Yahoo News Halloween party food ideas for kids: The best spooky cakes
Halloween is fast approaching and we are looking to our favourite bakeries to bring something spell-binding to the table.
The spookiest time of year marks the perfect opportunity to treat yourself and your family to a feast of sweet treats and these devilishly delicious dream cakes with a gruesome twist are just the ticket.
With frightening sugar spider embellishments, cheeky cauldron biscuits and scarily good M&M-filled piñata bat cakes, these ghoulish goodies will bring the wow-factor and delight both the little and big monsters in your life.
Hummingbird Bakery Halloween Piñata Cake
Horror story: The ultimate dessert to serve at the end of fright night, this decadent sponge has a terrifically terrifying design and an equally exceptional taste.
Layers of soft chocolate sponge are sandwiched together with orange-coloured vanilla and topped with a vanilla frosting, sugar bats, sprinkles and the word ‘Spooky’ in red icing.
But the best part? The centre is filled with M&Ms for a surprise that will be sure to delight your guests. The 6” cake serves up to six people while the 8” option serves as many as 12.
From £44.95 | Hummingbird Bakery | Buy it now
Halloween cake from Konditor
Horror story: This Halloween, Konditor is offering not one but two devilishly delicious cakes.
The first, a Halloween Red Velvet Cake, is a classic (blood) red velvet sponge that has been covered in a smooth, rich chocolate ganache and a subtle web at each end with a spider embellishment.
The second, the Halloween Chocolate Coconut Torte, is a coconut sponge that has a rich milk chocolate ganache and a piped spider-web detailing with eight-legged friends included and toasted coconut shavings around the top. The collection also includes gingerbread zombies and slime biscuits with ‘eek’ or ‘boo’ cut outs sandwiching a lime curd.
This is one of the most delicious cakes we have ever tasted.
From £18 | Konditor | Buy it now
Flavourtown Bakery Halloween cakes
Horror story: For the most bewitching night of the year, you can count on Flavourtown to pull out all the stocks with an epic dessert.
We could hardly choose between the scarily good offering this year but narrowed it down to these show-stopping spooky options.
The Flamingo Halloween Cake takes the brand's beloved cake and gives it a dark twist, reinvented as a skeleton. It is made up of four layers of sponge with a Swiss Meringue buttercream icing and adorned with zombie macaroon flamingos.
The Halloween Faultline Graveyard Cake is a red velvet sponge with cream cheese frosting and a spooky gravestone, rubble and blood-stained bone detailing composed of oreo and icing.
From £60 | Flavourtown | Buy it now
Peggy Porschen Sweet Shivers
Horror story: The Peggy Porschen Halloween collection contains delicious dream cakes with a playful pink hue.
The eye-catching treats include a black velvet layered sponge cake that is adorned with a white marshmallow spun cobweb design, pink vanilla cream cheese frosting and ghouliciously delightful biscuits. The 6” cake will serve 10 large or 20 mini slices.
£69.95 | Peggy Porschen | Buy it now
Fortnum & Mason Iced Biscuits
Horror story: The spook-tacular treats at Fortnum & Mason are not for the faint hearted. Iced biscuits are given a gruesome twist with horror show, demons and fingers and eye balls designs that are as frightening as they are delicious.
£16.95 | Fortnum & Mason | Buy it now
Cutter & Squidge
Horror story: Cutter & Squidge has created a spell-binding collection of little and large cakes using all natural ingredients without artificial colours or flavourings.
The Soho-based bakery’s much-loved 'biskie' – a sandwiched dessert that is a cross between a cake and a cookie – comes in two forms.
The Cookie Monster Biskie has a green coconut ‘fur’, a strawberry tongue and a chocolate buttercream and cookies filling, while the Bewitched Cauldron Biskie is made up of chocolate with a swirl of charcoal vanilla buttercream and a chocolate handle and feet. They come in a box of six.
From £18.90 | Cutter & Squidge | Buy it now
Lola’s Halloween Cupcakes
Horror story: A must for any Halloween party spread, this devilish batch from Lola’s really looks the part with colourful icing and spooky trimmings.
Moist chocolate, vanilla or a combination of the two sponges are topped with buttercream frosting and delicately finished with creepy touches like an edible skull, a ghost or sugar bats.
The cupcakes are offered in both regular and tiny sizes.
£19.60 for 6 | Lola’s Cupcakes | Buy it now
Primrose Bakery Chocolate Marshmallow Mini Ghost Cupcakes
Horror Story: Delight little terrors with these adorable ghost cupcakes from Primrose Bakery. The mini chocolate sponges are topped with ooey gooey marshmallow icing and chocolate chip eyes.
Lovely with a cuppa, the treats come in boxes of 12.
From £1.75 | Primrose Bakery | Buy it now
Mariage Frères
Horror story: Parisian tea label Mariage Frères are making sure you are in for a fright this Halloween with trick or treats infused with tea.
The Fantôme de l’Opera sponge cake is shaped as a ghost and has a raspberry Italian meringue. The Millecake au thé Midnight Magic spooky sponge cake is layered with chocolate yuzu and has an infusion of Midnight Magic Tea.
£9 | Mariage Frères | Buy in store
