22 Scary Halloween Cakes and Cupcakes Recipes
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Get creative this spooky season with these scary Halloween cakes. From creepy crawlies to gruesome ghouls, these cakes are sure to give your party guests a fright! For more creepy treats see my Halloween page.
Halloween is upon us and that means it’s time to get creative in the kitchen! I have collected some of the most impressive and scary Halloween cakes for inspiration!
My husbands birthday is right before Halloween and we always have some kind of celebration with creepy treats.
I am always looking for the best creepy halloween birthday cakes to celebrate his big day! With this collection of creepy recipes, I am positive I will be able to create a horrific masterpiece instead of trying to find one to purchase.
Scary Halloween Cakes
A cake is only as good as its topping. And sometimes, those toppings can be pretty darned scary. Here are some of the most spine-tingling, hair-raising cakes out there.
Chocolate Cakelets with Pomegranate Glaze
Yummy sour cream & coffee chocolate cakelets with pomegranate glaze for a spooky Halloween treat!
Boozy Chocolate Skull Cake with Hidden Strawberry Jello Brain
This cake is the perfect union of delicious, gruesome and spectacular! White chocolate skull cap that you melt by pouring the bloody custard sauce to reveal the jello brain hidden inside! So scary!
Halloween Toffee Apple Cake
This cake has ghosts, blood and so much toffee apple flavor!
Halloween Cake with Eyeballs
The cake is chocolate with a healthy cream cheese frosting, canned lychees + blueberry eyeballs and strawberry jam “blood".
Easy Halloween Monster Cake
Sprinkles are just the thing to add to this monster cake! You are sure to love how colorful and delicious this recipe is!
Halloween Graveyard Cake
This cake is just the thing for anyone who loves chocolate… death by chocolate that is.
How to Make a Marshmallow Spiderweb Halloween Cake
This cake is so tasty you might want to spin your own web around it to keep everyone away.
Wicked Defying Gravity Cake
This cake defies the laws of gravity to make a creepy cake that everyone will want a slice of.
Black Cocoa Halloween Layer Cake Recipe ~ Barley & Sage
Black cocoa cake covered in black cocoa buttercream and topped with marshmallow spiderwebs and ghost meringues!
Jack-o-Lantern Treat Bucket Cake
This cake looks just like a jack o lantern! It is sure to be an attention grabber at your Halloween party.
Kitty Litter Cake Recipe: Gross Halloween Party Food
Gross to look at, but so good that you will savor this kitty litter cake.
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Halloween Cupcakes
Don’t want to make a whole cake? Creepy cupcakes are the perfect way to add a little bit of spookiness to your Halloween party. They’re easy to make, and since they are bite sized, they are a sure hit with your guests.
Halloween Black Sesame Eyeball Cupcakes
Cupcakes are just the thing to serve to friends at a Halloween party. This recipe is totally decadent and perfectly creepy.
Bleeding Black Cupcakes - Halloween Cupcakes
How scary are these? Wow who knew you make bleeding cupcakes!
EASY Bloody Halloween Cupcakes
With edible broken glass and fake blood, this cupcake has a super delicious strawberry cheesecake flavor with cream cheese frosting and strawberry sauce as blood! Yum, I mean, ew!
Graveyard Cupcakes
Sweet Graveyard cupcakes with meringue ghosts and tombstones!
Zombie Brain Halloween Cupcakes
Just make brains out of frosting and drizzle with red food coloring icing for this super easy yet chilling cupcake!
Easy Bloody Eyeball Halloween Cupcakes
The lychee eyeballs on these cupcakes ad that super creep factor!
Easy Halloween Cupcakes
Easy fudgy chocolatey cupcakes that are super cute for Halloween!
Creepy Halloween Monster Werewolf Cupcakes Tutorial
Super cool werewolf faces and werewolf paws cupcakes made in 20 seconds with a grass piping tip!
Slime Monster Brownie Cupcakes!
Cute and creepy slime monsters made with homemade slime and candy eyeballs.
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