Macy was a Halloween baby, and always wants a Halloween themed birthday cake. She also wanted a Barbie cake, so I incorporated the Halloween theme, by making a Halloween Witch Cake. I baked one cake in my Pampered Chef large measuring cup, and made an 8″ round cake for the base. I bought spiders and … Read more
I modeled the Zombie Cake for my friend Nic (his birthday) with gum paste. Cake is dark chocolate, filled with raspberries and chocolate mousse, iced with chocolate butter cream and marshmallow fondant. Brains and blood made from smushed raspberries.
This Jack Skellington cake was really fun to do and one of my first attempts at shaping buttercream. It is just a quarter sheet cake with Bavarian cream filling. I started with a picture I found on the internet of the title character and went from there. I realize I should have used a 8 … Read more
My son loves Jack, I made it for his 6th birthday, This was my first big cake.For the head I used 2 round cakes, the body 1 long cake pan, the bow tie is construction paper. The frosting I bought from Target, they have the different color tubes and gel for the face. This cake … Read more
I always like to make a cake for each holiday. Last year, for Halloween I made this ghost cake with ghosts going for a walk. I used a boxed cake mix and even canned icing. The border of the cake is made from candy corn, so each different area was separated. On the left side … Read more
I made this cemetary cake for my 3 year old son. It’s made with Betty Crocker’s German chocolate cake mix. Small gravestone shaped Hershey chocolate candybars, some store bought spider jewels, bone hands, and icing. All the kids loved it and it makes for a good Halloween party.
I was having a Halloween party and made this Halloween Graveyard Cake. It came out pretty cool. The head stones, skeletons, pumpkins and animals are made out of fondant (make all the fondant figures a couple of days prier to assembly). I used butter cream for the grass and crushed chocolate animal cracker cookies for … Read more
My son was turning six and was at the stage where all things gross, creepy, crawly and slimy are really cool. So we made him a Homemade Snakes Skulls and Spiders Birthday Cake! We called it the “tattoo” cake because that is what it reminded us of. For fun, we put food coloring in the … Read more
I made this Halloween Cake Idea for Halloween 2009, it went down a treat so I thought I’d share the idea with everyone. First I made 2 plain Victoria sponges, one 12″ and one 8″ rounds, (when they are both mixed up I used a tiny drop of red food colouring and swirled it into … Read more
I used a soccer ball cake pan for this Halloween cake. After the cake cools cut out a hole in the top of the cake. Try to make the hole as perfectly round as possible. Cover the cake in white fondant icing making sure that the icing goes smoothly down into the hole and over … Read more
My brother-in-law’s birthday is at the end of October so I took this opportunity to make a fun Halloween birthday cake. I made a Haunted House Halloween Cake. I used a pre-cooked Wilton gingerbread house kit that I put together with icing and decorated and placed on a 9×13 cake. I dipped pretzels in melted … Read more
I saw the recipe for a Pumpkin Cake on this web- site and had to give it a try. I wasn’t sure who was going to eat it, though, once I had made it. I baked it, had a piece and brought the cake in to the office where I used to work. My former … Read more