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**Article: How to Cake It – Candy Themed Cakes**

This week, I decided to create candy-themed cakes because everyone loves candy. However, with so many types of candy available, I needed to narrow down my choices since I love them all. So, I enlisted the help of my friends, Orhan and Cody, for a fun adventure called "candy hopping."

### The Journey Begins: Candy Hopping

We started our day early at 9 a.m., which might seem unusual, but we were on a mission—to find the perfect candies for my cakes. Along the way, we stumbled upon Orhan's "dream girl," who turned out to be his girlfriend. It was a sweet moment as he talked to her about our candy hunt.

As we continued, we encountered a variety of candies, including pineapple gummy bears and unicorn-themed treats. Each candy sparked ideas for my cakes. I wanted something timeless, so I decided on three classic candies: a gummy watermelon slice, a Swedish berry, and a peppermint swirl candy—types you might find in your grandmother's candy dish or at the end of a restaurant meal.

### Creating the Watermelon Slice Cake

To start with the watermelon slice cake, I baked two cakes: a 10-inch round green cake and an 8-inch round pink cake. I dyed the batters to match the colors of a watermelon. After baking, I used a 7-inch round cake pan to cut out the center of the green cake, creating a ring shape. I then cut this ring in half, resulting in two "C" shapes. By stacking one half on top of the other, I achieved the desired layered effect.

For the pink cake, I realized I could have baked it lower and doubled up for thickness. To create the ridges on the watermelon rind, I used a ruler to mark five sections and then pressed small circle cutters into the dough, aligning them from one mark to another. With a serrated knife, I carefully carved out the indentations, giving the cake a realistic watermelon texture.

### Crafting the Swedish Berry Cake

Next was the Swedish berry cake—a challenging but rewarding project. I baked a 6-inch round red cake and a half-sphere red cake. The dome shape was meant to mimic the appearance of a raspberry. However, carving this intricate design proved difficult. Using a small circle cutter, I marked out the pattern on the dome and then carefully carved away the negative spaces with a serrated knife.

Swedish berries are known for their small details, so I wanted to highlight those by using red fondant rolled as thin as possible. After covering the cake in red fondant, I used my fingertips to push it into all the crevices, ensuring the texture was visible. Finally, I trimmed away any excess and enhanced the indents with a ball tool for added detail.

### Designing the Peppermint Swirl Candy

The last cake was the peppermint swirl candy, resembling an after-dinner mint. For this, I baked two 9-inch round marbled vanilla-red cakes to create the swirled effect inside. After carving the top edges with a serrated knife, I covered them in white fondant and then added red fondant swirls using a template.

To achieve the pinwheel pattern, I cut out multiple red swirl shapes and carefully placed them around the cake, ensuring they met in the center. This gave the appearance of a twisted peppermint candy.

### Decorating with Fondant

After shaping and baking all three cakes, I moved on to decorating with fondant. For the watermelon slice, I rolled out green fondant to cover the rind and pink fondant for the inner part. I lightly brushed the cake with clear piping gel and then coated it in sugar for a realistic look.

For the Swedish berry, I focused on highlighting its intricate texture by rolling red fondant thin and pressing it into all the crevices. Finally, for the peppermint swirl, I covered the entire cake in white fondant and added the iconic red swirls to mimic the candy's design.

### Challenges and Reflections

Throughout the process, I faced challenges like forgetting how I created certain details or carving intricate designs. However, these obstacles made me appreciate the creativity involved in "caking" something as simple yet specific as a Swedish berry. Despite the difficulties, I enjoyed experimenting with different techniques and bringing these candies to life.

### Conclusion

In the end, we had three unique candy-themed cakes that captured the essence of their respective treats. From the vibrant watermelon slice to the intricate Swedish berry and the classic peppermint swirl, each cake was a testament to the joy of baking and creativity. If you're inspired to try "caking" your favorite candy, let us know in the comments—there's no limit to what we can create!

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This article captures the entire journey of creating these candy-themed cakes, from the excitement of hunting for candies to the challenges of crafting each dessert. It reflects the creativity and passion behind bringing sweet treats to life through baking.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis week i caked candy cakes because everyone likes candy really i needed to narrow down what kind of candy i wanted to make because i like all candy so me and the guys or han and cody went candy hopping why are we on the street at 9am we're gonna have candy for breakfast i'm making a candy cake this is research okay did you brush your teeth like extra hard yeah okay listen of course we captured our adventure for you and while we were on the hunt for candy we ran into orhan's dream girl she was right there oh there she is right here or han talk to your girlfriend she's waiting for me she's waiting for you in the pool jump in where are you i love the way you edit where are you i just want to know are you guys enjoying going on these little adventures with me is there anything you want to see leave a comment below feel how heavy this bag is there's a pineapple gummy bear i feel is too predictable a unicorn this is very how to cake it i want to make something like classic clothes i definitely think i have to do some kind of watermelon guaranteed guarantee ooh there's a girls night out mix i need to see what's in this um i think i think we need to keep looking be careful with the candy ah bay street this ought to be filled with candy this is rock candy off a stick yeah where has this been my whole life i want to do something red i feel like most candy is red how are you good good what are you doing today i'm just with my friend are you going shopping yes that's an interesting thank you thank you have a great day we're almost there here first canadian place that's where we have to go because it's 100. i just wanted us to exercise before we eat candy people play this music wow i'm thinking a swedish berry because i like them and then like a classic old-fashioned kit no this is my jewelry don't break it now orhan carry the bags and let's go i want to have a pretty woman moment okay after seeing all those candies i decided to go with three classic candies i feel like these are timeless i've decided to cake a gummy watermelon slice i'm also gonna cake a swedish berry and a classic peppermint swirl candy like the kind of candy you'd find in like your grandmother's candy rolls or like when you leave a restaurant let's start with the watermelon slice cake for this cake i baked a 10-inch round green cake and an eight-inch round pink cake i dyed my batter and baked it in different pans depending on which candy it was for if you want exact instructions on what i did just click the link in the description below now that the caramelization is off of the sides i need to cut a hole in the center of this green cake so i'm going to lay a seven inch round cake pan and cut around it i want to cut this cake ring in half so i get like two half moons or two of the letter c and then i'm gonna stack one half of that ring on top of the other but didn't i cut the caramelization off my pink circle i need to remove the caramelization from the pink cake as well so i'm using the same seven inch round pan upside down and cutting that away there's no caramelization in candy except caramels i should have made a caramel and then i also should have made like chewed up gum who wants to see a chewed up gum cake on this channel leave a comment below that'd be a good halloween one now my pink cake should fit neatly into the green cake see how it's becoming watermelony i need to trim my pink cake flush with the straight edge of the green cake because the green part of this cake is in two layers i want to cut my pink little semi-circle into two layers as well because we're just making one slice i realized after i made these i could have baked the pink cake lower too and doubled it up i don't know why that didn't occur to me did i i don't remember what it looks like didn't i do you know picture yeah i did ridges why isn't that written here tell me if there's ridges i don't remember how i cut them or huh yeah so i must have marked it with a ruler to see how i see how i must know when you're trying so yolanda just forgot how she made the cakes so she's in a while she's cheating i feel like it's like i'm like in the movie memento like once i make a cake you know what i mean so how did you make the ridges everything knife how else are you gonna make it yeah but i didn't remember like how i measured it and obviously there was a ruler left okay yeah i did i used it i wanted to create the ridges in the rind of the watermelon slice i used a ruler and i marked five sections and then i used circle cutters my set of circle cutters and just found the right size for each indent and lined it up you know from the mark to the mark and used a small serrated knife to cut out that indent that's what happened so now the watermelon slice is good i'm happy with the shape of it i'm gonna put that one aside and i'm gonna work on my peppermint swirl candy it's like the after dinner mint should i do the one last i think so okay yeah it seems like it's right oh yeah for my swedish berry cake i baked a six inch round cake and a six inch half sphere cake both dyed red i need to level and remove both these cakes and then place the dome on top of the six inch rim now swedish berry is quite intricate you don't really pay attention when you're just popping them in your mouth but they they're meant to kind of look like raspberries so there's all these and i thought right before i started carving i thought why'd i pick this candy i could have picked a swedish fish it would have been way easier so what i thought i'd do is use a small circle cutter and kind of press it into the top of the dome and mark out that pattern and now i need to start to carve it was so difficult and i'm basically going to try and cut out how do i even say this like all the little curves i want to leave behind those circles and cut away all the cake that's in between them so you're cutting the negatives the negative space i used a small serrated knife to remove the negative space from the cakes oh my god you're gonna close this in front yeah how are you gonna get from them why are you doing this see what i'm saying why didn't i pick swedish fish she went to so many times why didn't i just pick a plain cherry lollipop i could have made a round cake covered it shoved a stick what's wrong with me and it's time to move on to the dinner mint of all dinner mints the peppermint squirrel for this cake i baked two nine-inch round cakes and i marbled plain vanilla with red vanilla so i mean it won't be a perfect swirl on the inside but still you it makes you think about peppermint now i need to round off the top edge of each one of these cakes with a small serrated knife so essentially i'm making kind of like two halves of the candy all of my cakes are shaped the way i want them it is time to call in sir squeeze to help me simple syrup them all now that the simple syrup is soaked in i want to fill and crumb coat all three cakes i make sure to fill the inside of my watermelon slice with italian meringue buttercream and then crumb coat the outside for the swedish berry i do the same thing filling the layers with italian wearing buttercream and carefully crumb coating the entire swedish berry making sure to get into all the little nooks that was fun and last but not least i fill and crumb coat my peppermint swirl candy and then i place all of these cakes in the fridge to chill once the crumb coat is chilled you guessed it i ice them all and chill them again that swedish berry is not dumped ice right now we are having a sweet summer sale and everything at how to kick it dot com is up to 40 percent off what summer safe sweet oh is it backward when i do that no it was fine oh i was like did i do this seals semi-sail if you're interested there's a link below it's time to decorate these cakes with fondant i'm going to begin with the watermelon slice and the first thing i'm doing is rolling out some green fondant nice and thin to match the green rind of the cake i want to make sure that my fondant is wide enough to go all the way around my cake and then i drape it over very carefully now i smooth the fondant onto the cake and trim the excess away from the bottom and i also have to trim away any green fondant that is lying on the pink center of the cake now i can roll out some pink fondant you you know exactly what i'm going to do i'm going to roll it out drape it over and make sure i'm covering the pink center of the cake and i'm going to cut away the excess with a sharp paring knife so that it meets the green fondant and i'm also cutting away the excess at the base watermelon slices are coated in sugar so to achieve this look i'm going to lightly brush the entire surface of my cake with some clear piping gel are you going to him and haw through it did you hear him coming in high i'm like i'm going to brush it and then i just used regular granulated sugar and pressed it up against the surface of the cake all the way around and you can just dust off any of the excess okay for my what did you brush on it honestly we need a cody cam what well you you hear it yeah you didn't you as if it was so interesting and you were like oh and then you were like what did you brush on it are you looking at jennifer lawrence on your laptop right now yes yes i can see it he is he is so you brushed sugar sugar no i no i didn't brush sugar i guys guys can you leave a comment below telling orhan to pay attention please thank you it's like he heard three words brush sugar cake that's what he heard swedish pear okay sweet okay icing it is harder than covering it so the main key with the swedish berry is i want to roll my red fondant uh as thin as possible then i drape it over and right away i want to use my fingertips to sort of push it into all the little crevices and valleys because we want to highlight that texture we didn't do all that work for nothing so we want to make sure that we can still see it through the fondant the thicker your fondant is the more you'll sort of lose that shape once the cake is covered i trim away the excess fondant and now i'm going to use a ball tool really gently just to enhance all of those indents so i'm just going to carefully roll that ball tool run that ball tool along all of these sort of lines and indents around the cake this will really enhance it and now paper's tensioner on i'm also going to brush this cake in clear piping gel you want to make sure the piping gel isn't too thick so if you need to dilute it a bit with water that would be great and then just brush the entire surface the swedish berries are well they're a bit shinier than watermelon slices now my swedish berry is done on to the peppermint swirl it's like any meal we have to finish with the peppermint swirl right the first thing i need to do for my peppermint swirl is cover the whole cake in white fondant smooth it all around and trim away the excess if we ate the peppermint swirl first we wouldn't even be able to taste the watermelon in the swedish bear it's true and you don't really chew them right you just let them die at least in your mouth it's the longest candy please subscribe to this channel if you haven't already you can click the icon right here and make sure to hit the notification bell so you know when i baked a new cake i need to create the red swirls on the peppermint swirl candy and for this i'm going to roll out some red fondant nice and thin just as big as my candy i created a template of course for my red swirls and now i'm going gonna cut one of those swirls out of the template with an exacto knife and then i'm going to use that piece and lay it on my red fondant and cut it out over and over again now i can flip all my swirls over brush them with a little bit of clear piping gel here i go brushing with clear piping and lay my swirls onto the cake we just want to make sure that the swirls meet in the center so mark the center of the cake lay on a swirl wrap it around tuck it under and then keep going all the way around so it looks like a consistent sort of pinwheel pattern how can they do this in real life i don't know i want to go to a candy shop i think they they like they have the white and they have the red and then they twist it and then it gets cut yeah i've never done it but if i had to make it entirely out of fondant that's how i do it if you guys were gonna cake your favorite candy which one would you cake leave a comment below and let me know and more importantly i hope you try to cake it just about being creative and trying something new like trying to make a swedish berry even though you know it's difficult but you still try i think i have to eat the swedish berry i feel like i picked the most work thanks for watching i can't wait to see you guys again next tuesday and in the meantime make sure to check out our step-by-step compilation amazing unicorn cakes oh amazing unicorn cakes remember we saw those unicorn candies yeah we shot them right candy i only use that name at nightthis week i caked candy cakes because everyone likes candy really i needed to narrow down what kind of candy i wanted to make because i like all candy so me and the guys or han and cody went candy hopping why are we on the street at 9am we're gonna have candy for breakfast i'm making a candy cake this is research okay did you brush your teeth like extra hard yeah okay listen of course we captured our adventure for you and while we were on the hunt for candy we ran into orhan's dream girl she was right there oh there she is right here or han talk to your girlfriend she's waiting for me she's waiting for you in the pool jump in where are you i love the way you edit where are you i just want to know are you guys enjoying going on these little adventures with me is there anything you want to see leave a comment below feel how heavy this bag is there's a pineapple gummy bear i feel is too predictable a unicorn this is very how to cake it i want to make something like classic clothes i definitely think i have to do some kind of watermelon guaranteed guarantee ooh there's a girls night out mix i need to see what's in this um i think i think we need to keep looking be careful with the candy ah bay street this ought to be filled with candy this is rock candy off a stick yeah where has this been my whole life i want to do something red i feel like most candy is red how are you good good what are you doing today i'm just with my friend are you going shopping yes that's an interesting thank you thank you have a great day we're almost there here first canadian place that's where we have to go because it's 100. i just wanted us to exercise before we eat candy people play this music wow i'm thinking a swedish berry because i like them and then like a classic old-fashioned kit no this is my jewelry don't break it now orhan carry the bags and let's go i want to have a pretty woman moment okay after seeing all those candies i decided to go with three classic candies i feel like these are timeless i've decided to cake a gummy watermelon slice i'm also gonna cake a swedish berry and a classic peppermint swirl candy like the kind of candy you'd find in like your grandmother's candy rolls or like when you leave a restaurant let's start with the watermelon slice cake for this cake i baked a 10-inch round green cake and an eight-inch round pink cake i dyed my batter and baked it in different pans depending on which candy it was for if you want exact instructions on what i did just click the link in the description below now that the caramelization is off of the sides i need to cut a hole in the center of this green cake so i'm going to lay a seven inch round cake pan and cut around it i want to cut this cake ring in half so i get like two half moons or two of the letter c and then i'm gonna stack one half of that ring on top of the other but didn't i cut the caramelization off my pink circle i need to remove the caramelization from the pink cake as well so i'm using the same seven inch round pan upside down and cutting that away there's no caramelization in candy except caramels i should have made a caramel and then i also should have made like chewed up gum who wants to see a chewed up gum cake on this channel leave a comment below that'd be a good halloween one now my pink cake should fit neatly into the green cake see how it's becoming watermelony i need to trim my pink cake flush with the straight edge of the green cake because the green part of this cake is in two layers i want to cut my pink little semi-circle into two layers as well because we're just making one slice i realized after i made these i could have baked the pink cake lower too and doubled it up i don't know why that didn't occur to me did i i don't remember what it looks like didn't i do you know picture yeah i did ridges why isn't that written here tell me if there's ridges i don't remember how i cut them or huh yeah so i must have marked it with a ruler to see how i see how i must know when you're trying so yolanda just forgot how she made the cakes so she's in a while she's cheating i feel like it's like i'm like in the movie memento like once i make a cake you know what i mean so how did you make the ridges everything knife how else are you gonna make it yeah but i didn't remember like how i measured it and obviously there was a ruler left okay yeah i did i used it i wanted to create the ridges in the rind of the watermelon slice i used a ruler and i marked five sections and then i used circle cutters my set of circle cutters and just found the right size for each indent and lined it up you know from the mark to the mark and used a small serrated knife to cut out that indent that's what happened so now the watermelon slice is good i'm happy with the shape of it i'm gonna put that one aside and i'm gonna work on my peppermint swirl candy it's like the after dinner mint should i do the one last i think so okay yeah it seems like it's right oh yeah for my swedish berry cake i baked a six inch round cake and a six inch half sphere cake both dyed red i need to level and remove both these cakes and then place the dome on top of the six inch rim now swedish berry is quite intricate you don't really pay attention when you're just popping them in your mouth but they they're meant to kind of look like raspberries so there's all these and i thought right before i started carving i thought why'd i pick this candy i could have picked a swedish fish it would have been way easier so what i thought i'd do is use a small circle cutter and kind of press it into the top of the dome and mark out that pattern and now i need to start to carve it was so difficult and i'm basically going to try and cut out how do i even say this like all the little curves i want to leave behind those circles and cut away all the cake that's in between them so you're cutting the negatives the negative space i used a small serrated knife to remove the negative space from the cakes oh my god you're gonna close this in front yeah how are you gonna get from them why are you doing this see what i'm saying why didn't i pick swedish fish she went to so many times why didn't i just pick a plain cherry lollipop i could have made a round cake covered it shoved a stick what's wrong with me and it's time to move on to the dinner mint of all dinner mints the peppermint squirrel for this cake i baked two nine-inch round cakes and i marbled plain vanilla with red vanilla so i mean it won't be a perfect swirl on the inside but still you it makes you think about peppermint now i need to round off the top edge of each one of these cakes with a small serrated knife so essentially i'm making kind of like two halves of the candy all of my cakes are shaped the way i want them it is time to call in sir squeeze to help me simple syrup them all now that the simple syrup is soaked in i want to fill and crumb coat all three cakes i make sure to fill the inside of my watermelon slice with italian meringue buttercream and then crumb coat the outside for the swedish berry i do the same thing filling the layers with italian wearing buttercream and carefully crumb coating the entire swedish berry making sure to get into all the little nooks that was fun and last but not least i fill and crumb coat my peppermint swirl candy and then i place all of these cakes in the fridge to chill once the crumb coat is chilled you guessed it i ice them all and chill them again that swedish berry is not dumped ice right now we are having a sweet summer sale and everything at how to kick it dot com is up to 40 percent off what summer safe sweet oh is it backward when i do that no it was fine oh i was like did i do this seals semi-sail if you're interested there's a link below it's time to decorate these cakes with fondant i'm going to begin with the watermelon slice and the first thing i'm doing is rolling out some green fondant nice and thin to match the green rind of the cake i want to make sure that my fondant is wide enough to go all the way around my cake and then i drape it over very carefully now i smooth the fondant onto the cake and trim the excess away from the bottom and i also have to trim away any green fondant that is lying on the pink center of the cake now i can roll out some pink fondant you you know exactly what i'm going to do i'm going to roll it out drape it over and make sure i'm covering the pink center of the cake and i'm going to cut away the excess with a sharp paring knife so that it meets the green fondant and i'm also cutting away the excess at the base watermelon slices are coated in sugar so to achieve this look i'm going to lightly brush the entire surface of my cake with some clear piping gel are you going to him and haw through it did you hear him coming in high i'm like i'm going to brush it and then i just used regular granulated sugar and pressed it up against the surface of the cake all the way around and you can just dust off any of the excess okay for my what did you brush on it honestly we need a cody cam what well you you hear it yeah you didn't you as if it was so interesting and you were like oh and then you were like what did you brush on it are you looking at jennifer lawrence on your laptop right now yes yes i can see it he is he is so you brushed sugar sugar no i no i didn't brush sugar i guys guys can you leave a comment below telling orhan to pay attention please thank you it's like he heard three words brush sugar cake that's what he heard swedish pear okay sweet okay icing it is harder than covering it so the main key with the swedish berry is i want to roll my red fondant uh as thin as possible then i drape it over and right away i want to use my fingertips to sort of push it into all the little crevices and valleys because we want to highlight that texture we didn't do all that work for nothing so we want to make sure that we can still see it through the fondant the thicker your fondant is the more you'll sort of lose that shape once the cake is covered i trim away the excess fondant and now i'm going to use a ball tool really gently just to enhance all of those indents so i'm just going to carefully roll that ball tool run that ball tool along all of these sort of lines and indents around the cake this will really enhance it and now paper's tensioner on i'm also going to brush this cake in clear piping gel you want to make sure the piping gel isn't too thick so if you need to dilute it a bit with water that would be great and then just brush the entire surface the swedish berries are well they're a bit shinier than watermelon slices now my swedish berry is done on to the peppermint swirl it's like any meal we have to finish with the peppermint swirl right the first thing i need to do for my peppermint swirl is cover the whole cake in white fondant smooth it all around and trim away the excess if we ate the peppermint swirl first we wouldn't even be able to taste the watermelon in the swedish bear it's true and you don't really chew them right you just let them die at least in your mouth it's the longest candy please subscribe to this channel if you haven't already you can click the icon right here and make sure to hit the notification bell so you know when i baked a new cake i need to create the red swirls on the peppermint swirl candy and for this i'm going to roll out some red fondant nice and thin just as big as my candy i created a template of course for my red swirls and now i'm going gonna cut one of those swirls out of the template with an exacto knife and then i'm going to use that piece and lay it on my red fondant and cut it out over and over again now i can flip all my swirls over brush them with a little bit of clear piping gel here i go brushing with clear piping and lay my swirls onto the cake we just want to make sure that the swirls meet in the center so mark the center of the cake lay on a swirl wrap it around tuck it under and then keep going all the way around so it looks like a consistent sort of pinwheel pattern how can they do this in real life i don't know i want to go to a candy shop i think they they like they have the white and they have the red and then they twist it and then it gets cut yeah i've never done it but if i had to make it entirely out of fondant that's how i do it if you guys were gonna cake your favorite candy which one would you cake leave a comment below and let me know and more importantly i hope you try to cake it just about being creative and trying something new like trying to make a swedish berry even though you know it's difficult but you still try i think i have to eat the swedish berry i feel like i picked the most work thanks for watching i can't wait to see you guys again next tuesday and in the meantime make sure to check out our step-by-step compilation amazing unicorn cakes oh amazing unicorn cakes remember we saw those unicorn candies yeah we shot them right candy i only use that name at night\n"