocolate ganache. I made the ganache with semi-sweet chips, heavy cream, butter and Kahlua liquor. I … Read more
My 7 year old niece is really into Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)…and Princesses….and corpse brides…..and well, bones in general. She wanted all of this at her 7th birthday in January thus the Skull Bride Cake Design. I used a skull cake pan and added the roses for a princess feel and … 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
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