CandyLand Cake

This was a challenge for me, but so cute & fun.

I baked a 18x14 cake. 2 cake mixes. Made one batch of buttercream icing in 3 colors (white/pink/purple) and used green color spray (food coloring spray) on the top before I added all the extra.

List of candies & goodies on the cake:

Starbursts
Dots
Sixlets
colored licorice
spice drops (small gumdrops)
chocolate chips (I melted about 1/4 cup in a baggy in the microwave & squeezed it out into a 'glump' near the last curve.)
round peppermints
mini candy canes (I didn't have these and had to substitute ornaments)
gingerbread cookie minis (again, I used ornaments from Hobby Lobby)
Fruit Roll ups and Fruit by the foot
Peanuts
Gummy Life Savers
Dum-dums (or any small lollipops)

If you look closely at the cakeyou might see where I placed everything. If I had it to do over again, I would have cut the licorice up for the pathway. They are the right colors and I could have trimmed them to curve better. I just put them on the border this time.

My birthday girl put together the outside border of Sixlets and Dots. Overall, it was a fun project. I couldn't fit everything from the game board on it, but it was fun to try. I put it together the morning of the party. I don't recommend doing it the night before because some of the candies might start to melt or break down and bleed color into the icing.