Take a look at these cool homemade Candyland cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
This Candy Land cake is any child’s dream, full of Candy, Candy, and more Candy!! I created this cake directly from the Candyland Game board with the goal of “everything on it is edible.” I used Cream Cheese frosting, Icing, fondant, gum paste, nutter butters, jellybeans, gumdrops, M&Ms, licorice, lollipops, gingerbread, candycanes, icecream cones, chocolate … Read more
We made the Candyland Birthday Cake in a jelly roll pan. We used 1 cake mix, but it really works better with 1 1/2 – 2 cake mixes. Frost the cake as desired. Pull-apart licorice was used to line the Candyland path. M&M’s were placed, in a repeating pattern within the licorice. My daughter was … Read more
Make the house out of graham crackers about three to four days before serving. Let it dry for about 24 hrs and then decorate. We used a size 16 tip for the house and the trees. We used a size 21 for all the trim work on the house. For the road we used a … Read more
My best friend and I made this easy Candyland cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. It was a hit! The kids loved being able to eat every part of it! I used half chocolate cake and half white. Frosted it with a plain vanilla whipped frosting and had a friend airbrush the blue to green … Read more
We did a baby shower with the CandyLand theme. And I knew I wanted to do the Candyland Cake. I’ve done cakes before but not a lot of decorating. It was a big family babyshower so I needed a lot of cake. I started with a 14 inch round. Did 3 layers of carrot cake, … Read more
Fresh candy from the store was used for each area, gumdrops, circus peanuts, licorice, peppermints and candy canes suckers, chocolate chips, M & Ms. The signs were made from cardboard cutouts. I used happy birthday candles for the end of the road instead of king candy and used a few pieces of candy from each … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday I decided to go with a Candyland cake with a choo-choo train theme. For the “hill” I used 2 layers of white cake mix and made according to “The Cake Doctor”. After refrigeration, I stacked and shaped them into a hill. I then slathered on the green tinted buttercream frosting … Read more
For my daughter’s 8th birthday, she wanted a Candyland cake. I initially thought this would be impossible, considering I am far from Betty Crocker! But, I decided to give it a try. I bought a Betty Crocker yellow cake, and whipped cream frosting. I had a friend spray green across the top to add color … Read more
Approximately 4 days in advance I made the trees and house. For the trees I used an inverted sugar cone and used tip 16 with green frosting. We used sprinkles on the trees as well. I made the house by “gluing” graham cracker halves together with royal frosting to form a square. I cut the … Read more
I made this Candy Land Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. I thought it was very appropriate considering 3 is the age when board games usually start being played. I used two 9×13 pans, one chocolate and one white, and frosted the entire thing in buttercream icing tinted with a few drops of green … Read more
I am just beginning to make cakes for fun. I searched the net for ideas and came across this GREAT web-site and got a lot of ideas and put some of them together for my Candlyland Cake. The most stress came from learning how to put together a gingerbread house to put on top of … Read more
I used chocolate icing around Gloppy. I also found pictures on the Candy Land website of each character and laminated them. I stuck their pictures to toothpicks and put them around the cake. This is a great party theme with endless possibilities. My daughter and guests had such a great time. You just need to … Read more