Supplies needed:
1 – 10” cardboard cake round (sold in any craft store or cake store.
2 – 8” x 1” Styrofoam circles
2 – 6” x 1" Styrofoam circles
2 – 4” x 1" Styrofoam circles
Wrapper Templates
Hershey's Mini Candies (4” layer 12, 6” layer 19, 8" layer 26, 10" layer 33)
Foam Covering
Adhesive (glue dots, two sided tape or glue gun)
Decorations (other candies, cake topper, ribbon, theme favors)
Note: I put my logo and business info on the inside of each wrapper I just ran them through the printer twice.

1. Print and put together your mini’s make sure that you tightly apply the wrappers to each mini so that when you put it on the cake the mini’s do not slip out of the wrappers.
2. Cover your Styrofoam. I went ahead and wrapped mine with Christmas paper and used the circles for the tops. The next ones I do I am going to just wrap the complete layer with wrapping paper. If you want to save on costs you can just use the circles I have enclosed for the tops. I found the two-sided tape or glue dots worked good for this step.
(do not glue the Styrofoam layers together it is easier to add the mini’s to each layer individually)
3. Lay out your design with your mini’s before you start putting them on the cake layers this way you can move them around and change them before they are stuck to the layers.

4. I started with the 4” layer and started glueing my mini’s to this. I placed them on the top of the Styrofoam layer which leaves a little space towards the bottom don’t worry about this as it will be covered with our ribbon and other decorations. I started with the left side of my wrappers and worked my way around. I found this to work the best as I had a little bit of a gap which I was able to space the last few wrappers out a bit as to hide the gap (I also used some ribbon and things to hide it more)
   Again I found that using glue dots worked well and I also was able to use the hot glue gun but I would put the dot of glue on the Styrofoam and then place my mini on top of that to be sure that the candy did not melt in any way and could still be eaten and sold.


(sorry camera does not like me).

I adhered all the mini’s to each layer.

5. Once you have applied all your mini’s to the layers and they have dried it is time to build the cake.
   • Now I put the 8” layer on top of the 10” card board cake circle. (I still have not glued it)
   • Then put the 6” layer on top of that.
   • Now add your 4” layer.
   I played with mine until I got it placed exactly the way I wanted it and made sure the letters and words where aligned properly. Now I went ahead and used my hot glue gun to glue the layers down.
6. Now we will begin to add decorations and hide any foam that is showing. On mine you can see around the tops of each layer I added a colored cord. Choosea topper and glue or adhere to the top. Depending on the topper, you can glue or use a skewer, we also added a few Santa Candies to ours to make it look festive.
7. Then we used the ribbon around the different layers to fill in gaps and make the cake look festive. I found some small ornaments at Walmart that we added along with the mini bows.

Your not limited here you can do anything to decorate your cake that is what is so much fun about this project your only limited by your imagination.

The same concepts apply if you are building a 2 layer or a 10 layer

8. Here’s the finished cake.....

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