| If you're celebrating Halloween with a party this | | | | create a large spider, either with frosting or with |
| year, chances are that you'll want to have a | | | | non-edible decorations like a black pom-pom and |
| stunning cake to wow your guests. Here are | | | | pipe cleaners. |
| three Halloween cake ideas to get your creative | | | | Scary: |
| juices flowing. | | | | A scary Halloween cake is perfect for more |
| Haunted House: | | | | grown-up gatherings. Body parts are a great idea: |
| For those who are ambitious in the kitchen, a | | | | a cake in the shape of a severed hand, skull with |
| haunted house makes a perfect Halloween cake. | | | | oozing green filling, or bleeding heart can all be |
| Take one sheet cake and frost with black or | | | | simple to make but have a huge effect on your |
| brown frosting for the base of the cake. Then, | | | | guests. If you can't find a cake pan in the shape |
| with a second sheet cake, cut up pieces of cake | | | | that you want, get creative and look at other |
| to construct a "house" which is held together on | | | | cake pans that you might be able to use to |
| top of the base with frosting (and wooden | | | | achieve the shape you want. If all else fails, just |
| skewers, if necessary). Then frost the house and | | | | make a sheet cake and cut it into the required |
| add windows, doors, scary pumpkins, and spooky | | | | shape. |
| bats. A graveyard beside the house with creepy | | | | Your next Halloween cake can be as tame or as |
| ghosts and spindly trees is an added bonus. | | | | spooky as you like it. The important thing is to |
| Kid-Friendly: | | | | have fun with it and make it a truly unique part of |
| For kid-friendly fare, a spider web Halloween cake | | | | your celebration. When the sugar highs wear off |
| is great. Cover a plain round two-layer cake in | | | | and the costumes have been tucked away into |
| black frosting. Then, pipe on white frosting in the | | | | the closet, everyone will remember the effort |
| shape of a spider web. In the center of the web, | | | | you put into making your Halloween cake special. |