Hi everyone Moxxie Muse
Michelle here with a fun tutorial and a great gift. I need to begin this post with my current health condition. I fell down the stairs at my house and broke my ankle in three places. I know...ouch. I had surgery last Wednesday and have been on the couch since. My craft room is upstairs and I fear it may be a little longer before I get up there. I wanted to get a blog post done so I searched back to see which projects I made that have not been put into blog post form. I found this great tutorial for the candy bar cake and I thought it was perfect. You may have seen the pictures of it on Facebook already but this is a tutorial.
When I saw a picture of one of these cakes on Pinterest I loved it. You can find the blog post
here.
She used nugget candy bars but I wanted to use full size. Also, she was charging for her tutorial and that is okay but I knew I would have different sizes, etc. so I decided to forge ahead on my own. I knew I could do it.
Here is my finished "cake".
I thought it turned out really fun and great to look at...let alone dig into and eat!
Supplies needed:
Merry Unbirthday patterned papers, stickers and die cuts
Candy Bars - I used Hershey Bars - full size, Butterfinger - minis and Reese's - full size but individually wrapped from the bag and Brachs individual candies to fill in
Wire & Wire cutters
Ribbon
Adhesive and scotch tape
Circle cutter or machine that cuts circles - I used Cricut
Different sizes of round base. I used a plastic container and a TP tube but old tins would work good too.
Paper Trimmer
Ruler
Ink pad - black
Chipboard for bottom
Are you ready? Here we go!
Step 1: The Base Piece
Measure your bottom base this would be the largest base you have for your cake. Cut a piece of chipboard and patterned paper about 2 inches larger than your base. This will give you about 1" all the way around for your base piece. Cover the chipboard with the patterned paper to make it look good. Then ink the edges with black ink. I love this but you can skip the inked edges if you want.
Next, place scotch tape on your base (sticky side in) so you can stick it to the covered chipboard piece. This is a little awkward and maybe you have a better way but this is what I did.
Center it and stick it to the base piece as best you can. The tape does not show once the candy bars are place onto the base.
Step 2: Covering the Bars
Measure your candy bars and decide which papers you want to use for each layer. I alternated patterns for all of the Hershey bars and the Butterfinger bars. For the Reese's cups I used the same pattern but alternated the direction.
If you are inking the edges, be sure to do that before you get them attached to the candy bars.
Use a piece of scotch tape to hold the paper to the candy bar, then wrap it around and use glue to hold it down. Try not to look at the calories in the candy bars. LOL
I think it is fun to have some of the candy bar wrapper sticking out each side.
Repeat this process for all of the candy bars.
Step 3: Build the first layer
I needed to figure out how much space I needed between the candy bars. I may have been able to fit one more on the base but I only had six so I made it work. I filled in with the Brach's candy between each bar. I used glue dots to adhere the bars to the base. They are really sticky and worked great. I alternated the patterns and went all the way around. You can see the process in the pictures below.
After you are all the way around, tie a ribbon around the layer. This also helps to keep everything in place.
Then cut a circle to fit on the top of the base before you start the next layer.
This part could been seen after the cake is done and you don't want your base to show. Especially if you are using a Christmas tin or something as your base.
Step 4: Complete Second Layer
The second layer for me worked a lot like the first but much smaller. Then because my TP tube was so much smaller than the first layer I filled in with the Reese's Pnut Butter cups It made it look better.
I covered the tube with some patterned paper. Then used the same scotch tape process.
Then used the glue dots to adhere the Butterfinger bars. Now I wanted them to be close to the top of the TP tube so there was a gap between the top of the first base and the bottom of the Butterfinger bars.
This is where I needed the Reese's cups. In the next photo you can see them placed between the top of the Hershey bar and the Butterfinger bars.
I knew I wanted to add wire and some fun embellishments to the top of the "cake". So I needed something inside the TP tube to hold the wire in place. I really wanted florist foam. I think that would have worked great but I did not have any. So I stuffed it with tissue paper.
Then I cut another piece of patterned paper to cover this so the tissue would not show.
I inked the edges before placing it on. Then I poked the wire through the paper into the tissue and tweaked it a little until it was hanging the way I wanted. I used two of some of the stickers and die cuts and placed them back to back on the ends of the wires.
I tied a ribbon at the base of the wires to help keep them together. And here, once again is the final product. I loved the way it turned out.
And here is the perfect card you can make to go with it using the same line of paper.
I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and will think about this for one of your friends of family members. It is so much fun to make and probably even more fun to receive.
Until next time,
Michelle
