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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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Candy Land Cake Recipe

Prep: 2 hours Bake: 30 min. + cooling

Yield: 30-40 Servings

120 30 150

Ingredients

2 packages cake mix of your choice (regular size)
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 13x9-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.

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

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Reviewed on May. 01, 2013 by saralyn_06

Made this for my daughter's 11th bday(she looooves candy). She couldn't wait to eat it. Had tons of compliments!

Reviewed on Apr. 25, 2012 by girly13

I made this for my brother and they loved it

Reviewed on Feb. 01, 2012 by s_pants

This cake looks amazing! It is so fun to put together. I made it for my son's 6th birthday. I couldn't find blue rock candy, so I used clear at the top with the ice cream cones and instead of rocky candy with the candy canes, I used snow flake sprinkles, white sparkling sugar and finely crushed candy canes. I also used Sno-Caps above the "start" arrow interspersed with birthday candles.

Reviewed on Nov. 17, 2011 by ace_4

Making this cake for a Bake off competition at work to raise money for Christmas for kids. What a perfect idea..so looking forward to showing it off and raising money from it.

Reviewed on Jul. 19, 2011 by aeberly

love it

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.

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