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Halloween Cakesicles Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Johany Torres Maya of Jo's Cake Shop joins us today for Spooky-fun Halloween dessert. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create 6 different Halloween-themed cakesicle treats. These desserts are a fun and trendy take on classic cake pops. Jo's shows how to avoid cracking, how to de-mold cakesicles, which molds are her preferred picks, how to get a professional shine and how to color and decorate cakesicles in a variety of ways.

1:20:15 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create 6 different Halloween-themed cakesicles
  • Learn Jo's preferred chocolate, cake and molds for making super shiny cakesicles
  • How to fix cracks and problems that can happen when de-molding

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Preparing the fillings 0:32
  2. Preparing the chocolate 4:14
  3. Filling molds with chocolate 5:40
  4. Filling the molds with cake 13:18
  5. De-molding the cakesicles 20:14
  6. The Skull cakesicle 22:51
  7. The Zombie Hazard cakesicle 32:02
  8. The Boarded Window cakesicle 38:46
  9. Making zombie hands 42:36
  10. The Tombstone cakesicle 47:25
  11. Making the bats 50:31
  12. Coloring the chocolate black 53:44
  13. The Zombie Hands cakesicle 58:44
  14. Dusting the skulls 1:04:44
  15. The Cartoon Zombie cakesicle 1:05:46
  16. Making the brain 1:14:04
  17. Coloring the zombie 1:16:24
  18. Making the ears 1:18:27

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.