• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • About Me
  • Work with Me
  • Contact Me
  • Shop
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter

The Southern Halloween Queen

Halloween Recipes, Halloween Crafts and Halloween Decorations

  • Home
  • Recipes
    • Disney Halloween
    • Savory Halloween Recipes
    • Halloween Appetizer
      • Halloween Deviled Egg
      • Halloween Dips
    • Halloween Desserts
      • Halloween Brownies
      • Halloween Cake Pops
      • Halloween Cakes
      • Halloween Candy
      • Halloween Cheesecakes
      • Halloween Chex Mix
      • Halloween Cookies
      • Halloween Cupcakes
      • Halloween Macarons
    • Halloween Drinks
      • Halloween Cocktails
    • Halloween Themes and Characters
      • Bats
      • Bloody
      • Candy Corn
      • Day of the Dead
      • Eyeballs
      • Frankenstein
      • Ghosts
      • Graveyards
      • Jack O’ Lantern
      • The Nightmare Before Christmas
        • Jack Skellington
      • Monster
      • Mummy Recipes
      • Pumpkins
      • Skeleton
      • Spiders and SpiderWebs
      • Vampires
      • Werewolf
      • Witches
      • Zombies
    • Leftover Halloween Candy Recipes
    • Slow Cooker Halloween Recipes
  • Crafts
    • DIY Decor
  • Ghost Stories
  • Party Ideas
  • DIY Costumes
  • Printables
  • Halloween Collections

BLACK MAGIC SKULL CAKES

April 25, 2019 Leave a Comment

Share

Pin
Share
Post

Black Magic Skull Cakes use my favorite skull baking pan. The cake is dark, dense, smooth, and rich – like magic!

“This post/recipe is from Heather and it originally appeared on SugarDishMe.com”

Black Magic Skull Cakes

I freaking love Halloween.

Every year we throw a costume party at my house. And we go ALL OUT.

We start decorating in early September (because otherwise it’s not worth the effort. I do the same thing at Christmas – don’t hate). It’s an unspoken competition to see who is going to show up in the best / funniest / most creative costume.

We usually order pizza because I don’t want to spend my day making food. I want to paint my face, carve pumpkins, and replace all my lightbulbs with Edison bulbs for spook-factor.

But I DO make appetizers. And I DO make dessert.

Black magic Skull Cake served dusted with powdered sugar

My most popular Halloween dessert is this Bloody Good Cheesecake. It’s an easy red velvet cheesecake recipe but has a glaze made with red food dye and light corn syrup that is completely creep-tastic.

 am particular about my Halloween desserts. I don’t love hokey things. And I don’t love gross. It’s just a personal preference.

I like things to look … sort of like you have entered a witches den full of skulls and spells and cakes made in skull pans. No cold, wet spaghetti noodles or eyeball grapes. We go with Icky Intestines Bread ( a raspberry cream cheese pastry) and Black Magic Skull Cakes.

Black Magic Skull Cakes use Nordic Ware's skull pan and are super spooky

THE PAN

The thing you are going to absolutely NEED to make Black Magic Skull Cakes is a Nordic Ware Skull Pan. I bought mine last year and have actually been chomping at the bit to use it in a recipe and share it with you guys.

I don’t usually like making recipes where you have to go out and buy a thing to make it happen. And I will say that you CAN make this cake in two 9 X 9 or 8 X 8 round pans. I actually tested both to be sure. BUT THE SKULL CAKES Y’ALL.

They are super cool.

THE CAKE

This cake is dense and dark. It’s super rich and moist and I will warn you ahead of time that it’s not a one-bowl cake. You are gonna get some dishes dirty. But IT IS SOOOOO WORTH IT.

It’s a Devil’s Food Cake recipe that I tweaked a little. I love the results and you will, too!

You don’t have to have fancy cocoa to make these Black magic Skull Cakes, but you DO need to use dutch process cocoa. Hershey’s Special Dark works if you just wanna grab what you can at the store.

Another fun thing to note: BROWN SUGAR.

SKULL CAKE DECORATING

Heads up: these cakes are not easy to decorate with frosting. I definitely could have gotten fancy with some piping bags and colored buttercream, but I am always in a hurry and I like easy. So my FAVORITE way to decorate these skull cakes is just to dust them with a little powdered sugar or cocoa powder.

Black Magic Devil's Food Cake is dense and dark and DELICIOUS

BLACK MAGIC SKULL CAKES

Heather says,

Black Magic Skull Cakes are perfect for all your halloween celebrating. Dark, dense devil’s food cake made in a fun skull cake pan!

Reposted with permission from Heather at SugarDishMe.com

Heather blogs at Sugar Dish Me where she shares tried and true, tested recipes that work well in a home kitchen, without lots of complicated stuff.  Her goal on her blog is to give you simple, family-friendly, fresh recipes with un-complicated ingredients, that you can find in a  regular store, on a regular budget.

Find Heather on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter 

  • Icky Intestines Bread
  • Little Chocolate Skeleton Men Cookies

Black Magic Skull Cakes are the perfect Halloween Treat! Made with Nordic Ware's Skull Pan and covered in powdered sugar.

Share

Pin
Share
Post

Filed Under: Halloween Cakes, Halloween Desserts, Halloween Recipes, Skeleton Tagged With: Cake, Skull, Skull Cake

Previous Post: « Chocolate Spider Cheesecake Cheeseball
Next Post: “I’ve Gone Batty” Halloween Brownies »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ‘tis near Halloween.”

Halloween has always been one of my favorite Holidays! From the spooky decorations to the fun and creepy recipes, I’m crazy about all of it.

This blog is going to be a Boo-tiful  collection of some of the best Halloween recipes, crafts and projects that I can find! 
I’m so excited to share some of my favorite Halloween recipes and crafts as well as spooktacular
recipes and decorations from some of my favorite bloggers! 

It’s Just A Bunch of Hocus Pocus, What are you looking for?

MELTING WITCH HOT CHOCOLAT
 

BLACK MAGIC SKULL CAKES

Jack Skellington Cake Pop Tutorial

Jack Skellington Dessert Cheese Ball

Jack Skellington Dessert Cheese Ball

Little Chocolate Skeleton Men Cookies

COPYRIGHT © 2025 · SOUTHERN HALLOWEEN QUEEN