Birthday Cake Ideas - Gift Wrapped Cake

Ingredients

• Cake mix (check directions for ingredients needed)
• Vanilla frosting
• Fruit flavored candy ribbons
• Colorful candies for decoration
• Kitchen scissors

Birthday Cake Ideas – Decoration Instructions

1. Follow the directions on the cake mix box to create a layer cake
2. Note: If you wish, bake in 9×13-inch pan and cut to make a layer cake
3. Let the cake cool completely
4. Frost the cake, be sure to put a layer of frosting between the layers
5. Use the Fruit flavored candy ribbons to make ribbons on the cake
6. On the tails of the ribbons, make a V cut on each
7. To make the bow, simply cut the candy ribbon into a strip and curl to make a circle. Make 2 small circles, 1 large circle, and 2 circles slightly smaller than the large circle
8. Cut a piece of the Fruit flavored candy ribbons to use as the ribbon to hold the circles all together
9. Pinch the 3 largest circles together in the middle
10. Place one smaller circle on either side of the pinched circles. Hold on to only the inside closest to the other circles (do not pinch in both sides)
11. Run the ribbon though the circles to hold together. Pinch to adhere.
12. Lay the bow on top of the cake in the middle.
13. Use the colorful candies on the open area of the cake for decoration.

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