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    Home » Recipes » Cake Decorating Tutorials

    Candy Pour Cake~ A Gravity Defying Cake Video Tutorial

    January 30, 2015 By Melissa Diamond 32 Comments

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    In this free cake video tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make an impressive and easy candy pour cake for Valentine's Day!

    The techniques that we will demonstrate in this video can be used for endless design options. Gravity defying cakes are always going to bring the WOW factor!

     

    Amazing Candy Pour Cake! - A gravity defying cake tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com.

     

    In this cake video tutorial, I'm going to show you how easy it is to create a sturdy support system for cakes that feature something suspended that is lightweight.  In this case, we're suspending a gift bag with candy spilling from it, but there are endless options: candy wrappers, soda or beer cans/plastic bottles, cartons, etc.

    With Valentine's Day just around the corner, we thought that it would be fun to use a gift bag so that we could incorporate all sorts of candy rather than just one kind.  I hope that you enjoy the video!  We had so much fun making it ;0)

     

    Materials

    (*Our cake is a 3 layer White Almond Sour Cream cake, frosted with our Fluffy Buttercream Frosting recipe.)

    3 Ten inch Cake Cardboards or Foam Core circles for the cake base

    1 eight inch cake cardboard (I always have one board which is the same size of the cake.)

    Hot Glue/glue (We hot glue our 3 boards together to create base.)

    Something to wrap cake base as usual (We used a white plastic tablecloth)

    Wooden Dowel, ¼ inch thick (ours was also 17 inches long.)

    Pencil sharpener for sharpening the dowel (Keep an inexpensive one on hand for kitchen use only) ;0)

    Gift Bag

    Piping Gel and Small Paint Brushes

    Assorted Candy of your choice

    Fondant  for building out the candy (Optional, but a big time saver and less candy will be needed.)

    Miscellaneous: Spatula, Tape, Paper Towel or other "filler" for bag,

    This Candy Pour Cake Tutorial is one of our favorites from our member cake video section!

     

     

     

    Candy Pour Cake

     

     

     

     

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    1. Dolly Nandu February 17, 2016 at 11:36 pm

      Hello Melissa, I am Dolly Nandu from Maine State USA..... i am totally a beginner in cake decorating series....really loved the way of your tutorials...as they are very easy to follow...i have a question to you ... from where did you get the wooden dowel of 1/4" Diameter x 17" Long ... I am not able to find it specially 17" Long...can you help me in this....

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    2. Dolly Nandu February 19, 2016 at 9:37 pm

      Hi Melissa,

      Can i expect a Reply..??? to my above question of dt. 17 Feb-16 @ 11:36 pm....

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    3. BeBe February 19, 2016 at 9:54 pm

      Hi Dolly, I'm so sorry your question was overlooked. We usually buy our dowels from Michael's but any craft store should have them. Ours originally was longer than 17 inches, we cut it down to that length. I'm sorry we didn't make that clear in the video.

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    4. Melissa Diamond February 19, 2016 at 10:07 pm

      Yes, sorry Dolly! That is so strange, I totally remember typing up a response to this... I must have never hit "post" before closing out the page- As Mom said in the comment above, our dowels came from Michaels. Just go with a length that you think looks good..it's okay if it isn't exactly 17 inches (although the 1/4 inch thickness is good...something thinner could snap). Have fun making the cake & thanks for following up ;0)

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    5. Dolly Nandu February 19, 2016 at 11:57 pm

      Thank you so much for replying me....& its completely fine don't have to say sorry Melissa & Bebe...
      Well will try to look for it @ Michael's as its near to my house...

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    6. Joanetta Anthony February 3, 2017 at 10:07 pm

      I made it!!! The tutorial was excellent, I am a beginner and was able to follow along and make it. Thank you for the tutorial.

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    7. BeBe February 3, 2017 at 10:20 pm

      Wonderful, Joanetta, we are so happy you made this cake. Thanks so much for your review!!

      Reply
    8. Sylvia Reyna April 5, 2017 at 9:59 pm

      What size gift bag did you use? Thank you.

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