Take a look at these cool homemade Nightmare Before Christmas Scene 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 had a lady call me up asking if I could make her a Tim Burton Nightmare Before Christmas wedding cake and 150 cupcakes. I said sure that sounds like fun! she only could afford $400 so I was good with that. I figured I could do it with that and still make money off it. … Read more
I made 6 white wedding cakes. I made butter cream icing and marshmallow fondant for the roses. After melting the marshmallows with a few tsp. of water I added 6-8 cups of powdered sugar and mixed until it started forming a solid ball. I covered my fondant sheet with butter so it wouldn’t stick then … Read more
I made this Nightmare Before Christmas Topsy Turvy Birthday Cake for my son’s 17th birthday. I used to work in the Disney Store when he was a toddler I brought home NBC he was hooked even at that age and has loved it ever since, he has grown to love all Tim Burton’s work, which … Read more
I love to make cakes. Halloween is a really great time to get adventurous with baking and my kids love the Nightmare Before Christmas; we always watch the film at Halloween. This cake has two tiers, one chocolate with the crumbled flaked on the top, and one lemon with a lemon curd filling. It was … Read more
This Homemade Nightmare Before Christmas Cake is the reason I started classes up at my local craft store. My daughter wanted a Nightmare Before Christmas ‘SALLY’ cake for her birthday. She was turning 4 and everything I was finding was a little too much on the Halloween/Morbid side. This cake was so much fun! ONLY … Read more
For this Jack Skellington cake I took a Barbie castle cake from Wilton and painted it black and silver. I was trying to get a haunted house effect. My son loves Jack Skellington so I bought figurines to put around the haunted house.
I was asked to make a three tier Halloween cake for a Halloween/Wedding Party. I started a few days before by making the cake top hill. I used a simple batch of rice crispy treats to shape into the hill. I formed the hill and let sit for 24 hours. I then covered it with … Read more
This Nightmare Before Christmas Cake was made for my sister’s 16th birthday party. She is an avid Jack fan. I made the three tiers then covered them with fondant. (For this cake I bought a tub of ready-made.) All of the figures were mad from gum paste. This was my first attempt to mold figures … Read more
This homemade Nightmare Before Christmas cake was for a girl who likes “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, sewing & sketching. This is what I came up with. The pencil has drawn Jack & Sally and the needle & thread has sewn the heart. This is a double layer 9”x13” cake. I covered all 4 sides with … Read more
I used a 12×18 cake pan for this Nightmare Before Christmas Cake. I made it a two layer cake. The cake was a Fudge Marble cake. There is a layer of crumb buttercream frosting on the cake. I used buttercream fondant and split it into several different balls. I took each ball and dyed it … Read more