Ideas for Halloween Cakes
- Make a spooky coffin cake and surround it with skeleton bones and candy spiders. Prepare two rectangular-shaped cakes and stack one on top of the other. Place a cutout of a coffin on top of the cakes and use a serrated knife to cut around the picture. Separate the cakes and cover each with a smooth layer of grey marble fondant. Cover a square cake tray with either brown buttercream icing for dirt, green buttercream icing for grass or grey buttercream icing for stone. Place one of the cakes in the center of the cake tray and place a plastic or fondant skeleton on the cake. Place the other cake askew on top of the bottom cake. Decorate the top layer with a fondant "R.I.P" sign and add the candy spiders around the cakes.
- Make a graveyard cake for a spooky Halloween event. Prepare two rectangular cakes, spread a layer of icing on the top of one cake and place the other cake on top. Spread a layer of chocolate icing over the entire cake. Create tufts of grass on the cake with green icing and a pastry bag with a small round icing tip. Roll out a sheet of grey fondant to a thickness of approximately 1/3 inch and cut 10 to 12 gravestone shapes from the fondant. Use a dark grey edible icing pen to add symbols and words to the gravestones. Insert a toothpick into the bottom of each gravestone and insert the opposite end of the toothpick into the cake. Add a black fondant fence around the cake as extra decoration.
- Prepare three 10-inch round cakes, bake them and allow the cakes to cool for three to four hours. Cut each cake in half. Apply a bit of icing to the bottom of a plastic dowel and press it down onto the center of a cake tray. Spread a thick layer of icing onto the cut edge of one of the cake halves and press it firmly lengthwise against the plastic dowel. Cover each side of the cake half with icing and repeat with the remainder of the pieces to make a circle of cakes around the plastic dowel. There should be a slight depression in the center for the Jack-o-lantern's stem. Alternatively, you can use a 3-D pumpkin cake pan to fashion the cake. Cover the entire cake in a thick layer of orange icing and draw lines and depressions on the cake that are similar to a real pumpkin. Cut out shapes for the eyes, nose and mouth from a sheet of black fondant and shape a stem from brown fondant.
- Prepare a cake for a Halloween party that is sure to entertain both young children and adults at the special event. Prepare one or two cake mixes into a large round oven-safe bowl. Bake the cake in the oven-safe bowl, allow it to cool and then cut off approximately 1 inch of the end with the smaller diameter so that the cake does not wobble. Cover a metal cake tray with foil wrap and place the cake on the tray with the cut end facing downward. Scoop out the top of the cake so that a small drinking glass will fit inside. Cover the entire cake in a layer of smooth black buttercream icing or fondant, and insert the drinking glass. At the party, add a few chunks of dry ice to the cup along with an ounce or two of hot water to make the caldron steam. Be sure to keep little fingers away from the dry ice.
