

Cherry Candy Melts Cake
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Prep3 hr 45 min
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Total Time4 hr 50 min
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Skill LevelIntermediate
Ingredients
Favorite cake mix or recipe
Creamy White Decorator Icing – 4 lb. tub
Red Candy Melts
Green Candy Melts
White Candy Melts
EZ Thin
Sky Blue Icing Color
Kelly Green Icing Color
Lemon Yellow Icing Color
Buttercup Yellow Icing Color
Supplies
6 in. Aluminum Cake Pan
Non-stick Cooling Grid
Open Star Decorating Tip 16
Disposable Decorating Bags
Cake Icing Smoother
9 in. Angled Spatula
Parchment Triangles
Parchment Paper Roll
Cherry template
Decorating Turntable
Instructions
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- Bake Cake. Prepare cake mix according to recipe instructions. Bake and cool two 6-inch cake layers. Trim cake layers to 2 ½ in. high. Level, fill and stack for 5 in. high cake. Let cool completely and crumb coat.
- Make the cherries. Place the cherry template underneath a sheet of parchment paper taped to a cake board. Melt candy according to package directions, thinning if needed with EZ Thin. Fill parchment triangle bags or disposable decorating bags and pipe leaves and stems with green Candy Melts candy, let set briefly, then pipe cherries using red Candy Melts. Before red fully sets, use a small amount of white to pipe highlight on side. Move template to pipe additional cherries – approximately 18 are used. Place in fridge until set, approximately 10 minutes.
Tint Icing. Combine Sky Blue with a touch of Kelly Green to get blue color shown. Combine Buttercup and Lemon Yellow to get yellow color shown.
Using color combinations provided, tint 3 cups of icing blue and 1 cup yellow. Reserve remaining icing white.
- Prepare bags. Prepare 1 bag with blue icing and 1 with white. Prepare 1 bag with tip 16 5 and yellow icing.
Decorate cake. Snip tips from blue and white bags and pipe stripes around cake approximately 3/4 in. wide, starting with the blue. Smooth with icing smoother and clean top of cake with angled spatula.
Ice top of cake white. Using yellow icing, pipe small swirls around top edge.
Carefully attach cherries to the side of the cake with dots of icing if necessary.