No Tricks Here! Treat Your Guests With These Scarily Good Halloween Cake & Dessert Ideas

No Tricks Here! Treat Your Guests With These Scarily Good Halloween Cake & Dessert Ideas

Halloween: a holiday known for its spooks and horrors but also sweet treats! It's the perfect holiday to demonstrate your creativity. From costumes to baked goods, it provides the opportunity for you to experiment with your crafting skills and express your imaginative side. Perfect for those hosting chilling celebrations or simply wanting to be prepared for neighbourhood trick-or-treaters, you can infuse a special homemade passion into your sweet treats this Halloween. Create a lively dessert table at your next Halloween party with detailed desserts and ensure your guests are well-fed. Or, swap the store-bought sweets out for cookies and cupcakes that will have trick-or-treaters leaving your front door feeling appreciated. Get baking this spooky season with these exciting Halloween dessert ideas.




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Crowd Pleasing Halloween Cakes

Looking for a sweet treat that doubles as an eye-catching table centrepiece to your Halloween celebrations? Look no further than our delicious and decorative Halloween cake ideas! You can recreate these spooktacular treats in your home with the right baking pans and trays, available at Spotlight!


Halloween Fault Line Cake

Halloween Fault Line Cake Project

Create a spooky centrepiece for your dessert table with this eye-catching cake. With black sanding sugars and candy eyeballs around the middle of the cake, using red icing around the outline of this decoration creates an illusion-like effect on the finished product of the cake.


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Bleeding Heart Cake

Deceivingly pretty and pink on the outside, this bleeding heart cake delivers a shocking twist with its bloody centre. Filled with fake, edible blood, this recipe will spark intrigue among your guests. New to the world of baking and icing cakes? Check out our guide that outlines 5 skills for icing a cake.


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Chocolate Graveyard Cake

Spark your creativity with this decorative cake. Stacked with a variety of Halloween themed decorative treats, this cake allows your imagination to run wild with your choice of decorations and their positioning around the cake. Deliciously chocolatey, this cake is both great to look at and incredible to taste.


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Take A Stab Cake

Take A Stab Cake Project

Test your building skills with this layered cake. The added touch of fake sugar blood is a popular choice amongst Halloween cake decorating ideas and instantly takes your Halloween to the next level when it comes to scare factor. Topped with a candy knife this cake is both delicious and decorative, making it the perfect addition to your dining table this Halloween.


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More Desserts to Try!

Perfect for handing out to trick or treaters or delighting your guests during haunted house parties, these sweet treats are easy to recreate in your kitchen to celebrate the spooky holiday in style. From Halloween cupcake ideas to cookies and doughnuts, you can find some great Halloween dessert inspiration right here.


Eye Scare You Doughnuts

Eye Scare You Doughnut Project

When it comes to Halloween dessert ideas you may be thinking of classic cakes and cupcakes, however another great and easy to create Halloween dessert is that of doughnuts. This delicious dessert is easy to serve up for both party guests and for trick or treaters and will bring an artistic accent to any dessert table.


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Creepy Halloween Cupcakes

Thinking of Halloween desserts may be tricky, but this is one of many Halloween cupcake ideas that is particularly easy to recreate. All you need is a cupcake baking mix, frosting and spooky lollies for the perfect finishing touch.


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Frightening Halloween Cookies

Cookies are a great option when it comes to Halloween dessert ideas. Easy to dish up to get desserts and easy to store when there are leftovers from parties or trick or treaters. This recipe allows you to get creative with many different shaped cookie cutters to use to create your very own cookies. There are a multitude of Halloween cookie ideas and designs to choose from!


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Peek-A-Boo Cupcakes

Bringing a pop of colour to your dessert table, these cupcakes are a fun and vibrant choice of Halloween cupcake ideas. This cupcake project allows you to experiment with a range of techniques and outlines how to recreate each of the three featured designs.


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Dreadfully Delicious Halloween Dessert Ideas

From cake decorating to Halloween cupcake ideas you can find a great range of dessert inspiration for your next Halloween party at Spotlight. Explore our Halloween Projects for more recipes and Halloween activities to celebrate the spooky holiday. And for those new to baking, be sure to check out our need to know basics for baking that will have you prepared for any recipe. Spotlight is the Home of Halloween and is here to inspire you with Halloween baking ideas and supplies to make your sweet ideas come to life!


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You can find everything you need for your Halloween baking projects right here at Spotlight. Shop online and enjoy the convenience of home delivery or shop in person at your nearest Spotlight store. Our baking range includes great products from cake mixes to icing, food colouring, edible decorations, piping tools and much more. Discover the range today!


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