For Kathy's birthday there was a lot of cake baking going on in the kitchen. Kathy was working on a cake and cupcakes to take with her to work, while Paul was making a cake for us to celebrate with. About a week earlier we were at the store and were looking at the Halloween/Fall/Thanksgiving decorations that had just been put out on the shelves. There was a candy corn shaped and colored platter that Kathy liked. We decided that a candy corn shaped cake would be a lot of fun to make. As Kathy is partial to candy corn, Paul decided to make the cake for her birthday.
In staying with a fall theme, we decided to use a cinnamon swirl cake mix and top it with cream cheese icing. The cinnamon cake baking certainly gave off a warm, fall aroma.
A single layer rectangle cake was cut down to the familiar candy corn shape. Typically we level the tops of the cakes to even them out, but in this case the natural rounding from the cake rising while baking helped give it the candy corn shape.
The icing was separated into three bowls and colored appropriately. There really isn't much to this cake as far as decorating or bells and whistles, but it is fun to look at. The next step is to try to make this cake with honey infused flavors to try to make it taste like a real piece of candy corn. Perhaps for Christmas we'll have to take on another seasonal favorite, the candy cane!
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