Looking for truly haunting Halloween cake ideas? From jolly jack-o-lanterns to ghoulish ghost and goblin Halloween cakes, browse our collection of Halloween cake decorating ideas to find the perfect one for your celebration. Beginners and experts alike will find festive Halloween cake recipes and ideas with easy to follow, detailed instructions to create a delicious treat that everyone will enjoy.
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87 ideas were found matching your search criteria.
Jolly Jack-0-Lantern 3-D Cake
Difficulty: Easy
Our Jack-O-Lantern cake will make quite a statement at your Halloween festivities. Create yours using the Dimensions 3-D Pumpkin Pan.
Pumpkin and Ghosts Checkerboard Cake
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Bake up one spook-tacular cake this Halloween using the Wilton Checkerboard Cake Pan. Tiny piped pumpkins add border interest to this happy hallowed cake.
Fearsome Face Cake
Difficulty: Medium
Kids will love this googly-eyed monster cake outfitted with edible pretzel appendages. Create fearsome facial features, polka dots and arm and leg wraps with Sugar Sheets shapes and strips.
Powdered Face Cake
Difficulty: Easy
This has to be one of the easiest Halloween treats to make, ever. Just bake cake and brush with confectioners’. This spooky white, pale-faced skull with be the center of attention on your dessert table.
Mischievous Monster Cake
Difficulty: No reviews
Put this skull cake at the head of the table on Halloween! Made in the Dimensions 3-D Skull Pan, everyone will be staring at this friendly face, decorated with fondant hair curls.
Trouble’s Brewing Witch Cake
Difficulty: No reviews
Trick out the Wilton Wonder Mold Kit this Halloween by transforming it to a wicked witch. The Chocolate Pro Electric Chocolate Melter makes a great cauldron to dip cake pops into melted Candy Melts candy.
No Applause, Just Throw Candy Cake
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
This cutest little trick or treater would be the center of attention on your Halloween buffet table. Our Stand-Up Cuddly Bear Pan cake is covered with a fondant jack ‘o lantern costume, complete with hat and stem. Who could resist this sweet fellow?
Bat Hang-Out Cake
Difficulty: No reviews
Build a haunted house around stacked square cakes covered in black-tinted chocolate fondant. Use the gate, tree and bat patterns from our 2011 Pattern Book to create eerie gum paste embellishments.
It's A Slice Cake
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Choose your delicacy. A surprise in every piece. A finger here, an eyeball there. Something for everyone’s taste. And with the knife on top, each guest can serve himself or herself.
House with a Spirited View Cake
Difficulty: Medium
Pre-Baked, Pre-Assembled Halloween Cookie House is one House with a Spirited View! The sheet cake “cemetery” is inhabited by cookie ghosts that float among the cookie tombstones and pumpkin decorations.
What Beautiful Eyes? Cake
Difficulty: No reviews
New 3-D skull cake pan is sure to be a hit this Halloween! This gruesome design features a pair of bloodshot fondant eyes and gooey green piping gel accents.
Ghost Ship Cake
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Looks like a mutiny on the Bounty! Shaped cake flies the Jolly Roger while the ghostly crew flies about the deck.
Squirmy Wormy Pumpkin Cake
Difficulty: Easy
Decorate your own Medusa-like cake using the Wilton Jack-O’-Lantern Cake Pan. It’s sure to be a delightful fright at Halloween parties!
Pint Size Vampire Cake
Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult
Ever wonder what Dracula looked like as a child? This 3-D Halloween cake could be the answer! Sure to please your party guests, this creature of the night is baked using the Classic Wonder Mold and Mini Ball pans.
A Hoot and a Howl! Cake
Difficulty: No reviews
Stage a post-twilight scene atop a Halloween-hued cake. Use patterns from our 2011 Pattern Book and our Pumpkin Comfort Grip Cutter to shape seasonal fondant forms.
