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
I made this haunted house cake for my friends daughter birthday. She was born on Halloween. When she saw the cake she loved it. I used two 9×13 cake pans (one cake mix for each pan). Let the cakes cool. Put them side by side on the display board. Make the cake tops even. You … Read more
I made a Jack O Lantern pumpkin cake for my friend’s anniversary party, married on Halloween! I wanted to make something original but recognizable. I made the Jack-O-Lantern from 2 bundt pans with a 9 inch round cake in between the stacked bundt cakes. I used box cake mix, nothing fancy. I stacked the cakes … Read more
I used Betty Crocker bake and fill cake pans that come in a rounded shape. I used three cakes stacked together then using 2 tubs of frosting I mixed with food dye to make the orange color. I put one layer of frosting on then placed in the fridge overnight for the crumb coating then … Read more
I hosted a Lil Pumpkin baby shower for a friend due in October. I made this pumpkin cake from two bundt cake pans. One inverted on top of the other. An ice cream cone made a great stem once it was colored green and brown. My bundt pan made a middle hole a little larger … Read more
This Jack OLantern pumpkin cake was from the Wilton pan & recipe. It is easy to bake following the Wilton directions (30 minutes exactly in the oven worked best) but I recommend using a white/yellow cake and not chocolate. The darker cake was much harder to decorate because of the crumbs and the dark cake … Read more
My daughter turned 10 and we wanted to make something special. We created the whole casing, flowers etc. out of fondant, very easy to use. We copied the casing from pumpkin cakes pictures so as to make it look like a pumpkin. Make sure you have plenty of time to prepare the fondant colors ahead … Read more