Delightful Donuts Cake

The best decoration for a cake is delicious cake donuts! A great treat for a brunch party or an awesome birthday cake for any donut lover, this Delightful Donuts Cake uses the trick of store-bought donuts for a quick and easy decorating trick (no one has to know!). Add your own decorations to the store-bought donuts by dipping them in melted candy and covering them with sprinkles. An easy cake for beginners, this sweet treat is almost too cute to eat!

Skill LevelBeginner

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Bake cake. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool two cake layers. Level, fill and stack layers for 6 in. high cake. Crumb coat cake. Chill until set, about 20 minutes.
Tint icing. Tint 3½ cups icing bright yellow using color combination provided. Combine Lemon Yellow and a tiny bit of Leaf Green icing colors to get bright yellow color shown. Ice cake smooth. Chill until ready to decorate.
Decorate donuts. In three shallow containers, melt Turquoise, Orange and Pink Candy Melts candy with EZ Thin, separately, according to package instructions.
Dip donuts into melted candy, topping some with sprinkles and drizzling others with another shade of melted candy in disposable bags. Let set, about 15 to 20 minutes.
Decorate cake. Arrange small donuts around bottom of cake.
Dip lollipop sticks into candy, then insert into medium-sized donuts. Chill until set, about 10 to 15 minutes. Insert into top of cake.