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
I saw this Candyland cake in a magazine a week after my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I was so bummed, but determined to make it for her third. With a little convincing, and playing the game a lot, she helped me out. It was so much fun. And now a picture of her with her cake … Read more
I made this Candyland Cake Design for my daughter’s 4th birthday. I used gumdrop and mints for the border. 1/3 of the cake I iced in blue, and the rest in green. I used Starburst for the path. M&M’s and green sprinkles for the “gingerbread tree” area, peppermint sticks and crushed peppermints for Mr. Mint’s … Read more
I had no clue how to bake a cake so searched this site for a Candy Land cake. We prepared an 11×14 cake and frosted it with white frosting. We then put the candy on using the game board as a model. We used starbursts for the path, candy corn (instead of candy canes), gumdrops, … Read more
My friend Carol and I made this Candyland cake for my daughter Kirsten’s sweet sixteen birthday party. We taped a cut out of her face on a Candyland game piece at the beginning of the cake. The castle was made out of graham crackers and sugar cones. The recipe to make the sides of the … Read more
Everything on this Candyland Cake Design is edible (except the toothpicks holding the little flags). This is a half sheet yellow cake with banana filling, frosted in buttercream icing. I used fondant icing the day before to cut out the colored path, gingerbread men, the gingerbread colored game pieces, candy canes and the CANDYLAND wording … Read more