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!
How to bake a cake for a Candyland theme? just use a simple chocolate 9 x 13″ cake iced with white buttercream icing. To make the Candyland path I used a toothpick to trace a single curvy path over the cake top. When the position of the path looked right I used the bottom of … Read more
Back in 2008, I made two Candyland birthday cakes in one year: the first one was for my six-year-old, and it was in July, and everyone loved it. In fact, my older daughter loved it so much that she requested a Candyland birthday cake for her 8th birthday three months later. I was pretty excited … Read more
When my daughter was turning 6 (8 years ago now), I went online to look around for birthday cake ideas. I found coolest-homemade-cakes.com to be an invaluable wellspring of ideas, and it’s been my go-to source of inspiration ever since. It was hard to choose between so many creative themes, but we finally settled on … Read more
I saw several coolest Candyland on here and I was so inspired to make one for my daughter’s 5th birthday. She loves the game and though I’m definitely not a cake decorator it means a lot to me to make all of her birthday cakes. I combined the pictures I saw on coolest cakes and kept … Read more
This is a birthday cake for a 3 year client. The cakes used is a 10,8 and 6 inch square cakes, baked and filled and covered in fondant. I used square Styrofoam in the sizes of 8,6 and 4 in between the cakes. The Styrofoam was cut on the slant so that the cakes would slant once attached to them. I used real … Read more
When we asked our soon-to-be 4 year old what he wanted for his birthday, all he kept saying was “A Candyland Birthday Cake!” Living in Pittsburgh, we have numerous specialty bakeries, but could not locate a cake with this theme. So, we thought we would try it ourselves. Considering we have the game board essentially … Read more
What a fun cake to make! When a friend of mine told me she was throwing a CandyLand themed party for her daughter who was turning 5, I couldn’t wait to get started on her Candyland birthday cake! I used my favorite chocolate cake and strawberry filling to make a 4 layer, 9inch cake. About … 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