This Homemade Graveyard Birthday Cake Design was for my niece’s sweet 16 birthday. She wanted a grave yard cake. I made homemade marshmallow fondant to cover the cake. I made butter cream icing to decorate. I used gum paste and fondant combination to mold each piece by hand. The pieces were painted with an air … Read more
I wanted a cake that said Easter without a bunny so my daughter and I chose the empty tomb. It was surprisingly easy. I baked two cakes one in a 9×13 pan and one in a stoneware mixing bowl. I iced the bowl cake on top of the square one and carved out the opening … Read more
I baked this Homemade Halloween Graveyard Cake with a Graveyard theme for a Halloween Party. For the icing, I used homemade buttercream icing tinted dark blue for the sky part, then dark green (achieved by adding some black and green Wilton icing color for the actual grass part). I used my homemade marshmallow fondant and … Read more
I made this graveyard cake from a box mix then used a marshmallow fondant for the blue background. I used home made buttercream & food colorings for the tree, grave, moon, pumpkin and grass. I used ghost “peeps” for the ghosts around the edges.
This Cemetery Worker Birthday Cake I made for a co-worker’s birthday at the cemetery that I was working at. I used the butter cream icing recipe from the Wilton website. I also used the butter cake recipe from their website. I made all of the decorations on the cake out of fondant. The only thing … Read more
This graveyard cake is a 1/4 sheet cake for a friends Halloween birthday. I frosted it with store bought icing because it is creamier and easy to work with. I spooned a small amount out for each grave to make it look like a fresh grave and then covered that with crushed chocolate cookies. For … Read more
I made this graveyard cake for my nephew’s birthday which is in October. He was having a party with some friends and wanted a “cool & scary ” cake. I baked a chocolate cake and frosted it with homemade chocolate whipped icing. I then topped it off with a haunted house that I put together(from … Read more
For this Graveyard cake I used 2 box mixes and store-bought frosting. It worked fine. I did follow the directions for decorating. You have to bake the cakes in a 13-by-9-by-2-inch pan, an 8-inch ovenproof bowl and a 6-inch loaf pan. Decorating the Graveyard cake: I used orange frosting, green gumdrops, chocolate graham crackers, chocolate … Read more
This Birthday Casket Cake I made for my uncle who was turning 45. Previously I had done an over the hill themed cake, so I wanted to do a one foot in the grave cake. That idea did not work out so well when I tried to find a way to get Ken to stand … Read more
This Halloween Graveyard Cake is a chocolate cake with ganache frosting. The Frankenstein is made from marshmallows. The spider’s legs are pretzels and his body is a cake ball with chocolate sprinkles to resemble fur. The tombstones, cats, pumpkins, ghosts are all sugar cookie dough. The mummy is a mini cupcake. The moon and bats … Read more
Here are two cake ideas I came up with for my daughters annual Halloween party – a pumpkin cake and a graveyard cake. The pumpkin cake is simply a yellow cake made in a bunt pan. I used white icing with yellow and red food coloring to make the orange. The stem is created with … Read more
This Cars graveyard cake was a birthday cake for a 9 year old boy. He loves Cars and his birthday was on Halloween. So I combined them. The “grave yard” was made from brownie mix that was hallowed out. The Cars characters were pre-purchased and wrapped in paper tape and everything else was edible…colored coconut … Read more
This homemade haunted graveyard cake was made out of two devils food chocolate cakes and I made a chocolate fudge frosting with coconut mixed in. I put a thin layer between the cake then coated the cake with it. To create the dirt on top I used toasted coconut, crushed almonds, and crushed thin mint … Read more
This is a two layer 8″ round spice Graveyard cake with cream cheese frosting which was airbrushed black/brown. The tombstones are Vienna Fingers cookies iced in gray, and the ghost is rice krispies treat covered with fondant. Edible rice paper leaves decorate the sides; and I added candy pumpkins all around. The hand’ and Happy … Read more
This cake is the result of a request for the theme “One foot in the grave.” My friend turned 43 this year, and I had no idea how to turn that into a cake. I found some ideas for a One Foot in the Grave Cake online, modified them, and came up with this. The … Read more
I made this graveyard cake for a friend’s mom. She was turning 50 and I came up with the idea for a grave symbolizing her youth. I looked for so many ideas on the net and got many ideas from many places including this site and threw it all together. I bought the fencing from … Read more
This Graveyard cake was made using two 9×13 pans. I used chocolate cake mixes. It had a filling that was a can of cherry pie filling mixed with one softened cream cheese. Once these ingredients are mixed, fold in a large container of Cool Whip and spread mixture between the two layers. The icing is … Read more