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Easy Floral Cake using Sweetworks Candy

ByMarina Posted on Updated on

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A promotional item was provided to me by Sweetworks. 

My children love to help out when it comes to baking and decorating cakes for birthdays. Most often I try to work on their birthday cakes when they’re away at school or early in the morning when they’re asleep. But yesterday we had way too many things to do and yes, of all days, I managed to oversleep.  I couldn’t help but leave decorating Dottie’s 9th birthday cake for the prayer fellowship this evening till after the kids came home from school.

The kids saw the contents of colorful Sweetworks candy strewn on top of the dining room table and that was enough to set off the pleading to get them to help me decorate the  cake inspired by the soon-to-be released Cake My Day book. I’m glad I said yes because in the end I landed up helping them instead of the other way around!

Easy Floral Birthday Cake using Sweetworks Candy - Mommy Snippets

Easy Floral Cake using Sweetworks Candy

I have to be honest but I never thought I’d be saying my soon to be 9 year old and 4 year old took hold of the decorating reigns on this baking project and ran with it. But they did and I think they did an awesome job!

Dottie skimmed through the amazing cake creations in the Cake My Day book and took inspiration from the floral designs for their beautiful creation masterpiece.

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This is such an easy cake for your kids to do independently if you have a tween helping the younger one.

We started off by baking 2 round cakes. By choice, we did the vanilla cake we always make for birthdays. You can make your cake from scratch or use a boxed mix, whatever is easiest for you.

Thanks to advice from the book, we  leveled out the cakes to ensure we didn’t have “hills” while decorating or layering. And since I’m yet to find a frosting recipe I love, we just resorted to a good ol’ chocolate hazelnut spread. The chocolate spread was used to ‘stick’ the two layers together and frost around the layered cake and above, to ensure the Mint and Irish Cream Ovation sticks held onto the sides and the Sweetworks Sixlets sat on top of the cake.

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How did Dottie make those gorgeous flowers?

She used a flower cookie cutter to sit as her mold while she filled it out with Sixlets and then carefully removed the same. Smart!

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The Ovation sticks ‘fenced’ the cake around and yes, they may seem like they’re going to fall off but once you refrigerate them after your finished creation is complete, they will stick to the cake as if stuck on with glue!

Needless to say, this Mama will never say no the next she’s asked if little hands can help decorate a cake!!

Marina is a grateful, South Texas-based mom of two daughters and a son (an 18-year-old, 13-year-old and 10-year-old). Her husband, of 22 years, is her best friend and biggest cheerleader. The family loves soccer, basketball, their sweet rescue pup Jingle, good food and traveling!

What tides her through each day? A hot cup of cardamom chai, God's Faithfulness and Philippians 4:13!

116 Comments

  1. I think that it’s interesting that the recipes and instructions only require every day bowls, pans and measuring cups according to the description. I think that’s great.

  3. My sister makes a lot of cupcakes and cakes for friends and family. She has tried and tried until she perfected a lot of her recipes and they are great. I think she would enjoy seeing all the recipes and designs in the book

  4. love all the super easy ideas. these are things that I could actually do. 😀

  6. This cake is too cute and I love that it’s easy enough for pretty much anyone to make!

  9. I am happy that it is a book about cute cakes – I don’t have the patience for cupcakes, but I sure admire those who do!

  10. LOVE the way the cake turned out! You’ll need to try my marshmallow frosting – I think you’ll like it!

    There are so many great ideas in the linky. I want to see more ‘Cake My Day’ inspiration!

    1. YES!! Sara would you mind posting the link here please? That way anyone can hop over!!

  12. Easy recipes, and the use of the Sara Lee pound cakes is genius. Makes it easy for everyone.

  14. I like the step by step instructions. I also like how easy it looks to decorate with candy.

  15. I like the unique cakes that will be a hit at any party or event. I especially like the boot cake. It would be perfect for the men in my life.

  16. I love that it has detailed instructions on how to make the different cakes and stuff! Makes it SOUND really simple. I’d love to try some of them out.

  18. I really like the unusual recipes, like the Waffle House. It’s cuter than an ordinary gingerbread house. I’d like to try it.

  19. I commented on your post How To celebrate A #DisneySide Birthday Party at A Party Place.

  22. I love to bake but I’m not so good at decorating. Thanks for the giveaway

  28. I love the variety of looks that this book shows! I love throwing bday parties for my boys so this will give me more ideas!

  32. I like the easy and fun cake ideas in the book. I like that you don’t have to be a professional baker to make these. This book has some really cute and fun ideas.

  33. I love the pictures of the cakes. I would love to be able to make cakes as pretty as these

  35. What a beautiful design! Those sounds like a fantastic topping to create really cool cakes!

  38. I commented on the post: Mom’s, It’s Ok to Say “I’m Celebrating Me.”

  39. I like that they have a section on what pre made cakes you can buy and I like the work boot cake. It looks so real.

  40. I love all the different Holiday themes that they have! And I like how easy the cakes are to make.

  45. I love that there are great photos. I am the type that needs a good picture of what the end result is supposed to looks like.

  46. I think the my favorite feature of the book is that you can use premade pound cake for many of the cakes. You can get right to decorating without the baking.

  47. I love how adaptable the cakes are and how adorable they are decorated with candy.

  48. I like the section that has sara lee pond cake for decorating. The butter pound cake is my favorite.

  49. I like that the recipes in the book, for the most part, don’t require any fancy kitchen gadgets or pans.

  56. I’d like to learn the decorating technique to produce wood grain for a guitar cake. Thank you!

  59. The cake decorating ideas – especially involving shimmery candies – interest me a lot!

  60. I want this book . my wife would love to make some of these cake for the kids and me

  64. I commented on the non-giveaway post: How To Clean a Scentsy Wax Spill Easily.

  69. I love that there’s a whole section on using Sara lee pound cake to make the cakes.

  70. I love all the photos, my daughter and her friend would love to make some of these

  77. i like that it has creative cake ideas, i hate doing normal plain sheet cakes for parties and have always wanted to know how to make fun ones.

  81. I commented on the post: Olaf Inspired Egg Men for a Frozen inspired treat. (#DisneyEaster)

  82. I like that it has recipes that use the cooking equipment that you already have at home.

  83. I like the idea of decorating with Pearls and Sixlettes. The possibilities are endless.

  84. I love that you can use your everyday Items to create these!

    Thanks for the Giveaway!

  87. I’m really interested in admiring all the photos of the beautiful designs! And then trying to recreate them myself of course.

  89. I like that there is a whole chapter on using store bought pound cake so I don’t have to worry about my lacking baking skills and can just decorate.

  91. I like that it has such specific instructions. That is so helpful to me, as I’m more of a beginner in cake decorating.

  97. My favorite features are the beautiful pictures and the different themed cakes….super cool.

  99. I love that they show you detailed instructions on how to use candies to make such unique and beautiful designs.

  100. I like the detailed recipes accompanied by colorful pictures found in the book.

  103. I love all of the ideas and tips and tricks! I love the idea of having no idea what I’m doing, but still ending up with a professional finished product!

  104. My favorite thing about the book is that the authors don’t make you feel like you have to be an expert baker to make a cake that looks fabulous!

  105. Holiday and themed cakes are so much fun! Looks like a good book to get new ideas.

  106. I love the whole idea of using the candies to add texture and design to the cakes.

  107. You did an amazing job with your cake….and that looks like my perfect cuppa tea too!!

  109. I love how I don’t have to bake from scratch to make these amazing designs

  110. I love all the adorable ideas. The candy, cookies and crown cake is so cute.

  111. It looks to have a very informative recipe section! Something I could do!

  114. I like that they have a lot of pictures so I can see what the cakes ‘should’ look like.
    Thanks for the contest.

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