27 Halloween Cakes That Beat A Bucket Of Candy

Whether you’re throwing a Halloween bash and need a show-stopping centerpiece dessert, or just really love the Peanuts gang and want your pumpkin patch to be the most sincere, this is the cake for you—it’s the Great Pumpkin, er, Bundt-kin, Charlie Brown!

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Team Delish lives for cake—and Halloween—so a playfully spooky take on the traditional American poke cake is a natural fit for us. This soft, rich, almond buttermilk cake is infused with a tart cherry sauce (“blood”!) and topped off with a light, fluffy whipped cream for a dessert that’s equally tasty and scary.

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In our minds, fall isn't fall 'til we've had at least a dozen apple cider cake donuts. This super-sized version comes together in no time, and there's no deep-frying involved. That's a win in our book.

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Let’s face it: Pumpkin anything is a crowd pleaser in its own right. When combined with two of the most popular desserts in the history of dessert creation, it turns into a must-make for every fall occasion.

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We've done our fair share of spooky Halloween treats—Dracula Dentures! Poison Apples!—but wanted to make a Halloween layer cake that you wouldn't be too scared to take a bite of. By topping it with Ghost Peeps and Milano cookies with the letters "RIP," the presentation is spooky but still lure in everyone for a bite.

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We predict this edible Ouija board will spell Y-U-M. Once you learn how easy it is to make your own edible cake toppers, you'll be almost too powerful.

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These are TOO cute and actually crazy easy to make. Use your go-to white cake recipe for the batter, or prepare batter using a box mix. Thanks to a perfectly distracting chocolate hazelnut filling, no one will know the difference. 😉

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This easy ghost cake is so cute, and the ghost meringues make for the sweetest topping. We opted for a chocolate cake, but a red velvet cake would really amp up the Halloween vibes. Go ahead and serve some ghost cookies along with the cake!

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With fall comes apple cider donut season, the best time of the year. This easy pound cake is everything we love about the donuts. Rich and dense with a cinnamon sugar coating that gets all over our fingers, this cake is warmly spiced and so much easier than frying up a dozen donuts.

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Straight from the author's mom's recipe book, this recipe combines a fudgy chocolate sheet cake with cheesecake polka dots and crunchy chocolate chips for texture. Obtained at a party well before her time, her mom said she tried it and just had to have the recipe (so you know it's good!).

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This cake is delicious proof that nothing is going to come between us and chocolate cake. Not even spiders.

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This spooky spin on a red velvet cake is... wait for it... bloody delicious.

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This pumpkin crunch cake combines the best of two worlds: a pumpkin pie bottom with a crunchy cake and pecan topping (yes, a pie topped with cake!). The end result of this layered dessert is a delightful cobbler-like treat fit for any fall occasion.

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This outrageous cheesecake has a creamy milk chocolate center and is topped with plenty of caramel and roasted salted peanuts. Oh, and Snickers, obviously. Hungry? Grab a slice.

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Netflix, chill, AND eat this cake you catch up with our favorite spooky show this year!

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Ready to kick off pumpkin season with the most impressive (but not intimidating!) fall dessert there is?! Luckily, there's no fret with this pumpkin cake roll. With a few simple tips, you'll have perfect swirls of cake and cream cheese filling that will have everyone oohing and aahing when you slice into it.

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While testing this recipe, we learned that when you bake cakes in 9" pans, they shrink as they cool and end up fitting perfectly into an 8" springform pan. It's the secret to the perfectly neat edges of this ultra-chocolaty ice cream cake.

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This spooky trifle is the perfect mix of chocolate cake, pumpkin mousse, and Cool Whip. Even the spider web can't keep us away from this fall dessert.

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We are very pro-cream cheese and pumpkin here at Delish. The two are as classic as peanut butter and jelly. If you prefer a more classic buttercream, use our favorite buttercream frosting. It will still be just as good; feel free to add some cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice to your frosting to jazz it up a little.

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Your friends will think you are a cake master when you make this Skull Cake. Decorate it whichever way you like, like a classic Skull or a sugar skull perfect for Dia de Los Muertos!

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