Sparks of Color Birthday Cake

Instructions

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1. - Bake cake. Prepare cake mix following recipe instructions. Bake and cool 3 cake layers. Level, fill and stack layers for 6 in. high cake.
2. -

   Melt candy. Melt 3 oz. Orange, Yellow, Teal, Vibrant Green, Dark Green and Royal Blue candy, separately, according to package directions.

   Spoon melted candy onto 13 x 9 in. parchment paper-covered cake board. Using spatula, feather out candy into desired shapes. Chill until set, about 10 to 15 minutes.

3. - Tint yellow icing. Tint 2 cups icing bright yellow using color combination provided. Combine Lemon Yellow and Golden Yellow icing colors to get bright yellow color shown. Reserve remaining icing white.
4. -

   Ice cake. Prepare 16 in. decorating bag with tip 789 and white icing. Ice cake smooth. Using comb tool, comb cake.

   Prepare 12 in. decorating bag with tip 8 and yellow icing. Fill comb indents with yellow icing.

   Using icing smoother, smooth cake. Smooth icing on top of cake with spatula.

5. -

   Decorate cake. Insert candy shards into cake.

   Place sticks of rock candy pops into drinking straws; insert straws into cake (this helps provide stability to the rock candy pops).

   Top cake with remaining gumballs and jellybean candies.

6. - Pipe message. Using Royal Blue icing color, tint ? cup icing blue. Prepare 12 in. decorating bag with tip 3 and blue icing. Write message on cake.