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!
I started out this Evil Skull Birthday Cake by mixing up my own Red Velvet cake; I thought it was appropriate for this cake. With this cake pan you must spray with Pam and then coat with flour. The cake comes in 2 sections which have to be assembled. The backs of each cake half … Read more
My son has an October birth date, so this year he wanted a Halloween/Red Sox skull cake. This is what I came up with. I thought it turned out kind of neat. I was extremely rushed so the decorating is a little sloppy. I used store bought dark chocolate fudge cake mix with creamy white … 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
I made this Skull cake for a friend’s Halloween party. It consisted of a few round cakes, stacked and then sculpted, with slightly yellow tinged icing, black food colouring in the eyes, nose and mouth, and a generous sprinkling of chocolate cookie crumbs, chocolate rocks, and gummy worms.
I made this friendly girly skull cake for my nieces 12th birthday. Shes a little eclectic yet feminine (much like her aunt) and I wanted to make her a cake that reflected that. This is a two layer round. All I did was trim off small sections from the bottom to create the skull shape. … Read more
This Skull cake is a great cake for any Pirate fan. This was my five year old son’s choice of cake this year. Nice easy design and only two colors of icing. How simple can you get?
I made 50 cupcakes and a 6″ smash cake for a friend’s daughter’s fifth birthday. I made 25 strawberry mix cupcakes, 25 chocolate mix cupcakes, and the 6″ smash cake was strawberry. I tied black, pink and white ribbon into bows around each cupcake liner. I made homemade buttercream icing with the C&H Sugar recipe. … Read more
This is a free cake decorating idea that I made for my daughters grade 7 Halloween party. It was a big hit. I used a star tip for the rest of the head. With the chocolate frosting I drew outlines on the face to make everything pop. The spider was made out of a chocolate … Read more
This Skull And Crossbone Cake is the very first decorative cake I have ever made. My best friend’s daughter was having her 16th birthday and really wanted a skull and crossbone cake. We live in a very rural area and knew of nobody who would or could make the cake she wanted so badly, so … Read more
I made this Pirate Skull Cake for a friend’s wedding. Her husband loves pirates, so it was a grooms cake. I molded the skull out of rice crispy treats, covered it with fondant and painted it by hand with gel food coloring. I covered the other two cakes in fondant, and painted them also, as … Read more
This is our skull cake, it is very easy to make. We drew a skull on paper, baked our cakes, drew the outline over them, and cut them up. We used white icing all over the cake, and black icing for eyes, mouth and eyebrows. We used red candies for eyes. We bought Halloween gummy … Read more