Individual Halloween Mini-Cakes

Note from Cheri: This recipe is a creation of my friends Mary Ann Ross and Kimberly Lainson, the party divas at ThePartyWorks.com. Be sure to visit for party ideas and supplies as well as for all your cake decorating needs. These little cakes might delightful individual desserts for any Halloween buffet table. Click here for lots more cleverly decorated homemade treats for Halloween. Click here for food colors and cake decorating supplies.

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You Will Need: 1 baked sheet cakes your favorite frosting recipe Halloween cookie cutter and round cutter food coloring

Each cake serves 1 Using your favorite flavor, bake and cool 1 inch high sheet cake and release from cake pan. Place cake on waxed paper. Use second medium-sized ghost and pumpkin cookie cutters and round cutter to cut cake shapes. Prepare your favorite frosting recipe. Thin out to pouring consistency. Place cakes on a wire rack with waxed paper beneath it and pour frosting over each individual mini cake to cover tops and sides. Use a spatula to make smoth and to make indentations in pumpkin and spider web. For spider web, pipe a thin line in three cirlces on the cake and immediately draw icing toward edge of cake with toothpick to form web. Let all cakes set. Pipe lines and stem on pumpkin. Pipe black facial features on pumpkin and ghost. Attach mini candies as desired, such as a candy spider on the spider web.