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 Betty Crocker but I doctor it up. A little almond extract, butter flavor and some cardamon. Yummy!
Looks great. Super excited for the tutorial when it does get posted!
So creative! Beautiful cake.
This is so pretty, Amanda! And, I must admit, I’m in the minority and LIKE canned frosting. I know…it’s terrible. My tastebuds are unrefined.
Now that is the silliest thing I have ever heard! You have a MUCH more refined palate than I! 🙂
Honestly, I buy which ever cake mix is on sale. I haven’t run into any mix that I didn’t like. But recently I’ve started adding more cocoa to my chocolate cake mixes. The chocolate mixes aren’t ever chocolaty enough for me. What can I say, I LOVE chocolate!!
Thank you for your inspiring ideas. I love the candy corn cake!
Agree with you 100% – boxed cake mix can be good but canned frosting is disgusting. Your cake looks great! A simple idea but well-executed. Beautiful!
I would use a cake mix no prob with that. We get Philsburry in India. That works just fine for me. 🙂
Yes, I would use a cake mix and do occasionaly especially with a white cake. If I have a large or multiple cakes to make, I will use one mix and then add my scratch recipe to it. It seems to stay moister longer than a white scratch cake alone. I prefer Duncan Hines mixes but always use butter and milk instead of oil and water. Just makes a better cake. I am going to try to do your icing technique next week with a baby shower cake. Pink, blue and green pastels would look really cute I think. Love your stuff!
When baking chocolate cake, I use a recipe from scratch. In strawberry, I use box cake and add fresh strawberries.
Even though my family loves the cakes from scratch, they STILL want the FUNFETTI box cake sometimes!
My Dad used to make it for them when he was alive, and they just have such fond memories 🙂
Oh what a great giveaway! I think there may be every frosting tip you need in there. I agree, once you go to making your own frosting, it’s really hard to go back to store bought. I have had to do it in a hurry though! I loved this layered frosting look and I look forward to a tutorial!