Candy Lover's Birthday Cake

By Resk8r

Ingredients

• Here is what you will need to make it:
• •4 (9" x 1 1/4") styrofoam disks
• •nontoxic adhesive, such as Beacon Fabri-Tac
• •DecoArt acrylic paint in bright yellow
• •11 (5" - 6") candy bars
• •22 small bags of candies
• •small wrapped candies (they used 20 Reese's Peanut Butter cups, 10 foil wrapped chocolate stars and 10 strawberry hard candies)
• •Large flat candy for center (they used a York Peppermint Patty)
• •1 yard each 1 1/2" yellow ribbon and 2 1/2" red ribbon
• •"Birthday" letter stickers
• •Scraps of stiff paper in assorted colors
• •7 crystals to match papers
• •"Happy" stickers or small stickers spelling "happy"
• •Birthday candles

Preparation

Step 1

Directions:
Glue disks together to make a 5" high stack. Paint top yellow. When dry, glue candy bars and bags of candies around cake, alternating and gluing 2 bags per space, one above the other. Glue a ring of small candies around top edge, then a ring contrasting candies inside it, then another ring. Glue large candy at center.

Glue yellow ribbon along center of red ribbon and stick "birthday" letters at center. Wrap ribbon around cake, overlapping ends 1". Trim excess; glue. Secure ribbon to candy in several places with dabs of glue. Cut 7 (2 3/4") paper stars; glue a crystal to center of each. Glue a star on each side of "birthday", one to cover seam and two more on each side, spaced evenly. Add "happy" stickers above "birthday". Insert candles between candies.