Hi everyone! This colorful and fun Haunted House Cake is perfect for Halloween parties!

In this video, I'll demonstrate the simple construction used for this cake as well as the decorating process which uses lots sprinkles, candies, and a few additional details that I created for the project!

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We loved making this fun haunted house cake and hope that you enjoy it!

There are lots of options for decorating the house and so have fun changing it up with your favorite colors, candies, and more. If you give the cake a try, we would love to see your creations!

Thanks for stopping by, and don't miss our other Halloween Cake Videos and Step by Step Tutorials which you can find here (including our other Haunted House (Silhouette) Cake): Roundup of Favorite Halloween Cakes

Materials for our Fun Haunted House cake:

You can find the full, printable instructions for this colorful haunted house cake further down in this post!

For this video, I used a Duncan Hines Cake mix substituted in place of White Cake mix in our White Almond Sour Cream Cake Doctored Mix Recipe (minus the almond). I divided the batter between four 6 inch square cake pans.

I treated the four cake layers like two separate, filled cake tiers on their own cake cardboards cut down to size.

Simple Construction for House Shaped Cake

The bottom "tier" is the main part of the house. The top "tier" was carved into a triangular shape. I inserted 5 bubble tea straws cut to the height of the bottom tier before stacking on the top tier (on its own cake cardboard) and crumb coated the house.

Freeze to firm things up as needed for about 20 minutes. I usually freeze after crumb coating to firm things up before applying the final coat of frosting.

Decorating Supplies

Fondant for windows/door- (I kneaded a little tylose powder into mine but that is optional- it helps it to dry. more quickly)

Black Candy Melts for shutters, iron fence, etc. (You can also use candy bark coating tinted with oil based candy colors)

Coloring Gels: Americolor Electric Green,

Piping Tips: Tip 1 (or similar) for spider webs, 352 leaf tip

Food coloring pen- Optional- I drew on the door handle.

Templates- These are the shapes I used. Feel free to change things up!

Buttercream- I used our Classic Vanilla Buttercream recipe.

Candy/Sprinkles of choice- I used a couple of bags of candy corn, miscellaneous Halloween sprinkles/google eyes, mini (pumpkin spice) Kit Kats for stairs (optional). My Jack-o-lanterns were by Wilton (found at Michaels) but you could also make your own from fondant.

**I forgot to mention in the video but across the top of the roof is an orange chocolate covered pretzel which I found in the Halloween section in Target.

Miscellaneous: Disposable Piping Bags, bench scraper/spatula, turntable (optional),

Gingerbread House Cake- Same Shape, Different Season!

We have a very similar cake that we like to make at Christmas! Our Gingerbread House Cake is made in the same way, but without the creepy shutters, candy corns, and spider webs- and it is made with a Gingerbread Cake Recipe.

You can find it here! Gingerbread House Cake Video Tutorial

Enjoy the Video!

Thanks so much for stopping by. We hope that you enjoy the video. If you give our haunted house cake a try, we would love for you to leave a comment and photo below!

Fun Haunted House Cake - A Cake Video Tutorial

Learn how to make a fun, colorful Haunted House Cake in this free cake decorating video tutorial! This cake would be perfect for Halloween parties!

Materials

For this video, I used a Duncan Hines Cake mix substituted in place of White Cake mix in our White Almond Sour Cream Cake Doctored Mix Recipe (minus the almond). I divided the batter between four 6 inch square cake pans. Fondant for windows/door– (I kneaded a little tylose powder into mine but that is optional- it helps it to dry. more quickly)
Black Candy Melts for shutters, iron fence, etc. (You can also use candy bark coating tinted with oil based candy colors)
Coloring Gels: Americolor Electric Green,
Piping Tips: Tip 1 (or similar) for spider webs, 352 leaf tip
Food coloring pen– Optional- I drew on the door handle.
Templates– I'm linking in the Notes section
Buttercream– I used our Classic Vanilla Buttercream recipe.
Candy/Sprinkles of choice– I used a couple of bags of candy corn, miscellaneous Halloween sprinkles/google eyes, mini (pumpkin spice) Kit Kats for stairs (optional). My Jack-o-lanterns were by Wilton (found at Michaels) but you could also make your own from fondant.
**I forgot to mention in the video but across the top of the roof is an orange chocolate covered pretzel which I found in the Halloween section in Target.
Miscellaneous: Disposable Piping Bags, bench scraper/spatula, turntable

Instructions

I treated the four square layers like two separate, filled cake tiers on their own cake cardboards cut down to size.
The bottom “tier” is the main part of the house. The top “tier” was carved into a triangular shape.
I inserted 5 bubble tea straws cut to the height of the bottom tier before stacking on the top tier (on it’s own cake cardboard) and crumb coated the house.
Freeze to firm things up as needed for about 20 minutes. I usually freeze after crumb coating to firm things up before applying the final coat of frosting.
Add the final coat of frosting (I used buttercream tinted electric green).
Create the melted candy coating and fondant accents- door, windows, shutters, gate, etc.
Decorate with additional spider web piping , apply candy corn "shingles", short Kit Kat stairs (optional), etc. Decorate the cake with whatever sprinkles and candies you like!

Notes

Templates for windows, shutters, door, etc.