Brush Stroke Pineapple Cake

Celebrate summer with this adorable Brush Stroke Pineapple Cake. This cake may look spiky on the outside, but it's sweet on the inside! Use your favorite coconut or pineapple cake recipe to make three delicious cake layers, then decorate your cake with Candy Melts candy petals and leaves to make it look like a festive pineapple. A fun cake for a summer barbecue, birthday or even a retirement party, this brush stroke cake is sure to be the "pine"apple of everyone's eye!

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Bright White Candy Melts Candy
Yellow Candy Melts Candy
Garden Candy Color Set
Lemon Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz.
EZ Thin Dipping Aid for Candy Melts Candy, 6 oz.
Golden Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz.
White Decorator Icing - 4.5 lb.
Favorite cupcake mix or recipe

Tools
Performance Aluminum Round Cake Pan, 6-Inch
Aluminum Bakeware Round Cake Pan 6x2 Inch $14.29
Lollipop Sticks, 20-Count
Even Bake 16 Inch X 14 Inch Insulated Cookie Sheet
Trim 'n Turn PLUS Cake Turntable
Decorator Preferred 9inch Angled Spatula
Decorator Preferred 11 Inch Straight Spatula
10 x 16 Chrome-Plated Cooling Rack
Warming tray
Waxed Paper
Ruler
2 Shallow bowls

Instructions

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Bake cakes. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool 3 cake layers.
Melt candy. Melt Yellow Candy Melts candy according to package instructions. Keep warm on warming tray, if desired. Thin candy with EZ Thin dipping aid.
Cover cookie sheet with waxed paper. Dip tip of 9 in. spatula into melted yellow candy. Make about 150 small ovals on waxed paper, about 1 in. x 1½ in. in size. Chill until candy is set, about 5 to 10 minutes.
Melt Bright White Candy Melts candy according to package instructions. Divide equally into two bowls. Using Green candy color, tint candy light green and medium green.
Cover cookie sheet with waxed paper. Using spatula, make about 8 to 10 swipes of light green candy, measuring 3 in. to 6 in. long. Curve swipes to left and right to create look of leaves. Use spatula to swipe medium green candy over first. Chill until set, about 5 to 10 minutes.
Tint icing. Combine Golden Yellow and touch of Lemon Yellow to get medium yellow color shown. Tint icing medium yellow using color combinations provided. Level, fill and stack cakes. Ice cake smooth.
Decorate cake. Carefully remove yellow ovals from waxed paper. Starting at top of cake, make row of ovals around cake. Continue adding staggering rows of ovals until covered.
Use remaining melted green candy to attach lollipop stick to back of leaves for added support. Insert candy leaves into top of cake.