Ingredients 1 ounce Blue Candy Melts® Candy 1 ounce Pink Candy Melts Candy 1 ounce Yellow Candy Melts® Candy 4 1/2 cups Favorite cake recipe or mix 2 1/2 cups Buttercream Frosting 2 1/2 cups Buttercream Frosting Tools 12 in. Disposable Decorating Bags Candy Melting Plate 6 x 2 in. Round Pan 10 x 16 Non-Stick Cooling Rack 8 in. Cake Circles Straight Stainless Steel Spatula, 9-Inch Straight Stainless Steel Spatula, 9-Inch Instructions Click to mark complete - Make candy buttons. Melt blue, pink and yellow Candy Melts candy. separately, according to package directions. Use melted blue candy in cut decorating bag to pipe about 1/4 teaspoon of candy into each cavity of candy melting plate; buttons will measure approx. 1/2 in. across. Refrigerate until firm, about 5 to 10 minutes. Make 32 blue buttons. Repeat to make 32 pink buttons and 32 yellow buttons. - Make layered cake. Prepare batter following recipe directions. Bake and cool 2-layer cake. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe directions. Layer and fill for a 4 in. high cake. Use spatula and icing to ice cake smooth. - Add buttons. Use dots of icing to attach flat side of candy buttons to side of cake, making two vertical rows of four same-color candy buttons. Repeat four times around cake with each color.
