Ghost cake - Halloween cake

Ghost cake - Halloween cake

This Halloween marzipan cake consists in sponge cake covered with a layer of white marzipan. Like most Halloween cakes similar ghost cakes design appear increasingly at Halloween weddings.

To make the ghost shape a sponge cake was cut into cubes which were than placed on top of each other to create a very approximate ghost shape. The basic shape was than covered with apricot jam to slightly redefine the cake shape. A piece of white marzipan was rolled out in a circle and then placed on top of the cake.

Ghost cake - click here to see larger picture.

A piece of marzipan was tinted black and used to make the eyes and the mouth of the ghost.

marzipan book

A cardboard cake base was covered in a thin layer of grey tinted marzipan, engravings were made on the marzipan to make the cake base look like a stone floor. The ghost was then rested on the cake base.

Marzipan floor

The secret to creating a marzipan ghost cake is to roll out the white marzipan in a thick layer, this will prevent the marzipan from falling apart when handling it and placing it on the cake.