This cake is completely inspired by candy corn. But not the regular candy corn, Brach’s Indian Corn.
Candy Corn Cake
Ingredients
- 1 box white cake mix
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 3 containers white frosting or three cups
- 1 container chocolate frosting or 1 cup
- Optional: Orange extract
Instructions
- Bake chocolate cake in 8in round cake pan. One cake will be used, so you can wrap the other 8in round cake and place in freezer.
- For the white and orange layers, simply prepare white cake batter as you normally would. Divide batter in half and tint one half orange. (Add orange extract if you wish)
- Bake white cake batter in 8in cake pan and bake orange cake batter in 8in cake pan.
- For frosting, take one container of white frosting and tint it orange. I used gel food coloring and about 4-6 drops.
To assemble cake:
- Place chocolate cake on cake stand. Place thin layer of chocolate frosting.
- Place orange layer on top and cover in thin layer of orange frosting.
- Finally, place white cake on top and cover entire cake in crumb coat.
- Decorate as you wish.
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Have you seen this type of candy corn? With the chocolate on the bottom? I found it to be the perfect cake inspiration! (picture below)
But I went wrong on this cake. I was in a hurry. A BIG hurry. I needed to have this cake done and be out the door in 57 minutes.
So I used all box mixes (which is fine with me!) and canned frosting (horrible mistake).
Something happened. I sampled the canned frosting and thought it tasted like cardboard. Even the chocolate. They were all just awful. I wouldnt feel comfortable serving this cake to anyone. Is it just me? I used to not mind them at all! (To be fair, I stuck to one brand. It could have just been that brand.)
I am a huge proponent of supporting peoples choices in baking… if you want to use canned frosting I would never bat an eye. Heck, I would support and encourage you for choosing to bake!
But for me, I think this was my very last time.
Here are the from-scratch recipes for this cake:
Here is a video of me decorating a cake with the same technique as I used on this Candy Corn Cake.
If you like this cake you will love my new book Surprise-Inside Cakes! (especially the Ombre Cake I share in the book!)
I use cake mix often, but I haven’t used canned frosting in years. So long, in fact, that I’m not qualified to weigh in on this one.
The cake sure looks terrific though! I’ll be excited to see the frosting tutorial!!
Nothing wrong with boxed cake mixes. No brand loyalty here.
I do not use boxed mixes. Mostly because I find putting together a cake from scratch takes only a few more minutes of my time and the taste is definitely worth it. I’m not a huge fan of vegetable oil in cakes (give me butter!) so boxed mixes don’t really taste great to me.
This looks so yummy and I love colors flow right into the next without any seams or spaces!!!
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I have used them, but I really don’t like to anymore. The last time I did I regretted it. Just have to leave myself enough time to bake instead.
My husband LOVES box mixes for some reason so I make them for him! If I’m making a cake for anyone else I make it from scratch!
I’m still a huge fan of boxed cake mix, but you’re right about frosting. Pillsbury never fails me, though!
I use boxed mixes in a pinch, but love to add a little something to give them some extra oomph, maybe a shot of flavoring. I’m a Duncan Hines kind of girl when I need to be, their mixes are so moist!
I only use Dunkin Hines. For some reason, the others have too much of a chemical taste for me. Definitely prefer making my own frosting though. Can’t stomach the canned stuff.
I love this cake! I really want to bake something with candy corn or something candy-corn-inspired, but I’m not sure what yet.
As for boxed cake mixes and frostings, I use boxed mixes sometimes when I know I’m not going to have much time. I kind of don’t like canned frosting, though. I think it might be the consistency or something. It doesn’t hold up well when you pipe with it either. I read somewhere that if you whip it or beat it with a mixer for a few minutes it gets lighter and fluffier. I tried that recently and it was better, but I still prefer homemade frosting.