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Create a candy cake made out of your favorite candy bars for your next celebration. It is the perfect gift for the candy lover in your life.
More fun gift ideas include this Cookie Bouquet or a Money Lei.
Why You’ll Love This!
A candy cake usually cost less than $10 to make and can be customized for any event such as birthday cake, graduation gift or even a wedding. It’s the perfect way to use up leftover halloween candy too.
They are perfect for that hard to buy for person too! The best part is there is no baking, no oven or no actual ingredients involved except candy!
Candy Cake Supplies
- Candy Bars. 20 or so full size candy bars, depending on size of cake wanted. You can use Snickers, Milky Way bars, Kit Kats
- Metal tin
- Cardboard Circle
- Foil
- Double Sided Tape
- Shredded Paper
How to Make a Candy Cake Out of Candy Bars
Use this easy to follow tutorial:
- Cover cardboard circle with foil. Attach several strips of tape to top edge of largest tin.
- Place tin upside down (i.e. taped side down) in center of cardboard circle.
- Attach a smaller tin on top if desired using tape.
- Using strips of double sided tape, attach candy bars around bottom tin.
- Use several strips on each candy bar to make sure they adhere well.
- Keep adding candy bars around tin. Try not to eat any! 🙂
- Finish with bottom tin.
- Repeat on top tin with smaller candy bars.
- Add paper shred if desired.
- Add a paper strip on top…
or a bow….
or a fun toy or even a tiny blue pail filled with even more candy on top of the cake.
Cake Made of Candy Bars
Candy Cakes are perfect for any occasion!
Wrap in cellophane for the finishing touch and easy transport.
Who are you going to make your first candy cake for??
Just think of all the possibilities!
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tanika says
I have seen this idea and used it before, but never with the shredded paper. I think that the paper looks cuter than filling with candy! I hadn’t thought of tiers until I came across this site. Wonderful idea to use more candy and keep me from eating the leftovers.
AnnMarie says
Thank you sooo much for sharing! this is super. I will be making plenty of these for my twins to bring to birthday parties.
Stay well,
AnnMarie
cynethia jones says
would you please give me some idea and a theme, this would be my first time and I’m doing it for relay for life cancer to raffle it off to a luck winner i’ve seen a couple of idea that you had on your website
Michelle Wilkes says
I am making these for teacher appreciation week for my kids teachers! What a great idea!
Carolyn says
I had such fun making this. The tins were expensive even in the Op(Thrift)Shop but in the $2 Shop they had very thin wooden boxes and they worked out idea.
You can see mine here
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I will take it for my daughters birthday tonight.