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Spooky Skull Cakes

· Leah Leatherby

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We love spooky season! Not only do we get to decorate our homes with pumpkins, bats, and fall foliage, we get to make delicious festive desserts! This Halloween season we are making spooky skull cakes with an easy cake decorating hack that will be a total GAME CHANGER.

Mini cakes in the shape of skulls with brown and white frosting, sitting on a table with smoke all around them.

Spooky Skull Cakes

Materials you need:

First, you will need to purchase the skull baking sheet. Then you will need a box of cake mix and a tub (or two) of frosting. We ended up using a classic white/vanilla cake and both vanilla and chocolate frosting for our first batch of mini skull cakes, but you can use your favorite flavors.

Spooky Skull Cakes

How To Make Spooky Skull Cakes

Preheat the oven to the temperature on the back of the box and prepare the cake mix as directed. Spray the pan with non-stick cooking spray and then pour the batter into the pan. 

Place into the oven and bake as directed by the box, and then check on the cakes. You may need to add a minute or two of cooking time. Once the cakes have completely baked, remove them from the oven and allow them to cool. 

Cakes sitting on cooking rack with frosting poured over them. A hand holding Pillsbury Vanilla frosting.

Now, here is the hack that will make your life easier when it comes to frosting these cakes. Place your frosting containers in the microwave and heat for 30 seconds until the frosting has melted.

Skull cakes on a cooling rack with frosting poured over them, drying.

Make sure you place your skull cakes on a cooling rack with a cookie sheet or plate under the rack. Begin pouring the frosting over the cakes.

This is a great hack for frosting a full cake, too!

Mini cakes shaped like skulls with brown and white frosting.

You can get as festive as you want here, add some food coloring to the vanilla frosting (red, orange, purple, green – the options are endless), some fun sprinkles, or editable googly eyes. You can also take them in a whole different direction and instead of making spooky skulls, you can use the cake pan to create skull cakes for a Dia de los Muertos celebration and decorate them like classic sugar skulls.

No matter how you choose to decorate your cakes, these will be such a hit in your home. Just make sure you allow the frosting to completely cool before indulging in these delicious treats. 

About Leah Leatherby

Hi! My name is Leah Leatherby. I graduated from UC Davis with a BS in Textiles Marketing and Science. Since then, I have had four little ones – three boys and a girl. My life now consists of planning parties, baking cookies, and watching my kids. My husband has 75 first cousins alone, so we pretty much have an event every weekend! It keeps us busy, and lets me get my creative juices flowing.