Halloween cake decorations - any ideas?

[crayon]

I have (stupidly) agreed to supply cakes for our local halloween get together. I've got an 8 week old baby and don't really want to do anything complicated. Has anyone got any good ideas (doesn't need to be cake actually - I think last year someone made savory sawn off fingers!).

I thought I could just do some fairy cakes and stick halloween toppers on, but I can't seem to find any.

Many thanks

Crayon

THere are mini chocolate foli covered pumpkins in M&S. I am going to make a cake and decorate it with those.

There is a Nigella cake that recommends black icing and then those jelly Halloween faced lollies that you can get are stuck into the top of it. I've seen these in both Waitrose and Poundland.

Both ideas are nice and easy, just a cake and basic icing with shop bought deocrations.

Good Luck

Im doing a Halloween Birthday party for DS2 on saturday.Cake wise im just making fairy cakes covering in chocolate/icing and sticking Horror mix Haribo sweets on top!

I once had a leaflet with ideas on it. If I recall, I made bat shaped biscuits with the special bat shaped cutter (not much use to you if you have no cutter) and on the cakes I used black icing tube and made spider webs and sprinkled with bat shaped sprinkles but only because I had them - I am sure a small spider wouldn't be hard to make with a black sweet and some piped on legs?

ok frogs in a pond ,,,,or maggots in the swamp,,
green jelly,,,in clear bowl for maggots in swamp put sqirty cream over jelly sprinkle with cocoa then put in jelly worms ,,,,frogs in pond ice frog faces on malteasers stick them in jelly faces up!
then put sprigs of anjellica around the sides for reeds

ok?

Big spider with choccy fingers or liquorice for arms, orange pumpkin with black details in liquorice, sweets or fondant icing cut out shapes for face details, white iced cake with spiders web in liquorice or icing and stuck on spider.

I got some small Halloween jellies from M&S the other day for my big Halloween cake as I haven't been able to find the Halloween lollies used for Nigella's cake. They are a bit small for my cake so I am dressing it up with some plastic spiders as well, but they would be perfect for fairy cakes. They are each individually wrapped and come in a long strip - I think there's about 8 for £1.99. The chocolate pumpkins from M&S would also be good.

I'm planning to decapitate jellybabies and stick wooden stakes (cocktail sticks) through their hearts. Might also impale spare heads on sticks, too. My kids are older though, and Horrible History fans, so they expect advanced grue.

Jelly with jelly worms in is good.

and licorice can be cut into all sorts of shapes. Cats, witches hats, broomsticks, spiders (with bootlace legs).

You can make little pumpkins out of roll-out icing or marzipan with a little food colouring in it.

Brilliant ideas, what an imaginative lot you are!! I'm a bit traumatised by the decapitated jelly-baby idea though .

Crayon

Sorry, I know. Once you've done Horrible Histories, and watched Itchy and Scratchy on the Simpsons, there's no way back

I have previously done jellybabies sunbathing under a cocktail umbrella...a bit more pleasant...