Make a creative cake for your Halloween party.
You don't have to be a professional baker to make a cute or spooky Halloween cake for the next party you throw. Don't simply make a layer cake with "Happy Halloween" written on it in orange and black. Create a cake shaped like a Halloween icon or with creative decorations all over it. Does this Spark an idea?
Jack-O'-Lantern
Make a Halloween cake that looks like a jack-o'-lantern. Mix up your favorite cake batter and pour it into two bunt pans. Choose bunt pans with scalloped edges for more of a pumpkin look. While the cakes are baking, prepare orange frosting. Some specialty baking stores might have premade orange frosting, but you can make it easily yourself. Simply use white frosting and add yellow and red food coloring until you have a bright orange color. Then, turn one cake upside down and put a layer of frosting on what is now the top. Place the other cake on top of it. This will give you a pumpkin shape. Frost the rest of the cake with orange icing. Use black icing to draw on a jack-o'-lantern face.
Bats
Make this easy cake decorated with bats for your next Halloween party. Bake two layer cakes in the shape of your choice. Choose rectangular, round or square. Next, frost the cake with white icing. For the decorations, purchase black fondant at your local grocery store or baking store. Fondant is a thick, smooth, sweet substance that is commonly used for decorating cakes. You might be able to find sheets of fondant. If not, roll the fondant out until it is about a quarter-inch thick. Then, use a bat-shaped cookie cutter to cut out bat shapes. The bat shapes should easily stick to the frosting on the cake. Put them all over the cake. If you want, choose a large, plastic bat figurine to place into the top of the cake.
Mummy
Create a cake that looks like a mummy. Use a large ball-shaped baking pan that is available at many specialty stores. If you can't find one, simply bake your cake in a large oven-safe bowl. Once the cake is done and cooled, frost it with chocolate icing. Next, take out some white fondant. Roll the fondant out to about a 1/4-inch thickness. Then, cut the fondant into strips that are about 1-inch wide. Place the fondant strips all over the cake so it looks like a mummy's wrapping. Leave a section open at the top of the cake so that you can still see the chocolate frosting. In that section, place the mummy's eyes. Make the eyes out of yellow and black fondant. Create two balls out of the yellow fondant. Place them onto the cake and top them with smaller black fondant disks.
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