Halloween / Haunted
Chocolate House Project

By Bob Sherman

Halloween is a popular time of year for chocolate making, yet surprisingly I was unable to find a large haunted house mold for this project. Looking over my choices, I decided to convert a stone church mold into a mausoleum with graveyard. For illustration purposes, I have chosen to use a wide variety of techniques rather than maintain a strict haunted cemetery theme. Although you may use these ideas freely, my concept was to encourage folks to get creative with their own haunted house projects.

These make a great centerpiece for Halloween parties and although they look fairly complicated, you will see below they break down into very simple steps. Since this article is heavy with photos, I have spread it over several pages to speed load times. I have tried to keep this as simple as possible, however skilled cake decorators may opt for more embellishment with a decorating bag and tubes.

Although these could be embellished with paper, cardboard, and plastic items I try not to use anything that is not edible in my chocolate houses. This forces you to be more creative when decorating. Note that there are many edibles that make great embellishments, and a visit to your local candy store will supply lots of ideas. Since I wrote this article in August, the selection of Halloween / spooky candy available at my local stores was pretty slim and required a lot of improvising. If you make these closer to Halloween, you will have a much better selection of candies to choose from.

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