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    Home » Recipes » Cake Decorating Tutorials

    Haunted House Cake! - A Cake Decorating Video Tutorial

    October 15, 2014 By Melissa Diamond 23 Comments

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    Learn how to make a creepy Haunted House Cake in this free Halloween cake decorating video tutorial!

    This festive haunted house cake is perfect for Halloween parties! It's great for any age, and incorporates a few of my favorite cake decorating techniques: a waxed paper transfer, buttercream piping, and painting on buttercream!  

    Enjoy the tutorial, and be sure to check below for our list of materials!

    Haunted House Cake

     

    Cake Tiers

    In this video, we are working with an 8 inch tier, and a 6 inch double barrel tier.  (We explain double barrel {"Tall"} cakes in a separate video if you are interested in learning this technique.)

    We've frosted the tiers with our crusting Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream from the recipes section and stacked (with bubble tea straw supports) as usual.

    Each tier is on its own cake board.  The double barrel has an extra cake board with supports within it.)  Please see our video on tier stacking if you have any stacking questions!  

    Materials for Haunted House Cake

    Vanilla Buttercream (We used our crusting Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream recipe from our Recipes section but our Classic Vanilla Buttercream is a good choice also.

    Black Fondant for the silhouette

    Piping Tips: Small round tips for the tree, gate, etc. :  We used Wilton tips 1 & 2

    Viva paper towels (Optional, but I used the Viva method for smoothing buttercream. You could also use the hot knife method of smoothing buttercream or go with a textured look!)

    Food Coloring:  Super Black, Orange,  Lemon Yellow, Bright White (I used Americolor, use whatever brand you like.)

    Vodka or lemon extract (I mixed a little vodka with my yellow & white coloring gels to create a paint.)

    TEMPLATE

    Sharp Knife or X-acto blade

    Waxed Paper

    Shortening

    Piping Gel

    Fondant rolling pin

    straight pin (for the pin-prick method)

    Black Food Coloring Pen (We used an Americolor Pen.  If you don't have one, dip a toothpick into a paint of black coloring gel + vodka to add your details.

    Haunted House Cake

     

    Notes on the Haunted House Cake:

    While my cake is buttercream, this design could easily be transferred to an all-fondant cake.

    Windows for haunted house 

    We painted our buttercream yellow for the windows, but if you'd rather, you can either frost that section of cake in yellow buttercream before applying your house, or you can place very thinly rolled pieces of yellow fondant to the back of your haunted house.

     You could even pipe buttercream into the windows with a thin piping tip.  I do like the variation of color that painting gives though!

    haunted house Gate

    Don't feel confined to my haunted house gate design.  If you don't feel comfortable piping the scrollwork of the gate, you can use fondant to create a decorative entrance instead, or a simpler piping pattern.  

    Remember, piping the doors of the gate so that the bottom and top of each door is slanted will give you the feeling that they are opened.

    Haunted House Template

     

    Haunted House Cake Tutorial

     

     

    More fun Halloween cakes to Try

    We have more fun Halloween Party cakes to share with you, including a Fun Haunted House Cake! This carved haunted house cake is bright green and decorated with candy and other spooky accents. 

    Here are just a few others for you to check out! These are all free tutorials!

    Ghost with Balloons Cake- Free Cake Video

    Pretzel Monster Cake- Free Video Tutorial - So cute and easy!

    Monster Sheet Cake- Free Cake Video

    Trick or Treat Ghost Cake Topper- Free Blog Tutorial

    You can find our full collection of favorites here: Favorite Halloween Cakes!

     

    Enjoy the Video!

    We hope that you enjoy this Haunted House Cake! If you give it a try, we would love for you to leave a comment and photo below!

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    1. Melissa Diamond August 26, 2016 at 8:50 am

      Hi Michaela- I'm so glad to hear that you all liked the cake! Happy decorating!

      Reply
    2. MARIE CHANEY September 16, 2016 at 12:39 pm

      Fantastic tutorial amazing detail I will have to try and make this for my grandchildren, Melissa can you tell me where you purchased your turntable please.

      Reply
    3. Melissa Diamond September 16, 2016 at 12:48 pm

      Thanks Marie! It's just an inexpensive Wilton Trim and Turn like this one:

      https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012Q5QIM/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0012Q5QIM&linkCode=as2&tag=mycakcom-20&linkId=247c619581109ac6c016972b2c997ae7

      It's funny, I have a very nice metal turntable also but the plastic one is what I use most of the time ;0)

      Reply
    4. Shelby Willard October 10, 2016 at 9:44 pm

      Love the design! Do you put anything on the back the cake or just leave it blank?

      Reply
    5. Melissa Diamond October 10, 2016 at 10:00 pm

      Thanks Shelby! I didn't decorate the back but if you'd like, you could carry the spooky trees all the way around! ;0)

      Reply
    6. Isabella Smith March 8, 2018 at 8:18 am

      This cake is awesome! I love the theme of the cake too. I just got a membership for my B-Day. Can't wait to see all the videos!

      Reply
    7. Linda Stone August 4, 2018 at 8:20 pm

      I have made wax paper transfers before. I laid the paper over a design and fillled it in with buttercream then froze it. When solid I applied it to a buttercream cake and rubbed the back until the design stuck to the cake and then pelled the wax paper off. Could I use this method with the haunted house?

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    8. Melissa Diamond August 5, 2018 at 12:28 am

      Hi Linda, a frozen buttercream transfer could possibly work, although I've always placed them on top of the cake rather than in the front and so I can't speak from experience on that. If the house is small enough that it won't extend past the top edge of the cake, and that it won't need to bend with the curve of the cake, it could be an option.

      The fondant would be easiest, but if you'd like to avoid fondant, I would probably go with a frozen chocolate transfer (with black candy melts/coating) as it would be a little more sturdy on the front of the cake than a buttercream transfer. I hope this helps!

      Reply
    9. Linda Stone August 5, 2018 at 3:13 am

      You are right, candy melts make much more sense. I will let you know how it works and send you a photo come October.

      Reply
    10. Lesle Swan October 14, 2022 at 4:53 pm

      i'd like to make this cake for Halloween, but can't seem to locate the video tutorial. I just keep getting sent back to this page. Hope I'm not missing something super obvious!

      Reply
      • Melissa Diamond October 14, 2022 at 6:35 pm

        Hi there! It was at the very end of the post but I wonder if the fact that it had an ad at the front was hiding it from you (if you by chance have an ad blocker)? I've just posted an ad-free version at the bottom of the page- see if that solved it for you! ;0)

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