Take a look at these cool homemade Skulls cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
This is for my son Raiden’s sixth birthday. The theme was skull! I had to make 48 cupcakes. I had never seen a cupcake cake before but really liked how this one turned out. Judging by the look on his face he did as well. I never let my boys see the cake before they … Read more
I decided I would like to make a Halloween cake and rather than eat it myself, I held a raffle at work to raise money for a vetrans charity and a cancer nurse charity. It was well received and I made around £150. I did use a skull shaped tin for the actual cake but … Read more
A Skull Cake is what happens when brainstorming ideas for my son’s Halloween themed 16th birthday party take a 180° turn. I asked him what he wanted, and all he gave me to go on was wanting a more non-kid themed party. So I started tossing out creepy/gory cake ideas. With his input, we were just about … Read more
For my skull cake, I used devils food cake in a 2 piece skull pan. Lightly frosted with butter cream and let dry. Then heavier frosted again with butter cream. I used paint brushes to frost in the smaller areas. To draw in the teeth I thinned the frosting with water and used a toothpick to … Read more
I was asked to make a cake for the dinner that the Airforce base does once a month for the warriors who stay here at the hospital while recovering from injuries they get down range. This month the KHAC or Kaiserslautern Hispanic American Club was hosting and as it’s also Halloween month. They wanted both … Read more
A friend’s daughter was turning 5, and really wanted a sugar skull cake. I got the Wilton’s 3d cake pan from Michael’s, and covered it in decorative fondant. It was a huge hit! The girl’s mom had fun with the candles too, she put one in the middle of each eye, one in the forehead, … Read more
My BFF is a special effects makeup artist, myself as well. So for his birthday I wanted to bring the makeup artist and haunt actor to life in his cake.He also loves 70’s punk bands, so I made his favorite band album covers in zombie form. He also collects skulls so this is how I … Read more
Well, since I am the only person out of my friends that knows how to make cakes, I decided to make my own birthday cake. And with my obsession for skulls this cake just seemed perfect. I didn’t want to pay the $50 for a Wilton skull pan so I decided to make my own. … Read more
I wanted to do a big skull cake, but didn’t want to pay $35 for the cake mold, so instead I paid $3 for a chocolate skull mold and made a treasure chest cake instead. The cake had half chocolate layers and half white cake. All details were made with homemade marshmallow fondant. The skull … Read more
Since my son is apparently “too big” for theme parties, he just wanted to incorporate his favorite colors, orange and blue, and “cool stuff like skulls and flames” into his 10th birthday party cake and decorations. So I printed up the invitations, which included an orange flaming skull and blue flames. For the cake, I … Read more
I wanted to try out the 3D skull pan for Wilton’s and what better time than Halloween?? I baked 2 skulls and after putting them together I covered them both in white fondant. Looking at them just plain white was boring. So I took a paint brush and my black dye and smudged it all over the skull. … Read more
I made this Pirate Birthday Cake for my son on his pirate themed birthday. It was my very first cake that I made with fondant. I was pretty worried about the results but over all I think it came out great. The only thing I changed for the next fondant topped cake was I added … Read more