Make this beautiful cake with video tutorial. Learn how to make this awesome Gumball Machine cake, using your giant cupcake mold! So easy, and yet another great use for your giant cupcake baking pan!
Tools & Equipment:
Candy Jar (lid diameter 9.5cm (3.3/4″) / jar = 15cm (6″) tall 15cm (6″) wide, 11cm (4.5″) deep)
Knife
Circle cutter 8cm (3.1/4″)
Circle cutter 5cm (2″)
Circle cutter 3cm (1.1/4)
Fondant roller (regular rolling pin will do)
Ribbon (I used blue, but you can use any color you like)
Water
Paintbrush
Cornflour (or powdered sugar)
Ingredients:
Giant cupcake (I used Red Velvet — recipe link below)
Gray fondant (I didn’t mix the colour all the way through, which gave me a gray marbled effect)
Red fondant
Giant chocolate cupcake case (made from red candy melts & white chocolate — see tutorial link below)
Cake board (I iced mine orange — see icing board tutorial below)
Spare cake board or cutting board to do the “flip” transfer
Gumballs (or whatever candy you’d like to fill your machine with)
Red candy melts