Monday, May 5, 2008

Candy Land Cake


This was one of my all-time favorites to make.

Ingredients:

2 packages (18-1/4 oz each) cake mix of your choice

Chocolate and vanilla frosting

green mist food color spray (I couldn't find this so I used normal green food-coloring and flicked it on with a new toothbrush--works great :D)

Assorted decorations: Starburst candies, red fruit by the foot, red coarse sugar, dots, chocolate jimmies, large and small gumdrops, dum dum pops, miniature candy canes, clear and blue rock candy, cake and waffle ice cream cones, multicolored sprinkles, green colored sugar, mini marshmallows, round peppermints and conversation hearts

Directions:

Line two 13x9 inch baking pans with waxed paper and grease the paper. (I actually used the one pan size bigger for both cakes--this gave me a larger surface to work with). Prepare cake batter; pour into prepared pans. Bake according to package directions. Cool for 15 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely; remove waxed paper.

Level tops of cakes; place side by side on a covered board. Frost top and sides of cake with vanilla frosting; mist with food color spray.

With a Candy Land game board as your guide, form a path using starburst candies. With vanilla frosting, pipe "Happy Birthday" on candies. With chocolate frosting, make an arrow; pipe "Start" on the arrow with vanilla frosting.

For the Mountain/Gumdrop pass, use a red fruit by the foot piece, red coarse sugar and dots.

For forests, add peanut butter cups topped with piped chocolate frosting, chocolate jimmies, gumdrops, dum dum pops, candy canes and rock candy.

For castle, pipe vanilla frosting into ice cream cones. Garnish with Dots and sprinkles.

Between the pathways, add green colored sugar, sprinkles, miniature marshmallows, peppermints and conversation hearts. Pipe additional frosting to fill in spaces; top with sprinkles.

Pipe vanilla frosting around base of cake; place peppermints around top edge of cake.

This is best eaten the day it is prepared. Do not refrigerate.



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