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Gretchen W.
Lexington, KY
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 the rest of the cake to form a smooth eyeball look. Pour red (non hardened) jello over the outer part of the cake and let it collect in the plate. This will give you the red glossy look. Pour green jello (or whatever color you would like the eye color to be) into the hole in the top of the eye. The fondant icing will keep the jello from soaking into the cake. When the eye color is almost hardened drop a few drops of black food coloring into the center for the pupil. You can use a toothpick to pull some small lines of black into the colored part of the eye to give it a neater look.
I took a small brush with red food coloring to make red lines on the eye to give it the bloodshot look. Then I took some black food coloring to give the collected 'blood' in the tray that older look. You will have to keep the cake cool or the jello will turn back into a liquid. I made this Halloween cake for my son's 'gross' eighth birthday and a Halloween party. It really doesn't take much time at all to prepare but you will have to give yourself time for the jello to set. Everyone at both parties went wild over this cake.
Tabatha L.
Willow Grove, PA
I made this Halloween cake for Halloween. I started with making three round pound cakes. I put them together and frosted them in middle then I placed them in freezer to get hard.
| Once they were ready I carved out a pumpkin shape and frosted outside and placed in fridge to chill. While cake was chilling I made up my fondant. I then tinted it a yellow color. I rolled out fondant and placed over cake and molded it around my carvings. Once that was done I used a toothpick and fondant tools to carve face out of fondant. |  |
Once I was done I painted orange colors using color gel in the creases and used Wilton color spray (orange) to color pumpkin. I then used black gel to color in face. I made a stalk out of fondant two days before hand. I had placed a dowel through stalk when it was wet so I could attach it to pumpkin later. I painted it with food color gels to get the effect of a real stalk. Once cake was done I put stalk into middle.
| For the ghost I baked a square cake and one cupcake (large.) I placed it in fridge to chill. The next morning I cut off the two top corners (not big) and the two bottom corners (much bigger then top). I stood cake up and wedged corners around cake to hold it up. I attached cupcake to top for the head. I also put dowels through the top and through the pieces so cake wouldn't move. |  |
I then iced it. Put in fridge to chill. I then made fondant. I left it white. I then rolled out a nice piece. I placed fondant over cake and kind of just let it fold within itself to get the draping effect. I then painted on eyes with color gel.
I also made homemade candy corn to decorate the Halloween cake. I made them fairly big. I placed a piece of colored fondant on cake board and then put cakes on. Everyone was thrilled.
Amy G.
Bonney Lake, WA
I used two boxed cake mixes and made a square cake and three round cakes for this Halloween cake. I used the Wiltons basic buttercream frosting recipe and colored it as needed. The square cake was placed on foil covered cardboard and frosted with purple colored frosting. I stacked all three round cakes on top of the square cake and frosted them green. I used black frosting with a serrated edge tip for the hair.
A "fun size" Twix candy bar was pushed into each side of "Frankie's" neck (for the screws he normally has there). I frosted those gray. I piped a small amount of frosting on his face for eyes and then put a brown M&M in the center of each. A green M&M was used for his nose. Finally I piped a black frosting mouth and scars on his face.
Jamie V.
Cutler Bay, FL
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 brain and the mice eating the brain or anything of that nature. The rats were rather cute and I didn’t want them to be cute so I had to create some type of gore.
I used a boxed red velvet cake to add to the illusion once the cakes were cut. I had a brain jello mold and didn’t want to put gelatin in it because it would not be able to be refrigerated all day and didn’t want to create any more of a mess. Instead I made a red velvet cake using a Pyrex bowl and once the cake came out of the oven and was extremely hot I inverted the cake and pushed it into the mold of the brain so that it would cool and take the shape of the brain. It worked better than I thought and then all else slowly began to unravel. I then continued with making two more red velvet cakes using two 8” round cakes and another one in the Pyrex bowl. I used the one in the Pyrex bowl to create the top of the head and the two round cakes filled with buttercream to create the face cake.
| I then covered each Halloween cake with fondant. The “brain” shaped cake I did cover with fondant also but only after I rolled out the fondant and placed it onto of the mold to try to get the brain design on the fondant before placing it on the cake. |  |
Then I thinned some gel paste with vodka and painted it on the fondant to create the skin color and hair. In order to make it more realistic I created a widow’s peak and some eyebrows. I also took a toothpick and scraped the hair and eyebrows to create the look of actual hair being there. I then cut out two fondant eyes, painted the details and then stuck them on the face. I took the brain cake and set it on top of the head as if someone had cut the head open to look at the brain. I then put the top portion of the head off to the side.
I thinned some gel paste and used red to paint the blood around the bottom of the head and around the base of the brain and top of the head. The white brain chunks that are placed around the cake are made of some melted white chocolate. I put it in the brain mold hoping to be able to get a whole brain shape out but couldn’t get it out in one whole piece so I decided to place the broken pieces around the cake to add to the “dissection look.” Lastly I added the gummy rats to the cake and around the board along with some plastic ants.
Not fully satisfied with the outcome of the Halloween cake I had the bright idea to add some more blood! I know that when you generally use red for coloring purposes that the color tends to be bitter so to keep this from happening I used strawberry jello. Instead of using two cups of water I used only one cup of cold water to the package of jello mix. I then used a medicine dropper to suck up the blood and drip it all over. I like the effect that it added to the cakes. Not only did it look great but it had a great aroma! Best of all, after a little time the jello ingredients started to kick in and it then became thick and gooey as you would expect blood to do before drying.
I love the way that this cake turned out being that it was for Halloween but my husband’s coworkers were thinking that I’ve got issues! Although my two teenage kids loved the Halloween cake!
Marisa N.
Lake Grove, NY
It was my fiancés sister's birthday and we wanted to bake a Halloween cake because her birthday was around Halloween time. we figured that we would attempt to make it a pumpkin cake. We tried it and I think it came out great. It was a carrot cake so it was a little difficult to control. I recommend using plain white cake next time around. The icing used was a cream cheese icing, again plain white frosting would work better. Wiltons round cake pan for the pumpkin and a plain glass dish for the bottom portion. Both used a box of cake.
Ghost peeps added the cute effects. I make some spooky trees by molding fondant. It was my first time but it's sort of like play dough so it was great!
Harriet P.
La Marque, TX
I made this Halloween cake for my boys. I made a traditional vanilla cake from Joy of Cooking cookbook and classic buttercream frosting. The cats were made out of circular cake pans and I just used cake corners for their ears. I got the cat faces from some Halloween Decorations with a little of my own inspiration.
The Snake was created on 11x17 cake pan. I was inspired by some of the snakes created on this site.
Hazel A.
Scotland
For this cake I made a sponge cake in a pudding bowl plus a round sponge which is at least 1'' wider in diameter (to make the cauldron lip). I cut a circle out of the centre of the round cake and fitted it on top of the pudding bowl cake to make a cauldron shape. I covered it with buttercream icing then royal icing.
I made the goo inside by mixing up some fondant icing but you could use jelly if you wish! I then added snakes, eyeballs and other Halloween sweets available in the shops! Very Spooky indeed!
Valerie G.
L'Epiphanie, Quebec
I found the idea for this Halloween cake on this site for pumpkin cakes and for Teddy bear cakes, put the two together and came up with this cake. The pumpkin is made of rolled fondant and the bear is covered with Tip 16 stars. My son ate one ear off this cake... I was so mad! I finally carved another ear with a part of a cake I cut the bottom to flip it (the "bombed" part of a cake when you bake one). There you go!
Olivia L.
Torrance, CA
This was a cake I made for a Halloween last year! I drew up outlines for both Frankenstein and the Bride of Frankenstein and used that as templates for the shape of the cake.
Then I found some pictures and used those to help me ice them. With Frankenstein, I wanted to make his outfit look worn in and dirty so I used chocolate icing to "dirty" him up. I also mixed in green food coloring to the cake batter so that when Frankenstein was cut he was green!
Julie S.
Tunnel Hill, GA
For this Frankengirl Halloween cake, I used two loaf pans and "glued" them together with buttercream icing. I then decorated with the right colors. This is a fun and easy Halloween cake.
Irene B.
Leduc, Alberta, Canada
This cake was made for my 6 year old son's Halloween themed birthday party. It started out to be a hairy spider cake that I saw in a magazine, but I ran out of white icing that I tinted green. With only the top bit left to do, I didn't want to run out to buy more, instead I had some chocolate icing in my pantry and decided to make the spider cake two-toned. Once I put the brown icing on, I saw that it kind of looked like Frankenstein's head, the top of it. So that became my new cake. Fitting for Halloween, someone cut the top of Frankenstein's head off and it was being served on my platter.
I used a round bowl to bake the cake in and iced it green except for the top bit, which I iced brown. Gum eyeballs, prune for ears, licorice for stitches, plastic bolts set up the props. I used icing sugar and water around the cake on the platter as puss and used red gel icing to make it look like blood.
The 6 year boys thought this unique Halloween cake was pretty gross and it fit with our theme. The best thing of all was that it was really easy to make.
Jamie R.
Cave City, AR
I used two different sized pans for this Halloween cake - one large round pan and then a smaller round pan. I used red velvet cake and the frosting is Pure White Rolled Fondant.
I bought some plastic flies and rubbery cockroaches that looked very real and put them on top of the Halloween cake in the fondant. I also bought the ghost and the little boo word you see in yellow and black from Walmart (they are just candy cake decorations). I freehanded the spider web with black icing and just piped it on. I placed little Halloween stickers (from Walmart) on the crystal-look spike pillar legs holding the top cake up. The top Halloween cake is sitting on a crystal-look Plate. |
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I lined around the cake with little candy pumpkins. I put rubbery mice and spiders around the Halloween cake as well.
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