Decorating Cakes With Candy Ideas

5 Creative Ways to Decorate Cakes with Candy

Let these creative candy-covered cakes from Shelby's Sweet Shoppe inspire your next baking project.

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Carnival-Themed Candy Cake

Inspired by cake creator <a href="http://www.katherinesabbath.com/" target="_blank">Katherine Sabbath</a>, pick a colour palette for your cake, add a coloured ganache drip, and top with all of your favourite candy! Try using different elements like marshmallows, whirly pops to add height, and rock candy for texture.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

How can you go wrong combining two classic sweets? For this style, choose your favourite cake flavour and a cookie sandwich that complements it. Here, chocolate chip butter cake is topped with salted caramel chocolate chip potato chip cookie sandwiches (a mouthful — literally!)
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Gummy Bear Cake

A helpful hint when buying candy to cover a cake; buy twice as much as you think you need. It took a lot of gummy bears to cover the entire cake!
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Chocolate and peanut butter are really the perfect match. Before adding your ganache drip, make sure you chill the cake; hot ganache and a freshly iced cake can get pretty messy! Roughly chop some peanut butter cups and pile high on top of your hot ganache.
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Macaron-Topped Cake

Sometimes it's fun to combine all your favourite sweets, and that's what happened here. Éclairs, French macarons, fresh berries, and touches of silver leaf adorn this lovely vanilla bean cake. Rule of thumb: if you're adding candy and sweets to the outside, keep it simple (but tasty) on the inside. You don't want to overwhelm your guests with too many flavours. Shelby Pellow is the founder and owner of <a href="http://shelbyssweetshoppe.com/" target="_blank">Shelby's Sweet Shoppe</a>, in Windsor, Ont. Her baking company specializing in custom cakes and sweets for any occasion.