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Candy Land Cake Recipe

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"My friend asked me to make her son's 5th birthday cake, and when I asked her what he wanted on it, she said, 'Oh, just put on gobs and gobs of candy,'" recalls Pen Perez of Berkeley, California. "Instead of piling on candy haphazardly, I thought it should look like the Candy Land board game." The birthday boy and his friends and family members loved it!

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30-40 Servings
Prep: 2 hours Bake: 30 min. + cooling

Ingredients

2 packages (18-1/4 ounces each) cake mix of your choice
Vanilla and chocolate frosting
Green mist food color spray, optional
Assorted decorations: Starburst candies, red Fruit Roll-Up, red coarse sugar, Dots, regular and miniature peanut butter cups, 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, miniature marshmallows, round peppermints and conversation hearts

Directions

Line two 13-in. x 9-in. 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.
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.
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.
For the Mountain/Gumdrop pass, use a red Fruit Roll-Up, 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. Yield: 30-40 servings.

Editor's Note: This cake is best eaten the day it's prepared. Do not refrigerate.

Candy Land Cake published in Taste of Home August/September 2007, p68

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Reviewed on Aug. 27, 2010 by JessBella6

This was easier to make than I anticipated, and the Birthday boy still says that this was his favorite cake ever!

Reviewed on Apr. 12, 2010 by breezechic

It's hard to decide which piece to take- You'll get sugar shock from all of it! HUGE hit. :)

Thanks for the awesome idea!

Reviewed on Feb. 01, 2010 by krystaljoy

fun and easy to do, a huge hit with the kids. the more candy the better

Reviewed on Aug. 22, 2009 by mkuhl

I made this for a Candyland themed combination party for my son and daughter age 3 and 7. I used colored sugar instead of food color spray and Hershey's Kisses instead of peanut butter cups due to a peanut allergy. It was a huge hit and so fun to make. Thanks for the great idea!

Reviewed on Jul. 20, 2009 by meladolph

I made this cake for my daughter's 5 birthday. I did home-made cake and frosting. It turned out wonderful! The only thing I did different was instead of using food color spray, I used colored sugar and sprinkled it all over the bare parts and it made it taste much better too! Had a hard time finding candy canes in summer time so I did without.

Reviewed on Jan. 24, 2009 by facetious

This is a really fun cake. The kids love to decorate it, and you get rid of candy from past holidays fast! I made two cakes last year for all 8 of the cousins arriving. They were divided into two groups to decorate, and we had a contest for best cake. Thanks!

Reviewed on Jan. 19, 2009 by Matt_and_Pipers_Mom

Hi! It's in the Aug/Sep 2007 issue. There is a picture of the original version as well. I like them both, and will incorporate my own ideas into the one I will make for my son's 5th birthday in April! I think it will be really fun and not too stressful, such as last year's double layer cake I made shaped like Mickey Mouse head with all his featues plus a hat! It came out cute but I thought I would have to stab myself with the frosting knife before I was done. This at least is a sheet cake to build on top of. I'm going to start collecting (and eating!) various, interesting and pretty candies now.

Reviewed on Jan. 08, 2009 by CharlotteSam

Can any one tell me what issue of Taste of home this recipe was in, I would like to see the picture in the magazine and I can't figure out what edition it was in. Thanks

Reviewed on Jun. 10, 2008 by lizbek482

I have made this cake twice and my 6 yo daughter loves to show it off!

Reviewed on Apr. 12, 2008 by jessica007

This is a wonderful recipies for my kids.

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