SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Favorite cake mix or recipe
- Turquoise Candy Melts® Candy
- Bright White Candy Melts Candy
- Green Candy Melts Candy
- Red Candy Melts Candy
- Red Sanding Sugar
- Creamy White Decorator Icing - 4lb Tub
- Rose Icing Color*
- Sky Blue Icing Color*
- Leaf Green Icing Color*
- White Sparkling Sugar
- Supplies:
- 6"x 3" Round Pan
- Cooling Grid
- Cake Board
- Peppermint Candy Template
- Parchment Paper
- Tape
- Parchment Triangles
- Scissors
- Ruler
- 13" Angled Spatula
- Disposable Decorating Bags
- Round Decorating Tip 10
- Star Decorating Tip 4B
- Cake Turntable
- Cake Icing Tip 789
- Cake Smoother
- Icing Comb Set
DIRECTIONS:
- Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool two cake layers.
- Make candy peppermints. Place peppermint candy template on cake board, then cover with parchment paper, taping down to secure.
- Combine 2oz Turquoise, 2oz Bright White and 1oz Green Candy Melts candy to make light green; melt together, according to package instructions.
- Prepare parchment bag with melted light green candy; cut small hole in tip of bag. Following template, pipe wrappers of candies.
- Melt 4oz Bright White candy according to package directions. Transfer to parchment bag; cut small hole in tip of bag. Following template, pipe white swirls of candies. Let set completely, about 10 minutes.
- Melt 4 z Red candy according to package directions. Transfer to parchment bag; cut small hole in tip of bag. Following template, pipe red swirls of candies. Sprinkle red candy with red sanding sugar. Chill until set, about 5 minutes.
- Repeat process for a total of about 50 candies.
- Assemble cake. Level, fill and stack cake layers for 6" tall cake. Lightly crumb coat; chill until set, about 20 minutes.
- Tint icing. Tint one cup buttercream light pink and two cups buttercream light teal using color combinations provided.
- Reserve remaining icing white.
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 10 and light pink icing. Prepare decorating bag with tip 4B and light teal icing.
- Ice cake. Place cake on turntable. Ice cake smooth using white buttercream. Using stripe comb tool, comb sides of cake.
- Fill empty notches using light pink icing. Smooth with cake smoother. Smooth top of cake.
- Use hand to carefully cover entire sides of cake with white sparkling sanding sugar.
- Decorate cake. Carefully attach candy decorations around cake, approximately 10 in each row.
- Using light teal icing, pipe spiral border around top of cake.
JOANN HACKS:
- *Combine Rose and a touch of Sky Blue icing colors to get light pink color shown. Combine Sky Blue and Leaf Green icing colors to get light teal color shown.