Overall Rating: 4.8/5
Preparation Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
If you fancy injecting some creepiness to the Halloween festive season, Halloween cakes are just amazing as they add a sweet, but spooky note to your celebration! As we have seen, baking cakes is independent of one’s experience and regardless of whether you are a first-time or experienced baker looking for Halloween cakes for kids, you will find something that suits you.
This blog will show you some of the best and most terrifying Halloween cakes that will make your party incredible. So without further ado, let’s take a look at some Halloween baking ideas!
A Brief History of Halloween Cakes
- Origins in Samhain: Cultural Halloween evolved from the old Celtic party called Samhain: people used sweets, including cakes, to discourage ghosts.
- Soul Cakes Tradition: Supposedly, in the medieval period folks used to prepare ‘soul cakes’ to celebrate All Souls’ Day by offering them to children who would say prayers for the dead.
- Modern Era: Today, Halloween cakes have become cute and creepy novelty ideas for this cheerful holiday, freedom, and horror.
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Ingredients for Spooky Halloween Cake
For a basic chocolate Halloween cake base, you’ll need:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- ¾ cup cocoa powder
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
For decoration (choose your level of spookiness!):
- Black food coloring
- Orange food coloring
- Edible eyeballs, gummy worms, or fake spiders
- Chocolate frosting
- White fondant or buttercream (for ghostly decorations)
Steps to Make Your Scary Halloween Cake
Step 1: Preheat your oven
Set it to 350°F (180°C). Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease two 9-inch round cake pans.
Step 2: Mix dry ingredients
Stir flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a big bowl.
Step 3: Add wet ingredients
Then add eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla to the mixture. Mix well, then slowly incorporate the hot water into the mixture. It will be a very thin batter which is just what you want for this casserole.
Step 4: Bake
Skeletonize the preparation of the batter by pouring half into each pan and baking for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick can be inserted and come out clean. Let cool completely.
Step 5: Prepare the frosting
If you are planning to make chocolate frosting or buttercream, you may add food coloring to make it have a black and orange color.
Step 6: Decorate
Here’s where the fun begins!
- For an easy Halloween cake: Spread orange frosting all over your cake and then put in edible eyes to complete the spooky but easy theme.
- For a scary Halloween cake: Use black frosting to cover the cake and then use white fondant or buttercream pipe with a spider web design on it. Add some real live insects or fake spiders or worms such as gummy worms for an extra-special scare!
Step 7: Finishing Touches
Include any other Halloween decorations such as tombstones, small pumpkins, ghost sugar paste, etc. Go ahead and put your creativity up on the block!
Nutritional Information (per serving)
- Calories: 380 kcal
- Carbohydrates: 56g
- Protein: 4g
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Cholesterol: 45mg
- Sodium: 280mg
- Fiber: 3g
- Sugar: 40g
Top 3 Halloween Cake Ideas
- Graveyard Cake: A chocolate cake with tombstone cookies, marshmallow ghosts with gummy worms burrowing through crushed chocolate cookies.
- Mummy Cake: Ice the cake with white buttercream and then make eyes on the cake the ‘mummy’ covering the body part of the cake should cover the eyes but not fully.
- Witch’s Cauldron Cake: A cauldron cake with frog slime green-colored frosting inside the pot; gummy eyes and frogs around the pot.
Halloween cakes are as much fun and creative as you want them to be while baking them. These are pretty much going to steal the thunder of your Halloween party considering that we are talking about Halloween cake here or more specifically scary Halloween cake. Remember to post pictures of your creations on Facebook and Twitter and invite your friends to view them as a fun way to scare yourself silly!
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