“Creepy and Cute Halloween Cake Design Ideas”
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To help you get started scheming and designing your ghoulish confections, here are a few Halloween Cake Design Ideas. Try these or create your own spin-off's!
Haunted House; Sheet, Novelty Pan or Sculpted Castle.
This Halloween cake can be made in many ways.
1.Trim a sheet cake into the shape of an old Victorian house with gables.
Then pipe icing windows, doors, and other details, including cobwebs. Ghostly shapes are easy to pipe and fill in with snow-white buttercream icing. Add bats and other easy to pipe Halloween creatures.
2.Or you can use a novelty cake pan with the haunted house theme. Many of these come with decorations and instructions.
3.For a really exciting Halloween cake, try a haunted castle cake! Butter cakes works well. Stack two or more cakes, being sure to place supportive plates in between the layers. If the cake is large like a wedding cake, add cake dowels.
Towers can be created with upside down ice-cream cones or paper towel rolls, shortened to fit proportionally to your cake.
For edible towers, bake a pound cake in a jelly roll pan, and then using a cookie-cutter or glass, cut our circular pieces of uniform size. Skewer these, and then stick the skewered towers into the cake. Then ice them and pipe designs and windows.
For an amazing haunted house castle, think detail. For example, you could cut out windows and place inside kooky ghosts or other ghoulish figures (modeled with rolled buttercream, created with gum paste molds, or store-bought). You might even want to add a moat and drawbridge! Tuck green miniature lights behind the turrets and under the drawbridge for an eerie glow.
A basic set of confectionary tools will help you model your Halloween cake creatures. You can find these and all sorts of decorating supplies at the CandylandCrafts website.
If you model your Halloween cake figures with gum paste, creations will dry hard and last for years, but the children won't enjoy the taste much.
Marzipan's expensive, and this almond paste isn't as much of a hit with kids as grown-ups. Your best bet for your Halloween cakes is Rolled Buttercream. It's a great tasting icing dough that can be easily modeled or molded.
Frankenstein's Bride; Vintage Halloween Cake
Here's a spin off from our charming doll cake that is made with a Barbie type doll and a cake dress. Use a doll with black hair.
Tease the hair so it's all puffed up and then paint the lightening stripes up each side of her hair do. (For a humorous version, you could make her hair stand straight up).
Paint her face a pasty white, add make-up (search online for "Bride of Frankenstein doll" and "Bride of Frankenstein costumes" for ideas.
Cover the negligee dress with smooth, white buttercream and maybe add some black spiders and lacy impressions.
Another idea: A vintage 60's Halloween doll cake could be fashioned after the Adam's Family's Mortisha.
Jack o' Lantern Bundt Halloween Cake
This is an easy Halloween cake for cake decorators new to cake sculpting. Young children will adore a Jack o' Lantern cake with a cute or goofy expression, while most older kids will get a kick out of an outlandish or spooky face.
Start with 2 bundt cakes (butter, pumpkin and pound cakes work well).
Then after leveling and icing the bottom of the cakes, fit them together to form the pumpkin. Cover the pumpkin with smooth, orange buttercream.
Then pipe and/or use rolled buttercream to model the facial features. Pipe green leaves on top and add a stem made of rolled buttercream or an upside-down ice cream cone, iced with green.
Last, but not least, here's an important Halloween Cake tip. The amount of liquid food coloring needed to create black or dark brown icing will probably give your icing a bitter taste.
To avoid making a Halloween cake that tastes creepier than it looks, try one of these ghoulishly clever tips:
1-Use gel, paste or powder coloring. They're concentrated, so you won't need as much.
2-Begin with dark chocolate buttercream, and you'll need even less.
3-Instead of black icing, cover plain buttercream with crushed, dark chocolate cookies, and use licorice and such for spiders and bats.
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“ Jack o' Lantern Halloween Cake; a Bundt Cake Treat!”
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Just as Jack o' Lanterns can inspire laughter, the heebie-jeebies, or a round of "Trick or Treat!" so can your sculpted Jack o' Lantern cakes!
If you're new to cake decorating or cake sculpting, you'll find the Jack O' Lantern cake is fun and easy. And, if you're already experienced, you will have all the more fun by adding intricate details. Either way, this Jack o' Lantern Halloween cake is sure to light up faces at your next Halloween party.
Jack o' Lantern Cake Instructions
Before you whip up a batch of buttercream, take out a piece of paper and sketch some Jack o' Lantern faces. If you have kids at the house, enlist their help. Searching "Google Images" for Jack o' Lantern will also deliver lots of ideas. Once you've narrowed down your favorites to a final selection, practice drawing it to make the piping easier.
Ready? Here we go!
1. Bake 2 Bundt cakes. Coincidentally, pumpkin works like a charm for a Halloween sculpture cake because of its firmness (see recipe below). Butter cake works well too.
2. After releasing and cooling the 2 cakes, level the bottoms.
3. Ice the bottoms with orange buttercream (non crusting is best for this project). Place one upside down, and the other on top, so the iced bottoms fit together.
4. Now, cover the cake with orange buttercream. As you smooth your icing, you can work with the natural indentions left by the Bundt pans that mimic the vertical lines on a real pumpkin.
5. Using the orange buttercream, pipe the outlines of the facial features. If you make a mistake, just smooth it and start over.
6. Now for the fun part! Here are a few ideas for creating the details of your Jack o' Lantern's face.
a. Fit an icing bag with a small star tip and fill with chocolate buttercream. Fill in the eyes, nose and gaps between the teeth.
b. After completing the step above, add details such as pupils to the eyes with icing candies, like M&M's and black licorice.
c. To make your Jack o' Lantern glow, use yellow gel instead of buttercream (remember not to cover the teeth and other places that would be left intact in a real Jack o' Lantern).
d. Instead of piping facial features, bring Jack to life by modeling eyes, nose, teeth and any other features you want to add (eyebrows?) with rolled butterceam icing or marzipan.
7. Just like a real Jack O' Lantern your Bundt o' Lantern will have a hole in the top. Here are a few ways you can put the lid on Jack.
a. Cover an ice cream cone with green or chocolate buttercream and using icing, adhere this upside down over the hole in the top. Then using a large leaf tip, pipe a few green leaves around the top.
b. Model the stem and leaves with rolled buttercream.
c. Save just enough batter from the recipe below to make a cupcake. Trim it for the stem shape you want and adhere with icing to the top.
And here's your pumpkin cake recipe!
Halloween Pumpkin Cake
Note: This pumpkin cake makes a great treat for grown-ups too, and it's even more devilishly delicious with a buttercream and chopped nuts icing.
4 cups canned pumpkin
6 cups sugar
2 cup vegetable oil
6 eggs
6 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cloves
2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp ground nutmeg
Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour 2 10-inch Bundt pans. Blend the pumpkin, sugar, oil, and eggs. Sift remaining ingredients into a separate bowl. Mixing as you add it, spoon the pumpkin mixture into the dry mixture. Blend well. Pour the batter into the prepared pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the middles comes out clean (around an hour and 15 minutes). Allow cakes to cool in pans for 5 minutes. Release, and after completely cooled, decorate.
Serving Tip: This is even better tasting and easier to work with after mellowing overnight, covered in the refrigerator.
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If you liked these ideas, you're gonna love our Thanksgiving Cake article!
Last but not least, here's one more tip. The quantity of liquid food coloring needed to concoct Halloween brown and black will bring a bitter flavor to your buttercream. Here's what you can do to keep the ghoulish elements in the design and out of the icing:
- Instead of liquid food coloring, opt for the more intense gel or paste forms. Can't find these locally? Try CandylandCrafts.com
- Use chocolate for brown and start with dark Chocolate for black (and you won't need as much black food coloring).
- Skip the chocolate and food colorings, and use instead candy and cookies. String black licorice works great for outlining. Crush, dark chocolate cookies or crumble dark chocolate cake to use to fill in large areas, like around Jack's teeth.
Happy Halloween Cake Making!
Samantha Mitchell, Co-AuthorCake Decorating Made Easy! Vol. 1 & 2The World's First Cake Decorating Video BooksSign up for for fantastic cake decorating tips, tricks and secretsof the pros at http://www.cakeanswers.com
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