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Get ready to wow your guests with these 42 easy Halloween cake ideas! From creepy crawly designs to ghoulishly fun decorations, these cakes are perfect for adding a spooky touch to your Halloween party. Whether you’re a baking pro or just looking for some simple inspiration, these creative cakes are sure to impress! ?️? #HalloweenCakes #SpookyTreats #HalloweenParty
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EASY Halloween Cake Recipes
Ready to bake up some spooky fun? These Halloween cakes are colorful, creepy, and guaranteed to bring smiles (and maybe a few giggles) to your ghostly gathering. Whether you’re planning a party for little monsters or just want a fun kitchen project for the family, these cakes are the perfect way to add some sweet scare to your celebration.
We’ve rounded up everything from cheerful Frankensteins to candy corn cuties and cakes that look like they’ve come straight out of a haunted bakery. Don’t worry—some are super simple with store-bought shortcuts, and others are ideal for those who love to go all-out with decorating. One thing’s for sure: these Halloween cake ideas are all treat, no trick!
10 Top Tips for Halloween Cakes
Have Fun With It!
Halloween cakes are meant to be silly, spooky, and playful—don’t worry about perfection. The messier, the better sometimes!
Start with a Cake You Love
Don’t overthink the flavor—chocolate, vanilla, red velvet, or even boxed mix works great. The spooky magic is all in the decorating!
Use Halloween-Inspired Colors
Think bold and bright: black, orange, green, purple, and candy corn yellow. Gel food coloring gives you the most vibrant results without watering down your batter or frosting.
Make It a Monster (Literally)
Create characters like Frankenstein, mummies, or ghosts using buttercream, candy eyes, and simple piping techniques. No sculpting skills needed!
Candy Makes Everything Better
Decorate with Halloween sweets like candy corn, mini chocolate bars, or gummy worms for an easy wow-factor—perfect for last-minute decorating.
Use a Bundt Pan for a Boo-tiful Base
A Bundt cake makes a great spooky shape with minimal effort—just drizzle with colored icing or add some plastic spiders for drama.
Try a Surprise Inside
Swirl food coloring into your batter or layer different colors to get a Halloween-themed reveal when you slice the cake—kids love it!
Add Texture with Piping Tips
Use a star tip for mummy “bandages” or grass tip for monster fur. Even beginners can get great effects with a little practice!
Make It Ahead
Most Halloween cakes can be baked the day before and decorated the morning of your party—just store them covered in a cool room.
Store-Bought Shortcuts Are Totally Allowed
Use ready-made frosting, cake toppers, or edible eyes to keep things easy if you’re short on time (or energy!).
Halloween Cake Inspo
From spooky drips to candy-covered monsters, these Halloween cakes are perfect for parties, school treats, or just a fun baking night at home!
Spooky Eyeball Halloween Cake
Spooky Eyeball Halloween Cake – We’ve got this thing going on right now where we LOVE googly eyes on Halloween cookies, and cupcakes and now this cake!
Salted Caramel Apple Snickers Cake
Half Baked Harvest – Wait a minute. Did someone say Salted Caramel Apple Snickers Cake? Oh my word. I might just have died and gone to candy apple Halloween cake heaven!
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Halloween Bundt Cake
Halloween Bundt Cake – Creepy colours all swirled together inside a bundt cake and drizzled with gooey frosting equals the perfect Halloween cake for a kid’s party!
Bloody Halloween Cake
Bloody Halloween Cake – If you’re trying to plan a Halloween party and your tween boy is acting like the whole thing is far too babyish for him to bother with… show him this cake!
Candy Corn Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Candy Corn Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake – Who doesn’t love a giant chocolate cookie? Especially when it’s turned into a cake and laced with candy corns. Oh my!
Frankenstein’s Monster Cake
Frankenstein’s Monster Cake – Isn’t he just the most adorable Frankenstein’s Monster you have ever seen? Love the twix as the bolts in the side of his head!
Vintage Halloween Cake
Vintage Halloween Cake – Wow how fabulous is this cake? Love that it is so simple with that white meringue frosting but add some black and white straws and mini bunting and you’ve got yourself a really striking Halloween cake!
Chocolate Chip Cake-Halloween Mummy Cake Recipe
Chocolate Chip Cake-Halloween Mummy Cake Recipe – If you’re looking for an easy Halloween cake that the kids can make with you then this is it. Super simple but super effective!
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How to Make a Halloween Decorated Cake Roll
How to Make a Halloween Decorated Cake Roll – Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this before… a cake roll that’s decorated on the outside!
Black Velvet Cake
Black Velvet Cake – Are you drooling right now? Because I am! Oh my goodness this cake is not going to last too long in our house this Halloween!
Candy Corn Cake
Candy Corn Cake – October wouldn’t be October without Candy Corn right? Which is why we know you will love this cake!
Black and White Tuxedo Bug Cake
You’ll Bug Out Over our Black and White Tuxedo Cake – Oh my goodness this cake looks absolutely beautiful… until you notice the bugs crawling all over it! The kids will LOVE this!
Halloween Monster Cake
Halloween Monster Cake – How amazing is this Frankenstein Monster Cake? And no one has to know that you made it using a Betty Crocker Cake Mix! Shhh!
Halloween Marbled Cake
Halloween Marbled Cake – From the outside this might just look like your typical chocolate covered Halloween cake. But when you cut it open your guests are in for a colourful surprise!
Bloody Halloween Maple Cinnamon Cake
Oh my! This cake is all exquisite beauty and blood stained at the same time! Your guests will be amazed by this maple cinnamon cake with lashings of coconut sugar, severed in half and dripping with salted caramel blood…
Bloody Halloween Maple Cinnamon Cake by Milk, Chai & Honey
Haunted Bone Church Halloween Cake
For something a little less sinister how about this churchyard cake with chocolate dirt and meringue bones!
Haunted Bone Church Halloween Cake by Lil Cupcake Monkey
Panna Cotta Brain
If you like panna cotta now is the perfect chance to serve it up all shaped like a brain, don’t forget the strawberry syrup blood for added spookiness!
Panna Cotta Brain by A Queen in the Kitchen
Halloween Edition Chocolate Oreo Cake
Three layers of fluffy chocolate cake teamed with delicious Oreo buttercream and decorated with spooky ghosts and Halloween sprinkles. This cake is a chocoholic’s dream!
Halloween Edition Chocolate Oreo Cake by Ana’s Baking Chronicles
Halloween Candy Cake
Ooh this takes buttercream frosting to a whole new level for Halloween! It looks all gruesome and delicious at the same time!
Halloween Candy Cake by Cake Whiz
Halloween Twizzler Cake
If you like your cakes to look a little less bloody then try this more sophisticated Twizzler cake instead! The black screams Halloween especially when paired with orange and yellow M&Ms.
Halloween Twizzler Cake by Cake Whiz
Candy Corn Cheesecake
Ok a cheesecake counts as a cake right? I mean it has the word cake in it after all. And how could I not show you this droolworthy option for your Halloween party centerpiece!?
Candy Corn Cheesecake by A Bajillion Recipes
Spooky Purple Velvet Cake
Move over red velvet because there’s a new color in town… and purple is such a great color for a dreamingly spooky Halloween cake! Oh and this cake gets bonus points for being gluten free and dairy free!
Spooky Purple Velvet Cake by Lila Ruth Grain Free
Vertical Layer Pumpkin Orange Chocolate Cake
Wow I’ve never seen a vertical layer cake before! How cool is that? With all that pumpkin and orange and chocolate deliciousness! This cake tastes so good you’ll want to serve it at your Halloween party and then make another for Thanksgiving!
Vertical Layer Pumpkin Orange Chocolate Cake by All That Jas
Halloween Skull and Dagger Cake
If the kids are begging for a really spooky cake for their party this year you really can’t go wrong with this skull and dagger cake! Alas poor Yorick!
Halloween Skull and Dagger Cake by Culinary Ginger
Monochrome Cake
Or for something totally sophisticated, or suited to a Nightmare Before Christmas themed party check out this jaw-dropping monochrome cake!
Monochrome Cake by Domestic Gothess
Rise from the Dead Mocha Meringue Cake
Ok I confess, I jumped out of my chair the first time I saw this cake! Just think of the reaction you’d get from your party guests!
Rise from the Dead Mocha Meringue Cake by B Sweet
Peekaboo Pumpkin Chocolate Loaf
Oh how cute is that! A little pumpkin that peeks out as you slice the loaf! This would be the PERFECT not so spooky cake for your toddler or preschooler Halloween party!
Peekaboo Pumpkin Chocolate Loaf by Love in My Oven
Spookalicious Checkerboard Gluten Free Halloween Cake with Marshmallow Ghosts
How about a checkerboard inside? That’s going to AMAZE your guests for sure! And whoot it’s gluten and dairy free too!
Spookalicious Checkerboard Gluten Free Halloween Cake with Marshmallow Ghosts by The Loopy Whisk
Halloween Sugar Cookie Cake
What do you do when you can’t decide whether to make a cake or a cookie? Why you make a cookie cake of course! This one would be fun to serve up at a Halloween playdate.
Halloween Sugar Cookie Cake by Lil’ Luna
Spiderweb Chocolate Tart
Ooh the filling in that chocolate tart is making my mouth water! I’m totally in love with those orange spiders too!
Spiderweb Chocolate Tart by Life, Love and Sugar
Marshmallow Spiderweb Cake
This spider on the other hand? Totally giving me the heebie geebies!
Marshmallow Spiderweb Cake by The Cake Blog
Bloody Good Cheesecake
Oh and here’s another cheesecake… because with all that dripping blood I couldn’t resist adding it the spooktacular list!
Bloody Good Cheesecake by Sugar Dish Me
Halloween Pumpkin Cake
Here’s another cake that would go down a storm at a party for younger kids. How cute is this little guy!
Halloween Pumpkin Cake by Mom Loves Baking
Candy Corn Cake
Ooh how pretty is this cake! Those candy corns look just like flowers!
Candy Corn Cake by Make Fabulous Cakes
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X Ray Vision
Ha! What a clever idea for a cake that’s a twist on the usual Halloween skeleton thing. And do you know the great thing about this? You could decorate a store bought cake and no one would be any the wiser… shhh!
X Ray Vision by Country Living
Monster Eye Cake
Ha! Love this! Especially as the monster eyes look all googly…
Monster Eye Cake by The Cake Blog
Oreo Spiders Cake
Ooh here’s fun choice if you love Oreos! Turn them into spiders and use them to decorate your cake!
Oreo Spiders Cake by Bird on a Cake
Glowing Ghost Cake
No way! A cake that lights up? That is seriously cool! And seriously simple to make too when you see the secret!
Glowing Ghost Cake by King Arthur Flour
Sweet Ghost Cake Topper
Ok this ones not an actual cake… just the topper. But oh my how sweet is this little trick or treater all dressed up as a ghost! You could put her atop a store bought cake, or a cake box cake, or a cake you make from your goto recipe!
Sweet Ghost Cake Topper by My Cake School
Halloween Bundt Cake
Here’s another bundt cake for you to try, this time all festively purple and green on the inside!
Halloween Bundt Cake by More or Less Cooking
Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Halloween Cake
Ok this one is for all you peanut butter fans out there! Would you look at the size of the spider on the top of that cake! Wow! And that chocolate frosting looks about an inch think! Yum!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Halloween Cake by Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
Chocolate Skull Cake with Hidden Strawberry Jello Brain
Oh my! Look that that skull all dripping with blood! This cake is a boozy one so the perfect choice for a grown up Halloween party!
Chocolate Skull Cake with Hidden Strawberry Jello Brain by The Flavor Bender
