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!)
Yes, and Betty Crocker!
I would use a box…I like Duncan Hines! Love the look of this cake!
I go to an annual ladies only Halloween party that this would be perfect for! Thank you so much for such a great giveaway!
Hey..how I want this giveaway so..bad…
As to the Question , here we get many local varieties of Cake mixes and I prefer the Betty Crocker’s moist chocolate cake mix…coz it is soft , cottony and fluffy 🙂 (Nothing wrong with using pre-mixes when you are in a hurry…) Mix it with some vanilla buttercream and You have a (wait for it)…….winner..:D
I love using boxed cake mix, but I doctor mine and add extra ingredients. My favorite to use is Triple Chocolate Fudge by Betty Crocker. I have ‘from scratch’ chocolate cake recipes, but none compare to this one. 🙂
I use Duncan Hines cake mix when I’m busy or cheap, but nothing beats the flavor of homemade. I always thought I wasn’t a cake person, until I started making my own from scratch!
Very creative looking cake! I agree – homemade icings do taste better, but I’m not opposed to the store bought kind.
Yes I would…Pillsbury Funfetti Cake Mix is my favorite.
I am all about using cake mixes because of the convenience and a bit of cost-saving (rather than keeping all the individual ingredients on hand). Plus you can still make such unique cake flavors by using the mix as your base and adding in various replacements for the eggs/oil/water components. I even consider it a challenge to myself to bake so that no one can tell it’s a box mix.
however canned frosting – never again. It’s never the right consistency for decorating and is too sweet for my liking. all of that aside, I love this cake! (and can easily be repeated sans canned frosting) – thanks for sharing!
I love this cake. So simple yet elegant. I do not use store bought icing at all anymore. I think it is way too sweet tasting after all the home made recipes I have made. I use a yellow cake mix once in a while for a doctored up banana cake. Other wise, all from scratch.
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