Halloween Skull & Dagger Cake

Create a spooky centerpiece with this skull cake topped by a dagger and dripping red gel frosting.

220 min Serves 8 Medium American

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This Halloween skull cake is made from a box mix baked in a skull pan, then covered with antique white fondant. Shading with cake paint brings the skull to life, and a dagger plunged into the top drips red gel frosting for a gory finish.

Ingredients

1 yellow box cake mix (made per instructions)

2 pounds fondant (antique white)

frosting

Wilton cake paint

1 dagger

1 tube red gel frosting

Directions

Prepare the yellow cake mix according to the package instructions, then bake it in a skull-shaped cake pan.

Allow the cake to cool completely. Spread frosting to join the two halves together and set them on a cake stand.

Roll out the antique white fondant until thin, but not so thin that it tears. Use a rolling pin to lift and drape it over the cake, then smooth it down and trim off the excess.

Apply Wilton cake paint to create shading in the skull's eye sockets, nose, and mouth.

Insert the dagger into the top of the skull and drizzle red gel frosting over it.