I tried supermarket Halloween cakes – the winner cost £7 but looked almost too stomach-churning to eat

AS Halloween draws near, readying for the October 31 fright fest goes into overdrive.

But it doesn’t person to beryllium each astir pumpkins and lollipops – the supermarkets besides person immoderate splendidly spooky cakes.

Prices are often not excessively scary either, and they are a large enactment if you bash not person the clip to bake.

Lynsey Hope tasted immoderate and gives her verdicts and ratings retired of five . . . 

Marks & Spencer Mini Halloween Pumpkin Cakes, £4 for four: 4/5

DESCRIBED arsenic “mini” but these are rather substantial, adjacent for a cocoa person similar me.

The cocoa sponge is moist and delicious and is filled with a saccharine orangish buttercream which I could not get capable of, though determination was plentifulness of it.

The cakes are past dipped successful orangish icing truthful they look similar pumpkins.

Not arsenic inexpensive arsenic immoderate different ain brands but delicious.

Fun and tasty enactment treat.

Iceland Giant Eyeball Dessert, £7: 4/5

A REAL showstopper, this stand-out instauration is astir impressive.

A Victoria sponge with layers of raspberry and achromatic cocoa mousse, it comes frozen and is designed to look similar an eyeball – each astatine a competitory price.

The kids were delighted and it tasted fab. The sponge is moist and the barroom is covered successful a yummy achromatic cocoa shell.

You request to defrost successful the fridge for 12 hours oregon truthful earlier eating.

Sainsbury’s Spooky Tray Bake, £7: 5/5

HALLOWEEN mentation of 1 of those rectangular cocoa day cakes.

The sponge is truly tasty – moist and not excessively saccharine – and it is topped with a creamy cocoa butter- cream, achromatic drizzle and sugar-paste eyeballs.

The plan is elemental but conscionable the happening for scare season.

The kids scoffed it eagerly and I reckon it would spell down a tempest astatine immoderate party.

Fiona Cairns Seasonal Fairy Cakes, £7 for six, Waitrose: 3/5

DELICATE-looking delights successful beauteous pastel colours, these are dainty arsenic tin beryllium and not arsenic scary oregon spooky arsenic different offerings.

They sensation lovely, though.

The sponge is airy and moreish and the icing is spot on. Also, they were not arsenic sickly arsenic immoderate cakes tin be.

A tasty enactment if you are not excessively keen connected the thought of small ones gobbling ghouls oregon eyeballs and different scary bakes for their Halloween enactment tea.

Lidl Sticky Toffee Halloween Muffins, 99p each: 3/5

GREAT to person an enactment that is not chocolate.

These muffins person a beauteous flavour that is cleanable for this clip of year.

The sensation was subtle capable for the kids to bask and the sponge was moist and moreish.

The muffins did not precisely basal retired connected the store support against immoderate prettier cakes, with conscionable a splodge of toffee condiment and a cocoa shade connected top.

But they did sensation delicious.

Morrisons Super Scary Cupcakes, £5: 2/5

I LOVED the look of these scary cakes – particularly the eyeball ones, which truly enactment you successful a spooky mood.

They would beryllium fabulous arsenic portion of a Halloween enactment spread, and the kids and I could not hold to tuck in.

The sponge was beauteous bully but the icing tasted conscionable a small artificial, and excessively sugary.

These cakes people good for appearance, not truthful good erstwhile successful the mouth.

Asda Horror Emporium Miles The Millipede Cake, £7.50: 1/5

MILES’ sponge tasted a small adust and flavourless and the cocoa coating separated from the barroom arsenic I chopped into it.

He looks cute, though, and the sweetener decorations are a delight without being overpowering.

Pack says this serves 12 but I reckon that is simply a spot tight.

You get amended worth with the Sainsbury’s tray-bake, which is 50p cheaper, and Iceland’s offering is simply a spot much fun.

Aldi Halloween Mini Cupcakes, £1.75 for nine: 3/5

SMALL but tasty. And their humble size means these are not excessively overmuch of a sweetener overload for small ones – though you volition privation to tuck successful too.

They were beauteous bully worth for a battalion of nine.

Nothing truly blew maine away, tastewise, but they were decent enough. And the decorations were sufficiently spooky.

Maybe conscionable a spot excessively mediate of the road.