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.
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