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!
This Skull Cake was an inspired birthday cake for my nephew. He had said to me that he wanted it gross and creepy. Well, since he is only 9 I figured I wouldn’t go too gross! So, the skull is all cake! No rice krispie. Its a red velvet cake with cherry pie filling to … Read more
I made this 6″ Pirate Skull cake and 85 cupcakes for a friend’s son’s first birthday. The theme was ‘Pirates, red and black’. Half of the cupcakes were vanilla cakes and half were chocolate. I made homemade buttercream icing from the C&H Sugar Recipe and colored half of it red and the other half black. … Read more
I was trying to think of the perfect cake to do for my husband. I looked at a lot of the cakes on your website to try and get an idea. Well, they all were golf or something like that. So I thought of the things he was interested in and here is what I … Read more
My Halloween Skull Birthday Cake was made for my daughter Rebekah who is older and not so fond of “normal” birthday cakes. The cake was made in an 8″ Wilton oval cake pan. The cake itself was milk chocolate and the icing was buttercream. The technique I used in putting the design on the cake … Read more
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