Help with Halloween cake for kid's carnival?

Question

I have to provide two cakes for my kid's carnival. The form does not say "provide" a cake it says "make" a cake, and goes on to give all of the instructions for turning it in. I did ask and it is ok to buy one, however, I would like to buy one and add something to it. Any ideas for turning a plain pound cake into a Halloween cake are much appreciated. Seriously, ANY and ALL ideas appreciated!!!!!!


Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I would think that maybe an orange or black frosting, and then add spider rings or something along that line to it.. or take and trace out a cat and a full moon shape, and if you do orange frosting, do the cut outs in black.. something like that

Answer 2

Try adding some circus peanuts cut in half along the bottom (feet) and red licorice whips for antenna's, some candy corn for fangs.

When you frost it add some gummy worms and leave parts of them hanging out the sides. Lots of things you can do. You didn't say if the cake was round, loaf or square so you could transform it into a mini monster, a grave or a bug.

Answer 3

Make a cake that looks like a pumpkin with store bought things.

Get two pound cakes (bundt stlye, with a hole in the middle), a couple of tubs of vanilla frosting, orange food color (or mix yellow and red - just remember the red goes a long way!), a twinkie, a jumbo tootsie roll, and 2-3 green laffy taffy.

Put one of the pound cakes UPSIDE DOWN on the serving plate (cover a circle of cardboard with aluminum)

Place the other pound cake right side up, directly on top of the first pound cake. This makes your pumkin shape.

Stir the orange color into the vanilla frosting tubs and cover the whole thing in orange. use your spatula to smooth the frosting from bottom to top to look like the ridges of a pumpkin.

Put your twinkie in the middle hole of the pound cake. This is the stem of the pumpkin.

With clean warm hands roll the tootsie between your palms to soften it and make it look like a twisty vine coming out of the middle and down the side.

Use the green laffy taffy pieces to make leaves. Soften the taffy in your hands and shape it like play dough. Place the taffy leaves along the toostie vine.

I did this for my daughter's class one year, and everyone liked it so much, they hated to eat it!

added PS: I answered this last night -- Today I went to the drugstore and the front cover of one of the ladies magazines had one of the pumpkin cakes on it.

Answer 4

Use black frosting and a decorating tip. Draw circles from the outside edges and all the way to the middle. Draw them on top of the cake and use a tooth picl and run the toothe pick from the edge of the cake to the middle spaced out about 3 inches apart. That whould look like a spider web. Add a blob of black and make legs out of frosting for spiders.

Answer 5

This Halloween poke cake would work fine with purchased pound cake. I'm giving you the link online so you can see how it looks...pretty nice looking and great Halloween colors, don't you think?

http://www.kraftfoods.com/recipes/CakesPiesCheesecakes/CakesOther/HalloweenPokeCake.html

Answer 6

i would turn it into a graveyard using smashed oreos and and u can by tombs stones to put on top of the cake or be creative and use different Candy's. u can also make a which cake by free handing the witch with icing and add paint ice-cream cone black with some frosting

Answer 7

smush up some orange crap. Throw in a little black substance. Spread mixture over cake. Pour on 1/2 cup of Clorox for taste. Add pieces of plastic for texture.

Answer 8

try watching the food network.They are showing a lot of ideals for Halloween.They have alot of every simple but cool looking cakes.

Answer 9

You can get creative with icings, M&Ms and gummy worms.
Here is a web site that is designed for Kids and Food on Halloween.
Good luck!!

Answer 10

We used to host an annual Halloween sleepover. We began this whilst my oldest grew to become into somewhat youthful. we don't do it now via fact all his pals have moved (we are militia). i could pass all out with decorations. i could submit streamers and balloons. i could play a cd with spooky track for musical cushions (extremely of chairs). We had video games like pin the nostril on the jack-o-lantern and we could use a pretend spider for warm potato.i could do the familiar spaghetti and grapes trick. permit the youngsters sense the spaghetti jointly as blind folded. tell them that's monster guts. The grapes are eyeballs. I continually made pizza yet placed the toppings directly to look like a jack-o-lantern. My husband could help me carve oranges to look like jack-o-lanterns and we could fill them with chocolate ice cream for dessert. I in lots of cases had some books picked out for spooky tale time. faster or later interior the night my husband could attempt to scare the youngsters. we could make popcorn for later and whilst it have been given late we could enable them to camp interior the front room jointly as staring at Scooby Doo (spooky yet age suitable). i could continually have a craft project. in case you will locate the foamies those are the least puzzling. they have all sorts of Halloween shapes with sticky backing. the youngsters merely peel off the paper and place the shapes on their foam background to create a image. you are able to in lots of cases locate those at pastime foyer or Michaels. interior the mornings i could make a great breakfast and characteristic the parents come around 10 to %. up their youngsters. i could have goodie luggage finished of Halloween themed products and that i could permit each baby take a helium balloon. Halloween is a extensive deal in our domicile and it grew to become into so relaxing sharing it with my son's pals. We nevertheless pass all out yet now that's merely the kinfolk. stable success and characteristic relaxing!