25 Amazing Halloween Cake Ideas

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Need Halloween cake ideas that will wow your guests this Halloween? If your friends and family love frightening treats, try these 25 Halloween cake ideas to make your fall ghoulishly fun.

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Are you looking for Halloween cake ideas that will be a hit at this year’s Halloween party? Using one of these 25 Halloween cake ideas will send shivers down everyone’s spine. Here you’ll find cake pop pumpkins and Halloween cakesicles which are perfect for children’s parties. Want something a little scarier? Try out the Mummy cake to have everyone crying for their mummies.

If you need more Halloween snacks, trick or treat yourself to these recipes.


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Expert Tips for Making Halloween Cakes

  • Last Minute Dessert: Need a last minute dessert for a Halloween party? Buy a sheet cake or cake mix to assemble your monstrous treat.
  • Halloween Candy: Grab your spare candy to decorate these treats. Candy pumpkins and marshmallow ghosts make the perfect topper for cakes, or melt chocolate to coat your cake pops and cakesicles.
  • Piping Bag Substitution: Not everyone has a piping bag laying around to decorate. Try a ziplock bag instead. Fill the bag with your favorite colored icing and cut a small hole in the corner.

Cake Pop Pumpkins

Cake pop pumpkins are ready to be picked right in your kitchen. Nothing screams fall more than pumpkin spice. These are the perfect desserts to make with the kids. Make them realistic or decorate them with your favorite seasonal goodies like pecans or sprinkles. These ghoulish jack-o-lanterns will have everyone asking for seconds.

Adorable jack o lantern pumpkin cake pops
Pumpkin Cake Pops
These Pumpkin Cake Pops are adorable and delicious little bites of joy. Crumbled pumpkin cake mixed with cream cheese then dipped in an orange coating, these pumpkin spiced cake pops are perfect for Halloween or as a fall treat.
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Vibrant pumpkin cake pops
Pumpkin Cake Pops [+ Video]
Save yourself a trip to the pumpkin patch! These adorable pumpkin cake pops look like they were just plucked from the vine.  Crumbled cake mixed with frosting, dipped, and served on a stick make the cutest and festive fall treats.
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Pumpkin Cake Pops Recipe
Pumpkin cake pops make a festive treat packed with pumpkin spiced cake and cream cheese frosting. It is super easy and topped with candy melts.
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Pumpkin spice cake pops with chocolate drizzle
Pumpkin Spice Cake Pops
Pumpkin Spice Cake Pops are perfect for a Fall Baby Shower or your Thanksgiving dessert. If you need a dessert recipe for any type of party and want to impress the guests just make a batch of cake pops.
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Pumpkin cake pops with pecan halves
Pumpkin Cake Pops
These cake pops are perfect for pumpkin spice and pecan lovers. Made with real pumpkin puree, these cake pops are perfect for fall.
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Mummy Cake

Mummy cake can be terrifying or cute. Don’t fret, this is not your typical vanilla mummy cake. Some of these recipes include funfetti, apple, cherry and more.  With options this good, it’s a perfect wrap for the Halloween season! Trick or treaters will go wild for the mini mummy cakes.

Mummy Cake
This mummy cake is just as delicious as it is cute! It's made with oreo and funfetti cake layers, and frosted with a homemade vanilla buttercream.
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Mummy mallow cake recipe
This terrifying marshmallow mummy cake is a real Halloween showstopper that's sure to impress your guests. Vanilla-flavoured sponge sandwiched with a gory cherry jam and creamy coconut filling – with just a few simple decorations this Halloween bake really comes to life. 
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Mummy cake with bloodshot eyes
How To Make an Easy Mummy Cake
If you're looking for an easy Halloween cake idea, you can't get easier than this cute and simple mummy cake.
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Mummy cake with candy eyes and pie crust wrapping
Yummy Mummy Apple Cake Recipe
This mummy apple cake is as easy to make as it is scary. No one will believe it's made with cake mix.
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Easy No Bake Mini Mummy Cakes
These adorable mini mummy cakes are an easy no bake Halloween treat idea that the kids will love to make for all of their friends.
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Frankenstein Cake

Frankenstein cake is Dr. Frankenstein’s favorite new invention.  Wow your guests with this vibrant green monster cake. Try one layer, two, or four to step up your Halloween party. Pick your favorite cake mix for this Spooktacular creation and get creative while decorating. Cute or creepy, this cake is hair-raising!

Green Frankenstein monster cake with black icing hair
Frankenstein Monster Cake
Enjoy this creatively decorated monster cake – perfect dessert for a Halloween celebration.
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Adorable green Frankenstein cake
Easy Halloween Frankenstein Cake
Make this cute Frankenstein head cake for your next Halloween party! Use your favorite recipe or box mix to easily customize the flavor or stick to the classic chocolate cake.
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Cute green Frankenstein cake with
Frankenstein Cake
This Frankenstein cake is the perfect Halloween dessert! It’s made with moist green velvet cake layers and cream cheese buttercream frosting.
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Spooky Frankenstein cake with knife in head
Frankenstein Cake
Convenience items like a cake mix and canned frosting make this clever dessert a breeze to prepare. It always elicits oohs and ahhs at Halloween parties.
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Green Frankenstein cake with candy face
Frankenstein Cake
Looking for a creative dessert? Then check out this Frankenstein cake – perfect for Halloween.
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Halloween Cakesicles

Halloween cakesicles are the perfect way to step up your baking game this Halloween. If you love cake pops, you’ll obsess over these. They’re just as spooky as Halloween cake pops, but with more cake! With crumbled cake mixed with rich frosting or cream cheese, every ghoul and goblin will be knocking on your door for this spooky treat. Mummies, bats, zombies -oh my- the opportunities are endless!

Various cakesicles including a spider web, pumpkin and Frankenstein
Halloween Cakesicles
Cakesicles are a stepped up version of cake pops. Round up the kids for this fun and easy recipe that is sure to be a hit.
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Spooky orange cakesicle with candy eyes and chocolate drizzle
Halloween Cakesicles
I’m all about celebrating Halloween with an equal amount of spooky goodies and fun whimsical treats. These Halloween Cakesicles are super fun to put together and will bring a good amount of whimsy to any Halloween celebration.
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Adorable mummy cakesicles with candy eyes
White Chocolate Mummy Cakesicles [Kid Approved]
If you’re not familiar with cakesicles, they are like cake pops but… MORE cake and MORE chocolate! What could be better than that? These mummy cakesicles are made up of white cake with a white chocolate coating and candy eyes.
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Various Halloween cakesicles including a mummy, bat, and more
Halloween Cakesicles
These Halloween cakesicles are a super fun and cute Halloween treat! Perfect for a spooktacular party or as wonderful homemade trick or treat candy.
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Halloween Cakesicles
Looking for fun Halloween treats that are so easy anyone can make them? These Halloween Cakesicles are the cutest cake pop alternatives that can be customized in a ton of different ways and are a fun dessert to make with kids!
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Halloween Dirt Cake

Halloween dirt cake is spooky, delicious, and oh so cute. No need to beware of the graveyard this year, these are too tasty to avoid. Decadent chocolate pudding, crumbled cookies, and your favorite Halloween candy will bewitch your family and friends. It’s hard to believe this pudding mix isn’t casting you under a spell.

Spooky dirt cake with cookie gravestone and candy
Halloween Dirt Cake
This Halloween dessert is a little spooky, a little silly, and a lot delicious! Add a cookie graveyard to your Dirt Pudding Cake and invite the ghouls and ghosts out to party!
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Halloween Dirt Cake
Dirt cake is one of our favorite desserts. Everyone loves Oreo cookies so I am always looking for an excuse to make dirt cake. So we decided to make a Halloween dirt cake and it turned out so cute.
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Dirt cake graveyard with delicious ghosts, worms, and cookie gravestones
Halloween Graveyard Dirt Cake
Halloween Dirt Cake is a fond memory from childhood. Cake topped with chocolate pudding is made to look like a spooky dirt graveyard with crushed Oreos and gummy decorations.
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Graveyard Dirt Cake
White chocolate pudding and Oreo Graveyard dirt cake is EASY, festive and perfect for Halloween! It can be on the table in 10 minutes!!
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Halloween Oreo Dirt Cake
It is layered with pudding, crushed Oreos, and gummy worms…My Halloween Dirt Cake is a fun and festive twist on this classic layer cake.
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