Last week Emilie and I were chatting about all of the really cool Halloween baking ideas we were browsing on the Wilton website. Well, she pointed me in the direction of the “How Candy Corn is Born” cake and I instantly fell in love with the idea of creating this cake at home. Plus, I’ve been looking for some creative ways to use the Checkerboard Cake Pan Set again. While my version isn’t quite as … symmetrical as Wilton’s, I still had a blast making it.
Supplies Needed:
Ingredients:
- 1 box of white cake milk (including eggs, water, oil)
- 3 cups buttercream icing
- yellow gel color
- orange gel color
- candy corn candies
To get this project started I whipped up a white cake batter. The trick here is to make sure you divide the batter evenly so you don’t run out of one particular color. Using about 1/2 cup of white batter I filled the center ring. I then dividing the cake batter into 2 bowls, the first with about 2 cups of batter and the second with about 3 cups of batter. Using a toothpick and gel color I was able to create some really vibrantly colored cake batter.
Once baked and cooled it was time to pull out the piping bag and whipped up a batch of buttercream. Again, divide this just like the batter. Using the #16 open star tip you fill in each ring with your colored buttercream.
Be warned, filling in each ring with the little stars is tedious work. Next time, I would probably use a larger open star tip to save myself some time, which turned about to be a bit over an hour.
As you can see, my orange batter got squished in the baking process which left me with a skinny ring of color. For a little extra fun, I added a ring of candy corn candies around the border of the cake.
Each slice ends up looking like a giant piece of candy corn.
OMG what an awesome idea! I want to make this now…I can’t stand candy corn but this I could do!
I’m not a HUGE fan of candy corn but it is fun to nibble on. I love biting the chocolate end off the ones that are half brown half orange. lol
That looks great Cat, I surely need to get this cake pan. Seems like you can do a ton of things with it
that’s beautiful! I love love love candy corn. I’m definitely gonna do this one! thanks.
how cute i am gonna have to give this a whirl
I am featuring this recipe today on a post on my blog!
http://airplanesanddragonflies.blogspot.com/2010/09/candy-corn-cake-recipe-link-on-oh-my.html
I LOVE candy corn!
Heather
Thanks so much Heather, that was really sweet of you! Let me know when you do make the cake, I’d love to hear how it goes.
That’s funny about the stars. All, well, most of the cakes when I was younger were all made with the stars. I love them and miss them. Now it’s ice the cake and put a picture on it, or toys, and it’s called a cake. I love what you’ve done. I am going to have to find the cake pan now!
OH! I get it now! I was like, it’s an orange boob, how is that candy cor… OH! LOL
{slaps self}
OMG Lisa, now you’ve got me thinking it looks like a big boob.
LMAO don’t listen to me, I’m demented anyway 😉
I love it perfect dessert for the fall season. You did a wonderful job I am not that talented but I am showing this picture to my mother who is retired from cake decorating I am requestion for our fall get together thanks for sharing it was worth the wait
Angie, I bet you could definitely do this! The only difficult part is keeping your arm from falling on the cake after an hour of making all the little buttercream stars.
Overachiever.
😉
Absolutely fabulous Cat!!!
LOL that is so not true, my layers aren’t anywhere near perfect which bugged me to death.
Looks so good!….! I’ve never piped icing….bet I’d really need the larger size to make the stars…I’m slow at doing everything. Thanks for the idea.
What a fun idea! There is something so fun and happy about candy corn that you just can’t help but smile.
i just featured this on my blog!!
http://lebedafamily.blogspot.com/2010/09/fall-baking-feature-oh-my-sugar-high.html