I used a ghost pan I purchased off eBay. Used regular cake mix from the box. Once baked I let cool and when ready I just frosted sides with spatula, smoothed it out and on top and used the star tip. It takes a bit but it comes out pretty cute, I’ve had a couple … Read more
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
This graveyard cake is a half sheet cake cut in half, stacked then frozen. I then carved it in to a coffin shape, frosted and decorated it to look like a coffin. Roses were made with buttercream frosting.
I made these Halloween cupcakes for my daughters 5th grade Halloween party. I got the ideas for the Mummy Frankenstein Monster and Eyeball from Wilton.com. It helps to have all your icing tinted and your bags filled. Frost all the backgrounds of the cupcakes then do one color at a time. The assembly line technique … Read more
I needed to top my Choc-Roach cake from last year (2008)for my office Halloween Carry-in. I decided to build a Homemade House of Horrors Cake, which morphed into a torture chamber. It’s constructed of vanilla creme wafers, held together with melted chocolate. The turrets are two kinds of ice cream cones, also coated in chocolate … Read more
I made this Homemade Creepy Halloween Cake for my friend’s husband who wanted a creepy Halloween cake for his birthday. The cake consist of two cakes, the base is made from a chocolate mud cake covered with ganache, the skull was a white choc mud cake covered with fondant. I made the skull itself using … Read more
I used the Wilton castle kit. I baked four round cakes for this haunted house cake. The decorating was pretty easy. I covered the pillars with gray fondant and the cake was frosted in gray buttercream frosting. I just followed the directions that came with the Wilton castle kit. I added some candy decorations. A … Read more
I made this pumpkin cake for my sister’s 30th birthday. She insisted on having a pumpkin cake. I bought the Wilton pan and changed a few of the things on my own. Wilton suggests using mint leaves for the stem , but I used green icing with a leaf tip. I got many compliments on … Read more
For my son’s first birthday we had a costume party for Halloween and decorated with all pumpkins. I got a lot of my inspiration for the Pumpkin and Mini Pumpkin Cake from this site and added some of my own touches. I made a big cake and a small cake for my son to eat. … Read more
Being a keen baker, I quickly volunteered to make a cake for my friend’s daughter, who has her birthday very close to Halloween and arranged a theme party to fit the season. I was delighted to finally have a good use for my Bundt cake tin, which was yet to be christened. This pumpkin cake … Read more
Eyes, nose and mouth of this pumpkin cake are tootsie rolls flattened and cut. The stem of the pumpkin cake is and ice cream cone frosted green. Two box mixes were baked in 9 in. round and metal bowl (one round and one bowl baked from each mix). I layered cakes with icing between – … Read more
My youngest son was born on Halloween and I wanted a Halloween cake for his first birthday. To make the checkerboard pattern I used a cake pan set that I purchased at Fleet Farm. You could also make this with 3 8″ or 9″ round cakes of different flavors stacking them one on top of … Read more