20 Best Halloween Cake Ideas

This festive and vibrant dessert perfectly captures the essence of Halloween. It features three layers of colorful batter—yellow, orange, and white to resemble candy corn. Each layer is stacked with a generous spread of almond-flavored buttercream, and the entire cake is frosted to a smooth finish before being topped with actual candy corn for decoration.

This brilliantly eerie dessert is easy and fun to make. It uses melted marshmallows stretched into delicate, sticky strands to create a cobweb effect over a fondant-covered cake. The marshmallow cobwebs are draped across the cake in all directions, giving it an authentic spider web look. It’s the perfect centerpiece for a Halloween party.

This adorable and festive treat is perfect for a Halloween celebration for kids. This cake is cleverly shaped like a pumpkin using two bundt cakes. It has a delicious pumpkin spice flavor that adds fall flavor to each bite. The cake is decorated with orange buttercream frosting, and a cute jack-o'-lantern face is piped on with black buttercream. A mini muffin is used as the stem.

This rich red velvet cheesecake sits on a chocolate graham cracker crust and is topped with a homemade "bloody" gel frosting that oozes down the sides, creating a creepy effect that will add dramatic flair to your Halloween party. It combines a spooky presentation with decadent flavors.

This Halloween masterpiece is equal parts creepy and delicious. It's made with moist red velvet cake layers and a rich cream cheese buttercream that's sculpted into a brain shape and covered with realistic-looking pink squiggly frosting lines. The final touch is an eerie "bloody" effect created with raspberry jam, giving the cake an extra eerie vibe.

This one features a bold red and black marble design with layers of vanilla and chocolate enveloped in rich chocolate buttercream. The finishing touch is a dramatic red drip made from candy melts. The cake is topped with eerie bone and eyeball sprinkles, giving it a creepy yet fun appearance.

This whimsical and spooky Halloween treat features a chocolate orange layer cake frosted with orange buttercream. It is topped with black chocolate drizzles and cute meringue ghosts, adding a fun and festive Halloween touch. The meringue ghosts are cute and super easy to make.

This visually stunning four-layer cake is dyed in vibrant Halloween colors—black, purple, orange, and green. It is frosted with decadent black cream cheese frosting and finished with black sanding sugar. The cake is unique in that the layers are stacked vertically, making for an impressive presentation when sliced.

This elegant yet spooky treat features rich, moist layers of black velvet cake that are naturally colored with black cocoa powder, giving it an Oreo-like flavor. It’s frosted with a dye-free black buttercream that darkens to a deep black over time. It is beautifully decorated with Lambeth piping, making it a showstopper for any Halloween gathering.

This fun and festive giant cookie cake features a chewy sugar cookie base topped with homemade cream cheese frosting. It’s decorated with M&M’s, sprinkles, and other candies. Easy to prepare and customizable with your favorite candies, this cake is sure to be a hit with both kids and adults.

This spooktacular treat combines a moist homemade chocolate cake with a layer of rich chocolate pudding and topped with crushed Oreos to mimic dirt. The cake is creatively decorated with Milano cookie tombstones, ghost Peeps, candy pumpkins, and gummy worms, creating a fun and eerie graveyard scene.

This adorably spooky Halloween dessert features a cookies-and-cream base topped with cute, googly-eyed spiders made from Mini Oreo cookies. The spiders are arranged on the cake with piped chocolate frosting legs. It’s an easy and creative recipe that combines the delicious flavors of Oreos with a Halloween twist.

These spooky mini-cakes are made by stacking and frosting chocolate cupcakes and decorated with vibrant buttercream in various monster colors. Each one is customized with playful candy eyes, Oreo cookie mouths, and piped frosting textures to create adorable little monsters. These cakes are fun to make and will surely be a hit with kids.

This Halloween-themed dessert features rich black cocoa layers paired with orange-flavored buttercream. It is decorated with a spiderweb design piped in white buttercream, perfect for adding a spooky yet elegant touch to your Halloween celebration. The delicious combination of dark cocoa and zesty orange flavors makes it sure to be a crowd-pleaser.

This one features layers of green-tinted cake frosted with green buttercream, all decorated to resemble Frankenstein's face. With M&M eyes, a Twix bar for bolts, and black buttercream hair, this cake is creative and easy to decorate.

This colorful three-layer chocolate cake is frosted with vibrant green, purple, and orange buttercream and decorated with Halloween-themed sprinkles and edible eyes. The cake's rich chocolate flavor, paired with the playful design, will delight both kids and adults alike.

This one is a whimsical Halloween twist on a classic Southern dessert. It features a rich chocolate cake base with a green vanilla pudding layer that seeps into the cake after being poked. The cake is topped with a green Cool Whip layer and adorned with homemade witch-hat cookies, creating a fun "melting witch" effect.

This rich, chocolatey no-bake Halloween dessert is easy to make. It features an Oreo crust filled with a light, mousse-like chocolate filling, topped with a smooth chocolate ganache. The spiderweb design is created using white chocolate ganache, and cute candy spiders add a fun Halloween touch.

This creamy Halloween dessert layers rich chocolate cake cubes, chocolate pudding mixed with Cool Whip, and crushed Oreos in a trifle dish. The top is decorated with a spiderweb design made from Hershey’s syrup and finished with a plastic spider for a creepy touch. This easy-to-make trifle is perfect for feeding a crowd at Halloween parties and can be customized with different toppings or served in individual cups.

This is a fun and festive twist on a classic chocolate Bundt cake. It has a rich, moist texture and tasty green frosting with Halloween sprinkles and edible eyes. It’s an easy and adorable dessert that can be adapted for other holidays by changing the colors and toppings.