This year, I had decided to post something at least for one of the American festivals. Even though the lighting around my house, painfully reminds me of Diwali(which is just round the corner), and I terribly miss being at home in India. Although I could almost feel the fireworks of Diwali, I am just trying to enjoy the festivities of Halloween. All my colleagues seem to be so excited about it. So I thought of making something on this occasion just for my readers.
Last year is when I came to know about Halloween. I didn’t know it was so popular. I still remember the days when we saw all the festivities going around us. One of our friends explained the significance of this and about “trick or treat“. Then I read about it in all the different food blogs (my first stop was of course at my favorite blog).
So this year, I thought I would make something for Halloween. I initially started with an idea of some cake with white ghosts – something similar to “Chandamama” bhooths. Did I say I was crazy about Chandamama while growing up? But I was always scared about the white bhooths(ghosts) pictures. I would never read the first page of Vikram-Betaal. I would flip that page as fast as I could. But now when I wanted to have ghosts on my cake, they were the first things that came to my mind.
I wanted to make these ghosts with Colorflow icing and stick them to cake like I had created birds in this cake. But I was feeling so lazy to mix this icing, I decided to give up the idea. But then I decided to make the bhooths just with normal icing with white color. I asked my husband (who is a huge fan of Chandamama) to draw few of these on a paper so that I could copy them on cake. Following was the outline he drew for me.
This is a pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting sent to me by Deepa Raj last year.
47 Comments for “Halloween cake”
Suma
says:Hi Shilpa,
Wow…a perfect cake for the season!! The ghosts reminded me of “vikram-betaal” ;p
Looking forward to the recipe. Good work.
Meera Subbarao
says:Hi shilpa,
The cake looks so scary, awesome. My daughter said it was so cool. She said she wishes her mom also baked cake like that. I am a really bad baker. Awesome.
Linda
says:Great looking cake Shilpa! I love the cooperative effort for the decoration 🙂
Aruna
says:Cake looks gr8 as usual. Waiting for the recipe. I haven’t baked any pumpkin cake so far. I am with you, i too miss the festivals in India.
Nupur
says:oooh your ghosties are scary and cute all at the same time 😀 What a lovely cake for the theme of halloween! The mention of vikran-vetal really made brought back great memories…
musy
says:The cutest halloween cake i’ve seen :). The cake must be really delicious, Shilpa! Hey and i loved and still love Chandamama :-D.
Happy halloween :).
Siri
says::Clap: :Clap: :Clap: for the cute little ghosts dear… just love the halloween cake .. though even I get reminded of Diwali a lot.. we can even phodofy one cracker yaar..:(
Siri
says::Clap: :Clap: :Clap: for the cute little ghost beauties on ur cake dear.. even I get reminded of Diwali a lot.. we can’t even phodofy one cracker yaar…:(
Manisha
says:Great sketching, V! And superb decorating, Shilpa! The red colored sugar adds to the ghoulish touch of the cake!
I’m not doing anything special for Hallowe’en this year. I am swamped with too many things. So I was really happy to find out that I had not been volunteered for anything. 4th graders plan their own party and Medha missed the planning as she had been pulled out of class for some testing. When she returned, all tasks had been assigned. But we are currently engaged in making her Hallowe’en costume. If we have it ready before Wednesday, I’ll post a picture.
Shilpa: Ohh :(. I was waiting for your Halloween post Manisha. Never mind…enjoy making a costume 🙂
Sig
says:How cute, a halloween cake with Indian ghosts… I too loved chandamama and amar chithra katha… 🙂
Lakshmi
says:A perfect cake for the occasion. Loved those cute ghosties on the cake. Happy Halloween!
grihini
says:vikram aur bhetaal..yeah, i remember that one 🙂
Nice looking cake.. just perfect for the occasion.
Madhu
says:Like the ghost decoration on the cake shilpa.
pelicano
says:That cake is haunted! Now, when Halloween arrives, you must get a shovel and visit a cemetary at midnight to dig up guests to share the cake! hehehehe 🙂
Medha
says:Cool cake !. Your kids must be very happy to have a cool mom like you !
Nags
says:wow! such a unique recipe and design. very apt 🙂
padmaja
says:an amazing cake for halloween, hey hey you should have posted this last week, you know why i have a party at home on wed!
superb cake!!!
Happy Cook
says:Hay lovely ghost cake
Cinnamon
says:Wow… perfect for halloween…
Asha
says:OOOHH!!! I am scared!! ;D
Great fun cake. I used love Vikrama and Betala stories in Chnadmama!!
Asha
says:My first comment somewhere!
Ghost cake is great Shilpa. I used to love reading Vikrama and Betala stories!!:)
Asha
says:My first two comments somewhere!
Ghost cake is great Shilpa. I uesed to love reading Vikrama and Betala stories!!:)
Purnima
says:Shilpa..me & my brother kept reading Tinkle,ACK and Chandamaama all our childhood! American ‘Halloween’ with Indian ‘Betaals’–nice concept! I loved the background on which your Bhoots are lying down.. and scary red spots too!!! Keep it up Shilpa..no one to match it!!
Purnima
says:Shilpa..2 of my comments disappeared with the below error msg! Kindly chk! Also one request..can you kindly arrange the comments in ascending order as earlier..its convinient..thanks!
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Shilpa: Purnima, this is solved now. I am having some problems with site these days. I have tried to solve as many as possible.
sandeepa
says:Those Ghosts are cute, not scary at all. I used to love Vikram-Betal and the TV series too
Sonia
says:Shilpa, that`s just the cake my little one has been asking for …A GHOST Cake!!! Wow..thanks so much, and waiting for the recipe.
sunita
says:That’s such a cute cake…love those ghosts.
Mukta
says:Hi
When r posting it ? i want to make it for my friends. Can u keep it eggless ?
Shilpa: Mukta, sorry, I cannot post it soon. So please choose some other cake from my cakes collection. You can decorate any cake with similar decorations. It is a cake with eggs. There is eggless date cake recipe on the site & I think you can bake that and make a topping of buttercream icing. I have tried it before and it comes out awesome.
Rina
says:That is a wonderful cake. Really cool to attract all the ghosts.
Deepa
says:hey Shilpa.nice treat for Halloween….and nice work too…too post the pumpkin cake recipe soon..and Happy Halloween
bindiya
says:This looks good!The ghosts are perfect, think your husband is good at art!
Manasi
says:Ooooooh!! Spooky!!! Good one!
I used to read Chandamama too!
BTW… am still a total fraidy cat when it comes to ghosts etc! cannot watcha horror movie without screaming-shivering and finally giving up in the first half hour of the movie!!
anusriram
says:Very creative idea shilpa… The cake is so wonderful…
Zlamushka
says:What a funny looking cake. So cute! I would love a piece… Hope you are participating my Spoonful of Christmas event, I have extended the deadline for another month, so whenever you re in a Christmasy mood…
bee
says:lol, those bhoots aren’t scary. they’re damn cute.
Bhanap
says:Shilpa, you are soo talented, the cake looks too good to eat!
Mansi
says:hahaha…nice decoration! I also made chocolate spider cupcakes for my hubby’s hallowen bash at work! It was fun!:)
-Mansi
http://funnfud.blogspot.com
Shubhada
says:your lovely cake also reminds me of another childhood reading stuff the ghost who walks none other than Phantom
Suganya
says:I have never seen a ghost that cute 🙂
Anjali
says:The decoration idea is original and way too cool Shilpa!
sia
says:hi shilpa,
looks like u r yet again a victim of plagiarism 🙁 here is the link : http://indianvegrecipe.blogspot.com/2007/10/paneer-chilli.html
Shilpa: Thanks Sia for letting me know. Its sad :(.
Arun Shanbhag
says:shilpa! Love those ‘ghosts’ on the cake! They have come out stunningly beautiful!
I see a lot of business opportunities with your ‘ghosts’
Kudos on your creativity!
🙂
Meenal
says:Wow Shilpa!Cake luksv.attractive..Amazing decoration..N yeah,d ghosts luk v.cute haan..:)wh is a rare instance..!:)..
U are so v.creative..Kip it up dear..
Wonderful cake for Halloween ..waitng for dis Pumpkin cake recipie..
Best Regards
Meenal.
Lissie
says:Happy Halloween! the cake looks fantastic!!!
sree
says:I cant stop smiling Shilpa!:D
sharon
says:hi shilpa….im a big fan of your site….thats a nice cake u have…but have you tried skull cake?? its the coolest halloween cake ever…i remember making it and bringing it to school as a kid….its so easy that you dont even need to bake it….if you would like i could send you the recipe by email…
Present
says:I like to spend my free time by reading different web resources and today i came across your site and I understand that it is one of the best free resources available! Well done! Keep on this quality!