I always make a Halloween cake for my husband’s work each Halloween holiday. I was at the dollar store one day and “bingo!” I found some gummy rats and that is when my mission began. I wanted to make something gory for Halloween and to incorporate the rats. I wanted to make something with a … Read more
This Haunted House Cake is the second cake we ever made using fondant, so we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. It took three days, we had no tools, but lots of imagination. Ooh so much fun! First we started off with a 9inch round cake pan (we only had one) and … Read more
First I baked the cake in a dome cake pan and stacked them on top of one another. Be sure to ice the layers together. I made a pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting. To decorate I used white rolled fondant and colored it with Wilton’s orange gel coloring. Then for the stem I colored … Read more
This Happy Harvest Pumpkin Cake was 100% edible, covered in fondant. I made 2 single layer 14 inch round cakes, crumb coated them with buttercream and applied fondant strips to make the basket. I then baked a standard bundt cake, flipped it upside down and sat it on top of the two round layers (the … Read more
This is a chocolate and peanut butter cake that I made for our offices Halloween party. This is not the usual pumpkin cakes, this is layers of chocolate cake chocolate ganache and peanut butter cream are covered in fondant and hand painted. The hat is the same cake layered and covered in modeling chocolate. The … Read more
We are a family run business – (Wee Tait Catering), and we were asked to create a Homemade Skull & Crossbones Birthday Cake for a birthday party. We decided to make the design of the skull funny rather than scary. I found it easier to use an oblong tray and then create a cut out … Read more
The King is made up of 63 hand crafted cookies in the shapes of bones. The skull is baked from cookies on a dowel and assembled with royal icing. All cookies are decorated with fondant. The cake is a full sheet pan size. Cut to square. Then the remainder is cut to 2 more squares … Read more
My mom asked me to make a cake for her friend whose birthday is on October 31st. I thought making a Halloween themed cake would be the best. I got the idea for this Witch Birthday Cake from a picture of a scarecrow cake I found online. I made two 9 inch round cakes and … Read more
We were asked to create a Zombie Cake for a friend’s sons birthday. We cooked 3 x 8” round orange flavoured Madeira cakes. We stacked the cakes on top of each other layering them with lemon flavour butter cream. We then carved the cakes into a head shape and gouged out the eyes and the … Read more
My niece wanted a Jack Skellington cake from Nightmare Before Christmas. No one had a molding. So I got some fondant and made zero and the cake and I used food coloring. I also made individual cupcakes and everyone commented on my work. As I shaped the fondant to make zero I let it get … Read more
My son loves the Nightmare Before Christmas and wanted a Jack Skellington cake for his 5th birthday. I made a round cake and I bought white decorator icing. I cut out a piece of paper the same size the cake was and I drew Jack’s face on it. I put a piece of baking paper … Read more
I like to go overboard every year for my son’s birthday party cakes. It also gives the guest something to talk about. It is something that I can give my children that I made myself and they know how long it takes and really appreciate it. It is a humorous project that I spend hours … Read more