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These Tim Burton-Inspired Halloween Desserts Are Pure Nightmare Fuel

By Rebecca Swanner | July 17, 2019 | Updated on October 15, 2020 | 1 Comment
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La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts

I like a pretty cake as much as the next person, but eventually they all start to blend together. Just how many buttercream flowers do I have to like, Karen?

And then there’s these creepy Halloween cakes and desserts handcrafted by self-taught baker Melanie (aka @La Châteleine) that are taking Reddit by storm.

Melanie — inspired by a love of chocolate (and Tim Burton, Disney, Mark Ryden, Guillermo del Toro, and Edgar Allen Poe) — started baking in 2014.

Two years in, her brand took a sinister detour. Suddenly, kraken cupcakes, chocolate monsters hiding in coffee mugs, hungry books with fangs, and burgers ready to bite you back took over her feed. We’re so flattered she captured so many of our hangry likenesses.

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts

If you were you’re a fan of Christine McConnell, we think you’ll dig these, though where McConnell often focuses on creations directly inspired by horror films and TV shows (like Stranger Things), Melanie’s works are influenced by the same muse that whispers to Burton.

Want to try and make them yourself? She’s been sharing tutorials on her YouTube channel and on her blog, Qui a Volé les Tartes (who stole the tarts?) so you too can bake something that will ensure you’re never getting invited to another baby shower again.

Or, simply peruse her channel on Reddit or Instagram for nightmare fuel.

25 of La Châteleine‘s Best Halloween Cakes and Desserts

1. Chocolate Kraken mud cake made with modeling chocolate and surrounded with French praline eclairs

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Octopus Teacake

 

2. Wool cat made with buttercream frosting

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3. Raspbunny Cream Puffs
La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Raspbunny Cream Puffs

 

4. Creamonster Pie made with vanilla shortbread, raspberries gelée, white chocolate and raspberries chantilly.

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Creamonster Pie

 

5. Wolf Trap tart made with spelt flour shortbread, strawberries, and raspberry curd.
La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Wolf Trap

 

6. Book of Monsters cake made with chocolate pound cake, crispy corn flakes with milk chocolate, black and white chocolate ganache, meringue, and vanilla shortbread.

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Book of Monsters

 

7. Haunted Sugar Bowl and Betwitched Tea Set made with chocolate

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8. Pumpkin Cupcake Garden made with dark chocolate and pumpkin cupcakes, praline topping, fondant pumpkins. Cake stand made from dark chocolate and gingerbread cake.
La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Pumpkin Tree

 

9. Sweet Hairy Cupcake with hand-painted chocolate hat

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Sweet Cupcake

 

10. Piece of Cake made with chocolate fondant, cherry syrup, chocolate buttercream and chocolate ganache.

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Piece of Cake

 

11. Haunted House Halloween Cake made with chocolate and vanilla pound cake, red fruit jelly, white chocolate ganache. Decorations made from gingerbread.

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Haunted House

 

12. Evil Christmas Cake made with gingerbread and chocolate ganache.

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13. Gingerbread coffin

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14. Snowflakes Box made from chocolate Molly cake, dark chocolate ganache, peppermint meringue.

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Snowflake Box

15. Mudcake Monster made with chocolate, coffee mud cake, dark chocolate ganache and topped with coconut flakes.

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Mudcake Monster

 

16. Hot Chocolate with a gingerbread umbrella and macarons.

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Hot Chocolate

 

17. Carnivorous Macaron filled with strawberry cream (tentacles made from modeling chocolate).

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Carnivorous Macaron

 

18. Mushroom Meringue with strawberry buttercream

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19. Kraken cupcakes and cake

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20. Corpse Bride cake (La Chateleine’s first sinister Halloween cake)

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21. Chocolate Spidercat and Fishbone cookies

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Fishbones and Spider Cat

 

22. Lemonster Pie with Italian meringue.

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Lemonster Pie

 

23. The Rare Pearl made with two hazelnut and dark chocolate pies.

La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - The Rare Pearlr

 

24. Hamburger Cake made with Madeleine and sesame cake, dark chocolate ganache, yellow nectarines and pistachio cream cheese
La Chateleine Creepy Halloween Cakes and Desserts - Sweet Hamburger

25. Mister Pumpkin Cake made with butternut cake, praline chantilly cream, dark chocolate ganache, chocolate and almonds crumble, and a plank of wood made from gingerbread

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Rebecca Swanner
Pleased to meet you. I'm the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Let's Eat Cake: The world's first smart, funny lifestyle site for women.

My background is in publishing (I've worked at Parade, Men's Journal, Us Weekly, Stuff, Blender, Beachbody, and more), mostly with a focus in health, fitness, and entertainment. I've also run my own baking company and competed on Cupcake Wars, so hit me up with your baking questions!

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