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Halloween Baking With the Kids (without the artificial colours)

by Fiona Jones on Oct 09, 2026

Halloween Baking With the Kids (without the artificial colours)

Halloween has well and truly landed in Australia. Kids talk about it at school, a few houses on the street go all out with the decorations, and suddenly there's a party or a trick-or-treat walk on the calendar.

If you're the parent who reads labels, the food side of it can feel like… a lot. Jet black frosting and glowing orange icing need to get their colour from somewhere, and if you flip over a packet of Halloween treats you'll often find a list of artificial colours as long as your arm!

Buuuut… you don't have to sit Halloween out to avoid that. You can bake it yourselves, know exactly what went in, and still end up with something properly spooky that the kids (and you!) are super proud of.

As much as we love this stuff, and imagine our future selves being ‘that’ parent, we're short on hours. We hear you.

Our kits take the recipe hunt, shopping and hoping all off your plate… so the time you do have goes on the fun part with the kids.

Each Bake Believe kit is fully natural. You get natural cake mix (vanilla or chocolate, with gluten-free options available), pure icing sugar and plant-based food colouring. No artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. 

If you've got a child with allergies or intolerances in the mix, gluten-free cake mix and allergy-friendly swaps for the fridge ingredients mean nobody has to sit out the Halloween cake and everyone can enjoy a slice of the monster! 

This year we’re excited to introduce two new kits  joining the Halloween range: the NEW HALLOWEEN CUPCAKE KIT and the PUMPKIN CAKE KIT.

Halloween Cupcake Kit

They sit alongside our Monster Cake Kit, which has been our most popular Spooky theme, plus our much loved Halloween Cookie Kit.

"The monster cupcake kit was incredible! So easy to follow and the icing component was fun and I could get creative and the 'crazy hair' look made any mistake look perfect, my kids did a lot of the icing on these ones." - Katie

“Huge hit! Very detailed instructions, step by step pictures. Great tips included too. It was a huge hit and possible for someone who is not a baker!” - Jamaica

And if Halloween goes well, it's a good little warm up for Christmas. The same kitchen, the same helpers… just  a lot more gingerbread.

Browse the Halloween range at bakebelieve.com.au/collections/spooky-halloween and get your order in before 11 am for same-day express dispatch.

First order with us? Use FIRST10 for 10% off. 

Magic is Bake Believing ✨

The Bake Believe Team

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