I cannot make a cake for my kindergarter's class and I am the room mother!!!! My daughter's school will not accept anything, but store bought - so I have to order something from Wal-Mart. HOW TERRIBLE IS THAT!!!!
However, I have received an order for a halloween cake and I am making a scary tree stump (with eyes and mouth) and then with the mini-mold ball pans - I am making ghosts (covered with fondant) sitting around it. I then thought about sitting some of those candy pumpkins around. I have never done one so this newbie is keeping her fingers crossed. LOL!!!
I love Halloween!!!! I love holidays!!!!! I look forward to seeing all of your cakes, especially the haunted houses!!!!
this is what I did last year for my sons' class. I may do them again for my daughter's class because they're easy.
how did you make those??? Looks like a mini candi bar, choc. covered graham cracker?...and a cinnamon graham cracker base?? Is that all there is???/ or is there something under the candy bar??/
I'm going to a big Halloween party at a friend's house. There will be a lot of people coming and going, so I'm making a Haunted Mansion/Building (so far just in my head, so I'll have to see how it turns out to decide if it's a mansion or a building. I think it would be cool to incorporate some dry ice, somehow. I have to get through this week and then I'll put it all on paper and come up with more details. I'm excited about it and can't wait to see how it turns out!!!
Just be careful with the dry ice as it's not safe to be around food! Saw that on a food network Challenge and they had major points knocked off for a tiny bit of dry ice on the plate...away from the food.
I wonder if you could put a container with dry ice just behind the haunted house and have the mist creep around the building?? Sounds like it's gonna be cool
I made the Wilton candy corn cake and it turned out so cute - got a lot of compliments. I didn't tell anyone what would happen when you cut into it, so they just thought I had brought a strangely decorated cake until it was cut!
I'm also going to try the Mummy Head (using the Sports Ball Pan) that was posted in the gallery earlier this week. That one was adorable, and I hope would be pretty forgiving for my first attempt at MMF!
I love Halloween, probably my favorite holiday next to Christmas. I'm undecided as to a Haunted Castle or a Cemetery, which I plan on bringing to work and giving to the students along with staff. I'll also make a CCC to send to my DGD's preschool (no restrictions there yet!).
I can't wait to see all the cakes!
There's just some frosting slopped under the candy bar-I thought I'd have to use melted choc. to make it stick but regular ol' buttercream works just fine
dmaam, when u make the cake pls be sure to put up a pic. I love the scary tree stump idea!! How creepy!
Olana - thank you for the tips!!!! I am having a halloween party for the kids that I keep (I run a home daycare)and I am going to make them the graveyard and then I have to be at my daughter's party - 2:00p.m. for her Fall Party, but I have to order from Wal-mart for that. The cake order was actually given to me by a fellow cake-decorator because she is to swamped to do it (who is way-better than me), so I really hope that the scary tree stump turns out well.
Anyway, wish me luck. Good luck to all with your Halloween cakes as well.
I was really hoping there would be a Halloween cake decorating contest here - I had a Debbie Brown cake that was perfect for Halloween that I really wanted to try to make - still searching for the perfect fondant that holds up like hers though...... might have to go buy some online to try 
I want to have a little Halloween party and invite some kids from my daughter's Pre-K class and some adult friends, too. a 2-in-1, I guess. I have a cute Wilton pan with a ghost coming out of a pumpkin that I'm going to do, and I want to make a 3d pumpkin some how. I would also like to make a gingerbread haunted house. but all that stuff is what I WANT to do. I will prob. do it all except the house. I want to make one, so maybe I will get one done for Christmas.
My second grader wants a spider on a round cake with ghosts and stuff on the sides, I think he picked that because he knows how I feel about spiders. I still have to decide what to make for my husband to take to work, the guys pout if I don't send treats.
I have cupcakes I have to make for home and the Sunday before I promised my MIL cupcakes for her church.
Do you have any cute ideas for Halloween cupcakes? I'm making some for the school that I work in (kinder thru 8th)
I did blood shot eye cupcakes for my son's 1st grade class. they were a big hit. Just ice the cupcake white and smooth it out for the white of the eye. then I used light blue mmf and cut out circle about 1 in across, and put this on the center of the white. add a black pupil in the middle of that, and use red gel to draw blood shot lines on the white part.
Here's a link to some cupcake ideas:
http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/specialfeature/cupcake-finder-holidays/
i'm planning to do my very 1st topsy turvy cake for halloween, 1 tier will be a pumpkin, 1 will probably have a spider web and the other i'm not sure yet but all in halloween colors. My bday is on the 28th and i'm making this as my birthday gift to myself except i'll probably send 1 tier to dh work and give another to someone else and keep 1 for home. i cant wait, i'm excited to do it already. Making something new and something so exciting is actually the birthday present not the actual cake.
VWW104 - I just got an email from Wilton that showed about 6 halloween cupcakes. CHeck their site or send me your email address and I can forward it to you.
dara
Actually I just checked my email and I did get it, thanks!
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