Happy, happy birthday!

My kids' birthdays are one day apart (2 years difference) so I had decided a few months ago to theme their joint birthday party with the Candy Land theme.  I figured it was a good unisex theme, and would be easy enough to center around candy.  What kid does not like candy right?  So I searched all over the internet to come up with a cake idea, and games and activities to partake in.  The cake I modeled after the one from "Taste of Home" magazine.  I decided to make the inside as a rainbow cake, which was interesting, and turned out pretty good!  So here is the directions on how I made the rainbow Candy Land cake!  This cake was an 11"x15" sheet cake, which is why the cake ingredients are so huge!  You can easily do it as a 9" round cake also, or 9"x11" rectangle cake, scaling down the cake batter.

Rainbow Candy Land Cake

 

Ingredients:

3 boxes of store-bought white cake mix

Food colourings (liquid or gel) or your choice, colour and number.

Vanilla frosting (2 batches of butter-cream is what I used)

Icing scribblers/gels

Candies: Starburst for the squares, candy canes (or in my case, candy cane Hershey kisses), peppermint candies, jujubes, lollipops, Reese's peanut butter cups (mini and large), licorice, ice cream cones (filled with marshmallow), etc.

Directions for Rainbow Cake:

1. Spray 11x15 sheet pan and dust with flour.

2. Prepare cake batter as per box directions and divide equally among 4-6 bowls. 

3. Using food colourings, tint each bowl with your desired colours.

 

4. Starting with the colour of your choice, pour batter into various areas of the sheet pan.  Repeat with remaining colours, layering all over the pan until all batter is gone.

5. Bake according to package directions, and in the end you should end up with something that looks like the picture below.

  

6. Cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then remove (carefully!) to a wire rack to cool completely.

7. Once cooled, ice with vanilla frosting and then decorate as desired following the Candy Land game board as a guide.

Here is a view of the inside, once cut.  Looks pretty neat!

The kids loved their cake!  Happy birthday to my little monsters!