Creepy Skull Cake

Make no bones about it, this Creepy Skull Cake is a great treat for your Halloween party! Simple enough for decorators of all skill levels, this cake can be completed in only a few easy steps. Best of all, the Skull Shaped Cake Pan has holes for the eyes, nose and mouth of your skull, so your cake comes out all ready to decorate!

Prep1 hr 15 min
Total Time3 hr 15 min
Skill LevelBeginner

AmountServes 12

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Your favorite boxed cake mix or cake recipe
Black Food Coloring Icing Color, 1 oz.
Black Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz. $2.52
2 1/2 cups Creamy White Decorator Icing, 4 lb. Tub

Tools
Skull Shaped Cake Pan, 9.5 x 12 Inch
Halloween Non-Stick Skull-Shaped Cake Pan, 9.5 x 12-Inch $9.23
Expand and Fold 16-Inch Non-Stick Cooling Rack
Decorator Preferred 9 Angled Spatula
Disposable Decorating Bags
Round Cake Decorating Tip 2
Round Cake Decorating Tip 2 $1.90
Toothpick

Instructions

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Bake and cool cake. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees or temperature specified by chosen cake recipe. Fully mix together batter. Pour cake batter into the prepared skull cake pan and then place the pan in the oven.
Bake the cake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, it should take a little over 30 minutes. When done, remove it from the oven and make sure the cake cools completely before decorating.
Tint icing and prepare decorating bags. While the cake is baking, use the black icing color to tint 1½ cups of the creamy white decorator icing, black, while reserving the remaining white icing.
Prepare one decorating bag with tip 2 and 1/3 of black icing. Prepare a second decorating bag with the remainder of the black icing and cut a small tip in the bag.
Decorate the cake. With the cut decorating bag, ice the sides of eyes, nose and mouth cavities of the cake with black icing using a spatula.
Next ice the top of the cake with the reserved white icing, allowing some black icing to mix in with the white.
Finally, using the decorating bag with tip 2, pipe random lines and smudges on the skull, spreading it across the cake with a spatula.

Notes

How To

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Icing Coloring Color Chart
When mixing color, always mix a small amount of color to experiment. Start with base color and then add very small amounts of secondary color. Be sure to mix enough color for the cakes to be decorated as it is difficult to match an exact color.