Coolest Halloween and Fall Birthday Cake

Coolest Halloween and Fall Birthday Cake

My daughter told me she wanted a birthday cake with a ghost and fall harvest. I’m not a professional baker. I’m a stay home mom but I like to bake different kind of stuff for my family and friends. The cake was from scratch, just a regular chocolate cake. I frosted it with chocolate ganache … Read more

Awesome Halloween Graduation Cake

I had a specific request for this Halloween graduation cake; it had to be text books because it was for a graduation. It had to have a knife stabbed into it and it had to have what was written on the ‘sheet of paper’ . The girl was graduating with a Social Work degree around … Read more

Cool Skeleton Cake

Cool Skeleton Cake

My name is Teresa Newton and I work as an EMT on an ambulance. I have been baking for friends and family most of my adult life and began doing cakes after taking a Wilton basic course in 2000.  This skeleton cake was for my friend whose son turned 17 on Halloween. The cake itself … Read more

Homemade Witches Cauldron Cake

Homemade Witches Cauldron Cake

I made this cake for a toddlers Halloween party. I used 3 layers of pound cake covered in butter cream then black fondant. I made the witch from a mixture of fondant and flower paste and the green in the cauldron is butter cream. (The skeleton and spiders are plastic toys)

Spooky Halloween Cake

The base of this cake is a 16×2 cake pan. As I did make mostly everything on this cake, however my two sons did put together and decorate the gingerbread haunted house, so they will get the credit for that. Now the ghosts are made of white and brown modeling chocolate. I started with a … Read more

Scary Swamp Monster Cake

Scary Swamp Monster Cake

My 8yr old wanted Swamp Monster scary good birthday cake, so here it is. I was inspired by the Lego’s Monster Fighters. I baked 2 round cakes, and 6 cupcakes. I froze them for better frosting later! (trick I learned on this site). I cut out a hole and put a bowl for the “swamp”. I dipped … Read more

Halloween Cauldron Cake

Halloween Cauldron Cake

This Halloween Cauldron Cake was quite an experience to make, it was my first time using fondant and we didn’t quite get along. It stated as a three layer 8’ cake. I frosted between the layer and stuck it in the freezer for about an hour. I then shaped it with a serrated knife, gave it a good crumb coat … Read more

Scary Halloween Birthday Cake

Scary Halloween Birthday Cake

I had a lot of fun with this scariest big 50th birthday cake. I figured you only  turn 50 once in your life, my birthday just happens to be the day before Halloween, so this is what I did. I made the cake from scratch, yes chocolate.I used chocolate frosting for the entire cake. Then I made … Read more

Coolest Pumpkin Cake for a 5-Year-Old Girl

Coolest Pumpkin Cake for a 5-Year-Old Girl

I created this pumpkin cake for a girl’s 5th birthday party. I baked a half sheet cake then made rice crispy treats and cut out the cake where the pumpkin was going to sit and inserted a section of the rice crispy to hold the weight of the pumpkin. I baked cake in two bundt … Read more

Grim Reaper Halloween Birthday Cake

Grim Reaper Halloween Birthday Cake

This cake was made for a 10 tear old ,it is chocolate with chocolate buttercream covered in orange vanilla fondant,the work on the cake is fondant and piped fondant,the top of the cake is a Rice Krispie form covered in fondant,the face is hand painted with edible silver,the tombstone is a Rice Krispie slab covered … Read more

Coolest Wedding Halloween Cake Idea

Homemade Wedding Halloween Cake Idea

I make this Homemade Wedding Halloween Cake Idea for my wedding which was on Halloween. We were going to just have a Halloween party and decided at the last minute to get married. I wish I had a little bit more time to make the cake look perfect. It took me about 3 days to … Read more

Coolest Horror Movie Birthday Cake

Homemade Horror Movie Birthday Cake

I made this Horror Movie birthday cake for my oldest son’s birthday. He loves scary movies so I decided to make him a horror movie cake. I used 2 chocolate cakes and put them side by side. I cut a 1 inch strip down along one side of each cake so that I could put … Read more