Candy Land Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 (18 1/4 ounce) packages cake mix, of your choice
vanilla frosting
chocolate frosting
green food coloring, spray (optional)
ASSORTED DECORATIONS
Starburst candies
red fruit roll-up
red coarse sugar
dots candy
regular and miniature peanut butter cup
chocolate sprinkles
1 large and small gumdrop
dum dum pops candy
miniature candy canes
clear and blue rock candy
cake and waffle ice cream cones
multicolored candy sprinkles
green colored crystal sugar
miniature marshmallow
round peppermint candy
conversation heart candy

Preparation

Line two 13-inch x 9-inch baking pans with waxed paper and grease the paper. Prepare cake batter; pour into prepared pans. Bake according to package directions. Cool for 15 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely; remove waxed paper.
Level tops of cakes; place side by side on a covered board. Frost top and sides of cake with vanilla frosting; mist with food color spray, if desired.
With Candy Land game board as your guide, form a path using Starburst candies. With vanilla frosting, pipe \"Happy Birthday\" on candies. With chocolate frosting, make an arrow, pipe \"Start\" on the arrow with vanilla frosting.
For the Mountain/Gumdrop pass, use a red Fruit Roll-Up, red coarse sugar and Dots.
For the Forests, add peanut butter cups topped with piped chocolate frosting, chocolate jimmies (sprinkles), gumdrops, Dum Dum pops, candy canes and rock candies.
For the Castle, pipe vanilla frosting into ice cream cones, garnish with Dots and sprinkles.
Between the pathways, add green colored sugar, sprinkles, miniature marshmallows, peppermints and conversation hearts. Pipe additional frosting to fill in spaces; top with sprinkles.
Pipe vanilla frosting around base of cake; place peppermints around the top edge of cake.
NOTE: This cake is best eaten the day it's prepared. Do not refrigerate.