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Make a Candy Cake yourself with ease: a birthday cake with gummy candy, colorful decorations & simple cake toppers – perfect for baking with kids.
Do you love gummy candy? Then this Candy Cake is exactly the right birthday cake for you!
The brightly colored cake decorations make every gummy candy lover’s heart beat faster and turn the cake into a real highlight on the birthday table.
My little ones and I baked this Candy Cake for probably the biggest gummy candy lover in our family. The cake isn’t just an eye-catcher visually, it’s also perfect for decorating together with kids – snacking explicitly allowed 😉.
What Is a Candy Cake?
If you’re looking for new baking ideas, you’ve probably already come across the term Candy Cake . But what exactly is a Candy Cake?
“Candy” comes from English and means sweets. A Candy Cake is therefore a sweets cake.
Typically, a Candy Cake is a simple cake or plain layer cake that’s lavishly decorated with candy – for example chocolate bars, lollipops, or, as with our cake, lots and lots of gummy candy.
In short: a Candy Cake is a cake that’s decorated with plenty of sweets.
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Recipe for Our Candy Cake
A Candy Cake is ideal for baking with kids, because the base is a simple sponge cake. The real fun begins with decorating – and that’s exactly what children love most.
Ingredients for a Candy Cake
- Sponge cake (we baked the recipe for our favorite vanilla Bundt cake , but a moist lemon cake, a yummy Marble Cake or a fluffy chocolate-nut cake are also great for decorating!)
- 100 g chocolate or melts (we used this Vanille-Glasur )
- 1–2 bags of gummy candy of your choice (we used , among others, these mini gummy candies* , because they look especially cute on the cake)
- 1 bag sour gummy bands (these are perfect for fixing onto skewers and using as cake toppers)
- 1 Happy Birthday lollipop (I bought this one at the candy manufactory in Lüneburg )
- 5–7 wooden skewers
- Optional: about 20 cm ribbon for a gummy candy garland
Baking accessories
Saucepan & heatproof bowl for a water bath to melt the glaze, pastry brush (The equipment needed to bake the cake itself can be found in the respective blog post.)
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Preparation – Decorating the Candy Cake
Before decorating the cooled cake, first prepare the gummy candy cake toppers and the gummy candy garland.
Gummy Candy Garland
- Thread round gummy candies onto the ribbon (apple rings work great for this).
- Secure both ends to a wooden skewer and the garland is ready.
- If desired, you can attach a message for the birthday child to the garland and decorate the two skewers with gummy candy as well.
Gummy Candy Cake Toppers
- Skewer gummy candies onto about two-thirds of the wooden skewer (sour belts or larger gummy pieces work especially well).
- As a finishing touch, place a particularly pretty gummy candy on the top of the skewer.
Decorating the Candy Cake
- Melt the chocolate and spread it over the sponge cake using a pastry brush.
- Generously distribute the gummy candy over the entire cake.
- Finally, decorate the birthday cake with the edible cake toppers and the gummy candy garland – and your Candy Cake is ready!
Why This Candy Cake Is Perfect for Birthdays
- It’s quick and easy to make.
- The cake is ideal for decorating with kids.
- No fondant required.
- The birthday cake can be customized individually.
- It’s a real eye-catcher on the cake table.
This gummy candy Candy Cake is a true highlight at any birthday party and makes not only children’s eyes light up.
Perfect for anyone looking for an uncomplicated, colorful birthday cake that’s guaranteed to be a hit.
My little ones and I wish your little ones – and you – lots of (sweet) fun baking and decorating!
Yours, Lia
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