Things You'll Need:
- Cake mix or recipe ingredients
- Round cake pans
- Orange, yellow and black cake icing
- Food coloring
- Rubber spatula
- Icing or pastry bag
- Candy
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Step 1
Bake a cake. Purchase a cake mix from your grocery store or use a recipe to prepare a homemade cake. Try baking a round cake so that it will resemble a pumpkin once decorated.
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Step 2
Keep the cake's surface level to make it easier to decorate later. Try flipping your cake over when you get it out of the oven to use the smooth underside as the cake's top. You may need to trim portions of the cake with a knife to make sure that it sits flat.
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Step 3
Allow the cake to cool overnight. You want the cake to be completely cooled by the time you begin decorating it to keep the icing from melting as you apply it.
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Step 4
Use food coloring to dye cake icing orange. You might be able to find a ready-made orange cake frosting at your grocery store.
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Step 5
Cover the surface and sides of your cake with a base coating of orange frosting. Smooth the icing using a knife. Try warming a rubber spatula under a stream of hot water, then dry it and use it to slightly melt the icing as you smooth it into place.
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Step 6
Fill a cake-decorating bag with black icing. Hold the bag's nozzle over the portion of cake you want to decorate and gently squeeze the back of the bag. A slow, steady stream of icing should appear.
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Step 7
Add lines and borders of black icing to draw the outlines of a face. Turn your round orange cake into a grinning jack-o'-lantern by adding triangular eyes and a wide, grinning mouth.
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Step 8
Empty your cake-decorating bag of black icing and replace it with yellow icing.
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Step 9
Apply yellow icing to the inside of your jack-o'-lantern's eyes and mouth. This will create the impression that they're glowing from within.
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Step 10
Dot your jack-o'-lantern's smile with pieces of candy corn for teeth. Candy corn is one of the most frequently used candies in Halloween decorations.
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Step 11
Garnish the sides of your plate with other candies. Consider using festive orange and gold leaves from trees in your yard to give it a special autumn flare.
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Step 12
Look for other tips and recipes for Halloween cakes at FabulousFoods.com and FamilyFun.Go.com (see Resources below).
