Fun Haunted House Cake Tutorial

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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!

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

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!