Candy Barn Cake

Candy on cake always makes little eyes light up! We went with a barn birthday cake, decorated with red licorice, Skittles, swirl lollipops, and Andes chocolate mints on the roof. To give the cake some height, I constructed it similar to a multi-tier wedding cake.

Ingredients

• 2 Rectangular layered cakes
• Red licorice sticks
• Skittles, swirl lollipops, and Andes chocolate mints
• Animal farm crackers
• 1 Cup white icing

Directions

• Place one rectangular layer cake, about 4-inches high, on a large cake board (available at most craft stores or bakeries). This is the bottom cake.
• Place another rectangular cake on a cake board that is cut to the exact length and width of the cake. This is the top cake.
• Cut 8 wooden dowels, as long as the cake is high; a 4-inch high cake would require 4-inch long dowels. Insert dowels vertically into the bottom cake; dowels act as "columns" to support the top cake. Frost the cake with white icing.
• Create a barn roof from Styrofoam.
• Frost the entire roof with icing, and set it on top of the cake.
• Decorate the cake with red licorice for the barn siding, mini chocolate bars or Andes mints for the roof, candy for accents, and animal crackers.