Candy Land Cake

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• 2 (18 1/4 ounce) packages cake mix, of your choice
• vanilla frosting
• chocolate frosting
• green food coloring, spray (optional)
• starburst candies
• red fruit roll-up
• red coarse sugar
• dots candy
• regular and miniature peanut butter cup
• chocolate sprinkles
• 1 large and small gumdrop
• dum dum pops candy
• miniature candy canes
• clear and blue rock candy
• cake and waffle ice cream cones
• multicolored candy sprinkles
• green colored crystal sugar
• miniature marshmallow
• round peppermint candy
• conversation heart candy

Recipe

• 1 line two 13-inch x 9-inch baking pans with waxed paper and grease the paper. 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.
• 2 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, if desired.
• 3 with 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.
• 4 for the mountain/gumdrop pass, use a red fruit roll-up, red coarse sugar and dots.
• 5 for the forests, add peanut butter cups topped with piped chocolate frosting, chocolate jimmies (sprinkles), gumdrops, dum dum pops, candy canes and rock candies.
• 6 for the castle, pipe vanilla frosting into ice cream cones, garnish with dots and sprinkles.
• 7 between the pathways, add green colored sugar, sprinkles, miniature marshmallows, peppermints and conversation hearts. pipe additional frosting to fill in spaces; top with sprinkles.
• 8 pipe vanilla frosting around base of cake; place peppermints around the top edge of cake.
• 9 note: this cake is best eaten the day it's prepared. do not refrigerate.