Halloween Cake Ideas
Graveyard Cake: Bake a sheet cake - it’s entirely up to you if you want to make layers or not. Cover your cake in white fondant tinted with a brown-green color. Crush up Oreo cookies and place shredded coconut in a baggie with green food dye. Cut lady finger cookies in half and cover in melted chocolate and pick up a food coloring pen. Write things on to the lady fingers and stick in to the cake. Make mounds of cookie dust in front of them and sprinkle the green coconut flakes to make grass.Kitty Litter Cake: As gross as it sounds it’s intriguing to make. Purchase chocolate and vanilla crunchies and process them slightly. Make 2 sheet cakes and choose a filling. Buy a real litter box and litter scoop. Once your cake is made put the bottom layer in to the cat pan, add the filling then the second cake. Ice the top and sprinkle liberally with the crunchies. Make chocolate butter cream icing and make rough streaks in the “litter”.
Haunted House: This type of cake can go one of two ways. The first is very basic. A sheet cake with piping using a thin tip to draw the outline of a house then fill it in with whatever items you feel a haunted house needs. The second is more extreme by cutting blocks of cake, stacking them and reinforcing them with rods. Create fences using melted chocolate and parchment paper. The same technique can be used with royal icing. Windows can be made as can ghosts and shutters. The cake can be covered with poured fondant or iced.
Bleeding Head: Much like the haunted house cake you will be making at least 5-8 9” round cakes. Stack them and reinforce with dowels. Carve the cake with a sharp serrated knife in to a face. Cover the cake with chocolate modeling clay paying attention to the details of the face (mouth, eyes etc.). Make a food dye wash with water and black food coloring then paint on shadowing. Chiclets gum or royal icing can be used to make the teeth. Prior to putting the modeling chocolate on the cake inject it with red syrup. You may also remove the top of the head, scoop out some and add strawberry jam. If you want to be gory you can create an eye out of a small balloon by filling it with strawberry jam until large enough for the eye socket. Place one end of a tube inside the balloon taping it in place then slide the tube through the head to the other side and attach the other end to a squeeze bladder. Squeeze it until the balloon expands and pops.
You can go simple by buying pans through Wilton in the shape of haunted houses, various monsters, pumpkins, and the like.
