The guests at your Halloween party 2022 or potluck will be raving about these cakes long after the festivities have ended. For your Halloween dessert table, you really can’t go wrong with any of these cute and eerie cake ideas, which range from a graveyard mud cake to a forbidden forest cake and everywhere in between. Imagine how fantastic your assortment of Halloween cookies will look when displayed alongside a towering layer cake frosted to look like a spiderweb.
Sprinkles, frostings, and even meringue “bones” are utilized in imaginative ways to decorate the cakes in this collection. The collection is themed on Halloween. You shouldn’t let the menacing embellishments scare you off, because making these cakes is actually a lot of fun. You and the children might choose to decorate them as a way to celebrate Halloween and the holiday. Pick your favorite sweet treat from among several options, such as recipes for pumpkin pie, sheet cakes, trifles, and more.
1. Pumpkin Trifle
This “trifle” is full of fall flavours. This spiced cake with gingersnap cookies, whipped pumpkin, and cream cheese filling is hard to believe. Get Recipe
2. Pumpkin Patch Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
This cake is delicious any time of the year, but it becomes especially appropriate for the Halloween season when chocolate peanut butter pumpkins are added to the top. Get Recipe
3. Pumpkin Spice Cake
Pumpkin spice is in season during Halloween, so this cake idea is perfect for October. If you want sugary goodies, use lots of caramel glaze. Get Recipe
4. Spiderweb Cake
Nothing can stand in the way of your undying love for chocolate cake, as evidenced by this wonderful cake. Nothing scares them, not even spiders. Get Recipe
5. Ghost Cake
Ghost meringues top this easy dessert. The red velvet cake idea is more Halloween-appropriate than chocolate. Ghost cookies might go well with the cake. Get Recipe
6. Spider Trifle
The combination of pumpkin mousse, chocolate cake, and Cool Whip in this Halloween trifle is simply divine. You couldn’t keep away from this autumn treat if you tried. Get Recipe
Also See: 15 Best & DIY Halloween Decoration Ideas
7. Spiced Pumpkin-Molasses Cake
This very tasty cake doesn’t even need icing; just a smart stencil and some powdered sugar will do the trick. Get Recipe
8. Towering Haunted House Cake
Ready for the ultimate trick-or-treat baking challenge? One is here, and it’s satisfying. This frightening building is built from two cakes and all the trimmings. Get Recipe
9. Sneaky Snake Cake
Add venom to a round cake with a snake template and black nonpareils. You can buy a cake or make your own with the recipes below. Then print the guide and use it to trace the snake outline onto parchment. Cut parchment into a stencil using the template, then fill it with nonpareils. Get Recipe
10. Chocolate Pumpkin Cake
This Halloween, satisfy your cravings for both chocolate and pumpkin spice with a deliciously unique cake that’s perfect for any celebration. Get Recipe
11. Frankenstein Cake
Creep out your guests with some food colouring in the vanilla cream cheese frosting and some spooky candies on top of these gigantic cinnamon swirl cakes. Get Recipe
12. Pumpkin Patch Cakes
While you wait for It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown to start playing on the television, you may indulge in these delectable bite-sized snacks. Get Recipe
13. Moon Cake
A simple chocolate cake is given a festive Halloween spin when decorated with sugar cookies in the shape of bats. Get Recipe
14. Spider Cake
You’ll need a cake mix from a box, some frosting from the shop, and some black sanding sugar to make this magnificent treat. You can get all of these ingredients at the grocery store. Get Recipe
15. Classic Chocolate Cake with Frosting Web
Simply by inserting toothpicks into this classic chocolate cake, you can quickly change it into a terrifying Halloween dessert in under a minute. Get Recipe
16. Forbidden Forest Cake
The mere sight of this dessert sends shivers up our spines. A marshmallow web forms the base, while spooky but delicious peanut butter-pretzel spiders serve as the finishing touch. Get Recipe
17. Pumpkin Cheesecake
If you dress it up with some caramel sauce, candied nuts, and whipped cream, this traditional pumpkin cheesecake may double as a tasty Halloween treat. Get Recipe
18. Salted Caramel Apple Cake
An apple cake with spices is perfect for the season. Add some spooky twigs to the caramel apples, and you’ve got a delicious Halloween to treat. Get Recipe
19. Skull Cake
If you impress your pals with this Skull Cake, you’ve done something right. Create a sugar skull in honour of Dia de los Muertos, or decorate it in the style of a traditional skull. Get Recipe
20. Cookie Monster Cake
Adding chopped Oreos to anything boosts the flavour, so this layer cake is the perfect holiday dessert. Even a beginner baker can do this. The ganache layer hides icing flaws. Get Recipe
21. Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake
We wouldn’t have it any other way, but this isn’t your typical light and airy Bundt cake; instead, it’s thick, dense, and oozing with peanut butter flavour. Get Recipe
22. Chocolate Haunted Forest Cake
The perfect world would have all creepy crawlies constructed entirely of sugar. This chocolate cake is ideal for Halloween because of this very reason. Get Recipe
23. Pumpkin Spice Cake
Although this cake isn’t very scary, it is a beautiful (and tasty) way to commemorate the Halloween season thanks to its cream cheese filling and meringue topping. Get Recipe
24. Flourless Fudge Cake
Are you hosting a Halloween party and need a gluten-free dish? Use white icing in eerie shapes to decorate this delightfully black cake. Get Recipe
25. Poison Apple Cake
You may give this sweet something spooky by finishing it off with a chocolate glaze and placing a “poisoned” apple on top of the green icing as a decoration. Get Recipe
26. Halloween Pumpkin Candy Pail Cake
The younger generation will undoubtedly enjoy this candy that is both colourful and sweet. Get Recipe
27. Meringue Bone Palace Halloween Cake
This spooky cake is sure to give your guests the willies. Add some “blood” in the form of berry coulis to the meringue bones for an added spooky touch. Get Recipe
28. Death by Chocolate Cake
The chocolate in this cake is so decadent that it will make any chocoholic kill for it. The ultra-rich dark chocolate buttercream and cake crumbles sit on three layers of dense dark chocolate cake. Get Recipe
29. Meringue Bone Cake
You don’t need to be quite so anxious. These bones were made out of a delectably airy type of meringue called meringue. Get Recipe
30. Spiderweb Cake
This stunning Halloween cake is brought to life with layers of buttercream in an orange taste. The creepiness of the atmosphere is amplified by the installation of spider web pipework. Get Recipe
31. Graveyard Cake
Your insatiable desire for chocolate will finally be satisfied thanks to the espresso-flavored base of this cake and the bittersweet chocolate icing that tops it. Get Recipe
32. Double Chocolate Bundt
For an extra boost of cocoa flavour and to keep the adults alert for a long night of trick-or-treating, use the strong brewed coffee in the cake mixture and frosting. Get Recipe
33. Spiced Pumpkin-Molasses Cake
The face of the welcoming jack-o’-lantern that adorns this reassuring pumpkin cake is created with sprinkles made of confectioners’ sugar. Get Recipe
34. Creepy Halloween Cake
This mouthwatering cake will have your visitors pleading with you for more of it. Get Recipe
35. Halloween Candy Cake
Maybe the simplest cake recipe you’ll cook all holiday! Use any leftover Halloween treats as a garnish on top. Wow, that’s some delicious candy. Get Recipe
36. Monster Eye Cake
This googly-eyed cake is a treat for amateur and professional bakers alike. Large and little chocolate sandwich cookies, icing, and Junior Mints go into its construction. Get Recipe
37. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake
When you cut into this pumpkin spice cake, you’ll discover a surpriseβchocolate chips hidden everywhere throughout the batter. Get Recipe
38. Snake Cake
This snake-shaped rice crispy treat is so simple to put together, but it will make your Halloween party the talk of the town. Get Recipe
39. Halloween Cat Cake
It is in your best interest to seek out a meeting with this shadowy black cat. You’ll be purring with delight as you take a bite of this scrumptious chocolate cake, ganache, and buttercream filling. Get Recipe
40. Coffin Cake
Because it is covered in so many thick layers of cream cheese icing, this pumpkin loaf cake is designed to look like a mummified mummy. Get Recipe
41. Monster Mash Cake
This green cake with black frosting is the perfect alternative to the traditional orange Halloween dessert. Green, purple, and black sprinkles in the shape of monsters are included. Get Recipe
42. Graveyard Dirt Cake
Create a creepy graveyard by placing cookie tombstones and candy pumpkins on top of a traditional dirt cake. Both making and eating them are plenty of pleasure. Get Recipe
43. Spider Web Cheesecake
This cheesecake is pure decadence from its chocolate crumb crust to its luscious mocha fudge inside. Make spider webs in a unique way and add a spooky twist for Halloween. Get Recipe
44. Skeleton Cake
This creepy cookies-and-cream cake will give you chills down to your toes. Simply make use of white chocolate and Halloween candy molds to create a tasty skeleton decoration. Get Recipe
45. Giant Mummy Cookie Cake
This monstrous biscuit is decorated like a Halloween mummy with white cream cheese icing in crisscross patterns. It’s perfect for midnight munchies. Get Recipe
