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Easy to Make Halloween Cakes
Halloween is right around the corner and there are so many different decorations, costumes, and candies to choose from. While your local store may offer several creative choices for these items, it may be hard to find a
Halloween cake that is truly original. Luckily, there are several Halloween cakes that are easy to make at home. All of these Halloween cakes use cake mixes, frosting, and candy that can be found at your local grocery store. Also, these Halloween cakes are very easy to make and decorate.

Halloween Cake Ideas #1: Attack of the Giant Spiders Theme

This Halloween cake idea is great for kids and adults. All you need to make this Halloween cake is a chocolate cake mix (plus the ingredients to make it), chocolate frosting, coconut, green food coloring, three large gummy spiders, black M&Ms, and a small toy car. The first think you need to do is bake the cake as directed on the box. Let it cool and then frost it with the chocolate frosting. Next pour a bag of coconut into a bowl and add enough food coloring to make the coconut look like grass. Spread the coconut onto the frosting, leaving a path that looks like a road. On the path, place the M&Ms to make it look like asphalt. Next place the toy car on the road, at a slight angle. Then place one of the gummy spiders onto of the car. Place the other two spiders around the car, like they are surrounding it. If you wanted to make this Halloween cake even more creative, you could take red gel and make it looks like there was blood coming out of the car.

For more ideas, look here: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/330697/halloween_cake_ideas.html?cat=22

Of course Vegas would be home to the World’s Largest Birthday Cake!

http://www.lasvegas2005.org/news/scrapbook/cake/

World’s Largest Birthday Cake

In Las Vegas, a beautifully decorated layer cake nearly always attracts “cheesecake.”

Mayor Oscar B. Goodman and Nevada’s Lieutenant Governor Lorraine Hunt find themselves in a shower of confetti, let loose to announce the cake’s completion.

We had our cake, and we ate it too!

What’s a Centennial Birthday party without cake? Whatever the answer, no one in Las Vegas wanted to risk it.

So during the early hours of the morning on May 15, 2005, eight semi-trucks from North Carolina drove into the loading zone at Cashman Center hauling 30,000 half-sheet cakes and nearly 40,000 pounds of frosting. Volunteers were already gathering nearby to start the process of unloading, unpacking, stacking, and ultimately frosting.

Over the next 14 hours, more than 1,000 volunteers built a whopping 130,000-pound pastry from ingredients donated by Sara Lee. They worked under the direction of Sara Lee Executive Chef Brian Averna and the watchful eye of Sara Lee Foods President John Flood.

Las Vegas’ birthday cake is registered in the Guinness Book of World Records replacing a record set in Fort Wayne, Ala. The Vegas cake outweighed the Alabama confection by 128,360 pounds.

In order to qualify for a Guinness record, the world’s largest cake must:
• contain traditional ingredients in the correct proportions;
• be prepared in the same manner as a normal-sized cake;
• be prepared according to appropriate hygiene standards;
• be totally edible and safe to eat.
And while the final product is built from separately baked sheet cakes, they must be iced all over so that no joint can be seen, and so that the cake looks like a scaled-up version of a normal-sized cake.

Volunteers removed 30,000 sheet cakes from their shipping boxes.
Each cake is frosted before stacking.
Frosted cakes are stacked seven layers deep.
Volunteers frost the top of the cake and apply the decoration.
Mayor Oscar B. Goodman high fives Mayor Pro Tem Gary Reese after setting the last piece of cake in place. Sara Lee Chef Brian Averna (in chef’s cap) tries to give instructions during the melee.	Too hungry to wait for forks, Mayor Oscar B. Goodman (r.) and Sara Lee President John Flood (l.) bite into the World’s Largest Birthday Cake.
After the cake was cut, guests took away pieces as big as they could carry.

Hi everyone – we have a delightful review over at What’s That Buzz right now.  Bonnie tried our Triple Chocolate Enrobed Brownie cake (my personal favorite!) and featured us for Halloween.  That’s right!  We’re serving up nationwide delivery of Halloween themed cakes this year – a great way to send a sweet treat to your loved ones far away – so delicious – it’s SCARY!   Hurry on over to What’s That Buzz to enter and have a chance to win the flavor of your choice for Halloween! ENDS ON MONDAY 10/25/10!

CLICK HERE TO ENTER!

A light and delicious chocolate sponge cake when paired with tea. Found over at the Fit Pig!

Serves: 6-10
Prep time: less than 15 mins
Cooking time: 20-25 mins

Ingredients:

Preparation:

1. Cream butter and sugar
2. Gradually add beaten eggs
3. Fold in flour and cocoa powder
4. Pour in equal measure into two greased cake tins
5. Preheat oven to 180c / 350f
6. Place both tins on same shelf
7. Cook for 20-25 mins
8. Cooked when knife comes out clean.

Butter Cream Filling

1. Put in bowl and stir till smooth

Hi Everyone – our friend Deanna over at MommyGaga.com took time out of her busy schedule to review our Chocolate Mousse Torte – seems she had trouble making it last!! :O) Here’s a quick excerpt; PLEASE visit her blog for the full review and your chance to win the cake of your choice (ends 10/27) – what are you waiting for!?

“I received the Chocolate Mousse Torte Cake to review. It was absolutely amazing! I am an extreme chocolate lover, so this was an excellent surprise. This moist chocolate cake was layered with chocolate mousse, covered in chocolate frosting and a dark chocolate glaze. There were chocolate rosettes on each slice and an edible belgian chocolate “Thank You” plaque was right on top. It came in refrigerated packaging and was ready to eat! We waited, we had not eaten dinner yet…”

CLICK HERE FOR THE MOMMYGAGA.COM BLOG! – You’ve gotta read this!

Ever wondered what the world’s largest wedding cake looks like?

At 15, 032 pounds and 17 feet tall, this thing is three times the size of the cake that currently holds the world record. The cake team baked 700 sheet cakes and put them all together to build the giant cake. They had to use steel discs as cake boards, heavy duty metal pipes as separators, and two fork lifts to put each tier in place as it was finished.

Want to kill a little bit of time? Try to play this birthday game:

http://holidays.kaboose.com/birthday-games-jokes.html