Halloween Cake & Cupcake Ideas

Jack O' Lantern Cakes

Use a half sphere baking pan to make two cakes. These spheres will join to make a 3 dimensional pumpkin shape. Use orange frosting to cover up the cake and give the pumpkin mouth and eyes using black candies. You can also use little pumpkin sprinkles to cover the cake.

Assorted Candy Cake

Bake a simple cake and frost it in the Halloween colors of orange, black, red etc. Get a wide assortment of cake sprinkles. Use witch hats, skulls, black cats, broomsticks, pumpkins, eyeballs etc and load the cake with these sprinkles. It would be quite a sight and children will love it.

Cake Toppers

Cake Toppers are often used for decorating Halloween cakes. Different types of cake toppers are present in the stores. From cake decorating kits to edible images, many varieties can be found for decorating a cake. Haunted houses, graveyards, coffins, skulls, zombies look good as decorations. Different signs saying 'peek-a-boo', 'R.I.P' and 'Happy Halloween' are also used for decorations.

Assembling and decorating Cupcakes for Halloween has always been a fun task. There are a lot of ways in which you can decorate a Halloween cupcake and as many ways to assemble them.

Cauldron Cupcake

For making cupcakes like a witch's cauldron you will need some chocolate cupcakes (baked or bought), vanilla pudding and chocolate frosting, pretzel sticks, neon green food colour, some cookie sheets and bowls for mixing different ingredients.

If you are baking the cupcakes then make sure they are properly cooled before you proceed. Store-bought cupcakes can be used after tearing off their lining. What you need to do is invert the cupcake over and carefully carve out the middle of the cupcake by a spoon. Be careful not to hit the bottom of the cupcake so that the filling doesn't leak out.

Take a microwave safe bowl and melt the chocolate frosting in it for about 2o seconds or until it is rich and properly melted. Dip each cupcake in the frosting separately using a spoon to cover the sides. Make sure you leave the top(hollowed out area) clean. Put the cupcakes on a cookie sheet to avoid much mess.

Now add some neon colouring to the vanilla pudding and mix it properly adding more color until you get the right color of spooky! Fill the cupcakes with the pudding.

Now sprinkle green sanding sugar or sprinkles on the pudding. You can also use skull sprinkles etc if you want to make it look like skeleton brew. Insert a liquorice rope into the sides of the cupcake to make the handle. Use pretzel stick as the stirrer. These will be a hit on the Halloween party!

Now a days many cupcake decorations can be easily found in the markets. Spooky cupcake wrappers and stands are available for assembling the cupcakes. A variety of cupcake sprinkles, toppers, cupcake rings etc can be used for decorating the cupcakes in a fun way without creating much mess.