How to make Halloween ghost cake decorations

Ghost cake decorations
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Learn how to make Halloween ghost cake decorations for your Halloween cupcakes. They're really easy to make, especially when you follow our step-by-step picture and video recipe. These fun Halloween cake toppers are the perfect spooky touch to a Halloween party food spread. As well as stuck into basic cupcakes to give them a ghoulish twist, these easy Halloween cake decorations can also be used to embellish a Halloween cake or a pumpkin pud too.

Ingredients for Halloween ghost cake decorations

  • 6 large and 12 small lollies
  • 125g white fondant
  • 125g white modelling paste
  • 10g black fondant

Watch how to make Halloween ghost cake decorations

Step 1

Step 1

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Bake your cupcakes and leave to cool completely. Ice your cupcakes by spreading the chocolate icing on with a small palette knife.

Step 2

Step 2

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Mix the fondant and modelling paste together, roll and cut a 98mm circle for the larger ghosts and 78 for the smaller ones. Once you have cut your circle, give it a quick roll over with the rolling pin just to make a bit larger.

Step 3

Step 3

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Pop your lollies into a piece of polystyrene or something similar. Victoria used smaller lollies for the small ghosts. Roll the black fondant out to 2mm thick and cut a circle, then using the same cutter, cut a section away to leave you with a smile. Roll 2 small balls of black fondant for the eyes.


Step 4

Step 4

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Stick the eyes and the smile into the centre of your rolled circle. Black fondant it usually quite sticky so you don’t need to glue it, however, use a dot of water on the end of a brush if you need to.

Step 5

Step 5

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Lay the circle over your lolly and arrange the ruffles around the bottom with the tips of your fingers.

Step 6

Ghost cake decorations

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Add the ghosts to the cupcakes by pushing the lolly stick gently into the centre of the cakes. Your cupcakes are ready to serve.

Victoria Threader
Recipes Writer

Victoria Threader is 'the queen of cupcakes' and a contributing Recipe Writer at GoodTo. Not only can she bake delicious cupcakes, she can decorate them too - with each of Victoria’s cupcakes topped with handmade edible toppers. Some of her most popular cupcakes include: rainbow cupcakes, hidden shape cupcakes and even giant cupcakes.