Halloween Cakes

Halloween gives cooks the opportunity to get creative in the kitchen. There are numerous ideas for spooky holiday cakes. From pumpkin cake to spider cheesecake, there are a number of ways to add Halloween images to a cake recipe. Helpful videos that offer a visual demonstration of how to cook and decorate cakes for Halloween are available in the Halloween food section of the Mahalo website.http://www.mahalo.com/category/halloween-food

Halloween cakes can be as simple or as elaborate as a cook wants to make them. The complexity can depend on the person's kitchen prowess and the amount of time he or she wants to spend on the project. If there are children in the home, Halloween cake baking and decorating can become a family activity. The entire family can enjoy creating holiday-themed desserts and devouring the finished product.

One idea for a Halloween-themed cake is to add some orange food coloring to a white cake, bake it in a sheet pan and top it with chocolate frosting. Once this is done, the cook can stick small plastic or candy grave stones on top of the cake. Next, he or she can use green icing to create a grass-like effect. This will create a scary Halloween graveyard. Bakers may want to add plastic or candy ghosts, ghouls, skeletons and bats to enhance the effect. A cook can also decorate a sheet cake with a crashed UFO model and some aliens for a Martian crash Halloween cake.