Having a girl with a Halloween birthday makes looking at Halloween cakes even more fun. We usually don't have birthday cake on Halloween because the night is already so full of sugar, but these spooky Halloween cakes make it hard to resist.
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Showing posts with label Halloween cake. Show all posts
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10/29/2008
Halloween Birthday Desserts
These are the ones that didn't make my cut. Mostly because I am running out of time and fun stuff keeps popping up (like a flat tire and a Halloween costume that didn't fit). So much for planning ahead and starting the costumes in September!
I want to make an obnoxiously elaborate attempt for a Halloween birthday cake. Something like this one from The Cake Artist:
And oh how I have ideas! A cute mummy instead of the green monster. The pumpkin on top, but with a layer of ghosts instead of a graveyard. But then I wake up and remember that Halloween is in 2 days!! And I remember that when I start a project that is overwhelming I get overwhelmed. (Amazing how that works! ) I become OBSESSED and my house falls apart and I turn into a grouchy monster. Not really a good idea when I have two school Halloween parties and Toots birthday party all on the same day! So sadly I have to pass. Maybe next year!
Now this spiderweb cheesecake from Martha Stewart would have made the cut if I had a spring form pan. I need to remember to put that on my wish list.
And one of my FAVORITES, is Martha's haunted house cake. This one is truly Martha. You have to make and freeze cookie dough for these haunted house cookies. Then use this template (Halloween Cake 2) to cut them out. Assemble. Bake and frost a cake and about 58 hours later you have this:
And honestly I love love love this cake, but it doesn't scream one year old girl to me. And thank goodness it doesn't because if it did my husband might leave me in my attempt to create this!
I want to make an obnoxiously elaborate attempt for a Halloween birthday cake. Something like this one from The Cake Artist:
And oh how I have ideas! A cute mummy instead of the green monster. The pumpkin on top, but with a layer of ghosts instead of a graveyard. But then I wake up and remember that Halloween is in 2 days!! And I remember that when I start a project that is overwhelming I get overwhelmed. (Amazing how that works! ) I become OBSESSED and my house falls apart and I turn into a grouchy monster. Not really a good idea when I have two school Halloween parties and Toots birthday party all on the same day! So sadly I have to pass. Maybe next year!
Now this spiderweb cheesecake from Martha Stewart would have made the cut if I had a spring form pan. I need to remember to put that on my wish list.
And one of my FAVORITES, is Martha's haunted house cake. This one is truly Martha. You have to make and freeze cookie dough for these haunted house cookies. Then use this template (Halloween Cake 2) to cut them out. Assemble. Bake and frost a cake and about 58 hours later you have this:
And honestly I love love love this cake, but it doesn't scream one year old girl to me. And thank goodness it doesn't because if it did my husband might leave me in my attempt to create this!
10/28/2008
Halloween Birthday Cake
We are down to the wire and I have still not decided which cake/cupcake I am making for Toots first birthday. Since she is a Halloween baby, I want to have a Halloween themed cake, but I still want it to be a cute cake for a little girls first birthday.
I think this one from Martha might be the one:
Those cute tiny ghosts just made it hard to resist! I think the cake needs the black cake platter though. And I don't have one. Yet.
I think I am just going to make her a small ghost cake. Just for her. And for everyone else I might have to do a cupcake tower because there are just too many fun Halloween cupcakes to choose from. My current favorite are these bat cupcakes from I heart cuppycakes.
You frost the cupcake yellow (for the moon) and then decorate with chocolate bats. I was a little nervous about the bats until I saw this:
She printed of a picture of a bat and then put wax paper over it. She used melted chocolate to fill in the shape and then put it in the freezer to dry!
I think I am going to get started on the bats this afternoon (see how they go) so my cupcake nightmare is over. Now I just have to come to terms with the frightening fact that my baby will be one in only two more days.
I think this one from Martha might be the one:
Those cute tiny ghosts just made it hard to resist! I think the cake needs the black cake platter though. And I don't have one. Yet.
I think I am just going to make her a small ghost cake. Just for her. And for everyone else I might have to do a cupcake tower because there are just too many fun Halloween cupcakes to choose from. My current favorite are these bat cupcakes from I heart cuppycakes.
You frost the cupcake yellow (for the moon) and then decorate with chocolate bats. I was a little nervous about the bats until I saw this:
She printed of a picture of a bat and then put wax paper over it. She used melted chocolate to fill in the shape and then put it in the freezer to dry!
I think I am going to get started on the bats this afternoon (see how they go) so my cupcake nightmare is over. Now I just have to come to terms with the frightening fact that my baby will be one in only two more days.
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