It’s spooky season! Halloween is upon us with it’s orange and black ghostly decor popping up on every corner. Spooky Halloween Bundt Cake is a SUPER easy treat for all ages that’s as delicious as it is colorful!
Grab your food coloring be prepared to be licking your spoons and fingers as we go 🙂
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Halloween may look a little different this year, so here’s to celebrating social-distance style. What better way to celebrate Halloween with the family than with fun and exciting spooky treats!
Kids of all ages will enjoy a slice spooky Halloween bundt cake. It’s super festive and the candy googly eyes are the icing on the cake! 😉
Using a premade cake mix takes the hassle out of baking and allows you to focus your time and energy on the fun decorating!
how to: mix the food coloring
Halloween is all about orange and black.
If you’re like me and only have red-yellow-green-blue food coloring, then some color mixing will need to occur to get the desired colors.
Using separate glass bowls we’ll start by creating orange and black.
Orange: mix 20 drops red and 12 drops yellow
Black: mix equal drops red, blue, and green (about 15 each)
how to: make orange and black icing
Divide one store-bought container of white frosting into two microwave-safe bowls.
Add approximately 1 tsp of orange food coloring to one bowl and 1 tsp of black food coloring to the other bowl.
Stir thoroughly.
Not much food coloring is needed since the frosting is white! Slowly add more if more is needed for your batch.
how to: make the batter
Prepare a store-bought cake mix according to the instructions on the box.
Use a spice cake mix for an extra fall-themed cake, or a white cake mix for the most vibrant colors.
Divide the cake mix equally into two bowls.
Add the rest of the orange food coloring to one bowl and the remaining black food coloring to the other bowl.
Stir until thoroughly mixed.
How to: Assemble the cake
Heavily grease a 10-inch bundt pan.
Carefully pour cake batter into the bundt pan, alternating between orange and black. Do not mix!
Bake according to the instructions on the box (approximately 30 minutes at 350 degrees F).
Let cool completely and flip the pan upside down to remove it.
How to: Decorate the Spooky Halloween Bundt Cake
Prepare the icing for drizzling by quickly heating up in the microwave.
After about 30 seconds in the microwave the icing should be very thin and liquidy. Let cool if you desire a thicker icing.
Using two spoons drizzle the icing all across the cake, alternating between the orange and black. (I only use about half of the icing and store the rest in the fridge!)
Decorate with candy googly eyes while the icing is soft for an extra spooky flare!
Ingredients Needed
Materials Needed
Spooky Halloween Bundt Cake
Ingredients
- 1 set of food coloring
- 1 store-bought container of icing
- 1 store-bought spice cake mix
- assortment of candy eyes
Instructions
- In one bowl, mix 20 drops of red food coloring and 12 drops of yellow to create orange. In another bowl, mix 12 drops each of red, blue, and green to create black.
- Divide frosting into two microwave safe bowls. Add approximately 1 tsp of orange food coloring to one bowl and 1 tsp of black food coloring to the other bowl. Stir thoroughly.
- Prepare cake batter according to the instructions on the box. Divide equally into two bowls. Mix each food coloring into separate bowls to make orange cake mix and black cake mix.
- Grease a bundt pan. Pour cake batter into the pan, alternating between orange and black. Be sure to not mix! Bake according to the instructions on the box (approximately 30 minutes at 350° F.
- Let cake cool completely before icing. Using a spoon drizzle icing across the cake, alternating between the orange and black icing. Decorate with candy googly eyes while the icing is soft.
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The recipe looks very interesting and colourful will try this one I am sure my kid gonna love it. Thanks for sharing.
I love all the colors too!
Thanks for sharing this! I will be making this for Halloween since we aren’t trick or treating this year!
Yay I hope it’s fun and it turns out great!
Looks like a fun cake indeed. We don’t celebrate Halloween as such in NZ (no trick or treating) but we did used to have family fun dinners on Halloween and make all the foods a little creepy 🦇🎃👻
Justine @the Tea Chest Blog
That sounds like such a fun tradition 🙂
I love this! Such a great cake! Thanks so much for sharing and thanks for telling me how to make black frosting! 😊
I hope it was helpful!
Wow this looks so cute, love the colours. Fantastic idea..
Thanks, it was so fun to make!
Wow, this looks amazing and professionally done! I’m so impressed, and this seems pretty easy to do. Thank you for sharing!
Aww thank you, that’s so sweet!
What a great idea. This looks delicious. Bundt cake always reminds me of that scene in my big fat Greek wedding with the flower pot.
Bundt cakes are always a good time 🙂
This is such a cool cake! Perfect for Halloween
Thank you!
That looks delicious!
Thank you!
I absolutely love the eyeballs! So cute… I mean scary! 😉 This would be perfect to take to a party. I bet you could maybe even give it a mummy look.
I love the idea of a mummy! That’d be perfect with white icing!
This is awesome. I will be sending it to my sister to make lol
Haha that sounds great!
Love it!
Will definitely be trying this.
I love Halloween so much ❤️
That’s great! Halloween is full of fun treats 🙂
Looks hauntingly delish!
Thank you 🙂
Love the eyes, they make it so fun! This is a great recipes and so fun to make for kids!
The eyes really make it fun!
What a fun and spooky cake for Halloween! Thank you for sharing this recipe. I’ll pin this for later!
Thanks so much!
Looks so good! Perfect for Halloween!
Thanks!
What a cute way to decorate a cake for Halloween! I’m definitely going to try this next week, thanks for the idea!
I hope it turns out great for you!
This looks awesome! I would love to attempt this with my husband and daughter. They’re the bakers of the family. 🙂 Your blog looks awesome by the way!!!!
That’s so sweet, thank you so much! I hope it turns out great for you and your family 🙂
What a fun idea!! This cake looks so great, and I love the little added touch of eyeballs. I think kids would absolutely love this! Thanks for sharing!
I love that the kiddos can help and have fun with the icing too!
I love this cake so much. I’m Definitely going to try to make this for Halloween
That’s great, thank you for checking it out!
Looks amazing! My kids would have lots of fun with that!
I have a list of ideas for doing something different for Halloween on my blog if you want to check it out.
https://readgab.com/2020/10/10/something-different-for-halloween-2020/
Awesome, thank you for sharing that!
Love this! It’s so fun and creative, perfect for Halloween this year!
Thank you!
Looks so amazing. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for checking it out!
Looks so amazing. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for reading 🙂
I’ve had a bundt pan for years and have never used it! Maybe now is the time!
This was my first bundt cake of my own too! It’s nice to use those special baking tools 🙂
Wow such an amazing recipe. This is so perfect for the halloween cake yumm. I gonna try it .
That’s great! Thank you
This is so great! Very creative using two colours of batter and the decoration is too cool!
Thank you for checking it out!
Looks great and perfect for Halloween. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you 🙂
Very scary looking but delicious. I love a Bundt cake. My mom made a variety of Bundt cakes when I was growing up. Takes me back… thanks for sharing,
It sounds like you have some fond memories of those treats 🙂
Hey, I like the look of this cake. The orange icing make this cake look so tempting.
Thank you so much!
This reminds me of the Halloween cake I made years ago but looks so much better. I’m a big fan of Halloween and there’s still time for me to make this. I live for your recipes. Thank you for sharing this 1.
Thank you Tammy, that’s so thoughtful!
This looks amazing! I love novelty Halloween bakes and this recipe is going to really help me! Thank you for making this so simple to excute!
Rosie
That’s so good to hear! Thank you 🙂
Beautiful presentation! The instructions look super easy and it came out wonderful. Can’t wait to try this xxx
I really appreciate it, thank you!
The cake looks so amazing and delicious. Love the icing.
Thank you!! 🙂
That is such a fun cake! It looks really great!
Thank you 🙂
This looks so cool, the decorations and colour combination are fantastic! I’d not thought about buying a ready mix and then decorating, that’s a really good idea, thank you!
I usually prefer homemade as well but cake mixes make it SO easy!
This looks incredible!!
Thank you! 🙂
I’ve never even tried a bundt cake before! But I’ve always thought they look super yummy. This looks lovely!
Some bundt pans are just beautiful too!
What a fun and creative Halloween treat. It also sounds totally delicious. I could use a dessert like this sometime soon. Might have to make it for the holiday this weekend to eat while we watch Hocus Pocus haha!
Sounds like a perfect way to spend Halloween!
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This looks so festive! A perfect Halloween treat 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for reading 🙂
I’d never heard of a bundt cake before. The last time I made a cake using food dye it was when I was at school when I use to make rainbow cakes, accept I’d use too much food dye which would cause other things to change colour. Red was concerning if you’d forgotten you’d have the red slice of the rainbow cake ha ha ha
Haha I thought for sure the black food coloring would stain but it was the red food coloring drops that were the culprit!
This cake is too cute! It’s so perfect for Halloween!
Thanks so much!
This looks delicious! I truly love bundt cake and never thought about making a Halloween themed one! Thank you for sharing x
This looks fantastic
Great colours
My daughter wants to get started making it straight away