Craftibilities: tower

I love how this Butterfingers candy cake turned out!

This was kinda last minute after I asked my son for weeks about a gift for a friend. He had it covered because he was earning or building something special in a game for him. When I inquired about it being done by the weekend and he seemed surprised and said no. So you need a gift? Of course he does.

I've still love candy bouquets but a candy cake sounded fun. I saw a few online but they used styrofoam and it's kinda pricey. I decided to make my own tiers.

This was a gift for a birthday party. We've known him for years and he absolutely loves Butterfingers.

This can be done with any candy. I can't wait to try it again!

Supplies:

Cake plate

Poster board

Hot glue gun & glue

Candy (obviously)

Basket filler (paper or foil shreds)

Candy:

4 Butterfinger Cups

7 Butterfinger Bites (box)

7 Butterfinger Bars

1 bag of Butterfinger Fun Size

If I wasn't making this the night before the party, I would've purchased Halloween candy on sale or looked for better prices.

Total cost of candy and basically the cake was $22

I had the cake plate. Jake took them home several years ago at the end of a school year. The teacher was throwing them out. (Made the eyes for making your house come alive post)

I also had the gold glitter poster board from a new years craft idea I never made and metallic foil shreds from a teacher appreciation gift idea. Both purchased at the $1 store.

The tags were $.20 to print at Walgreens.

NOTE: This might be easier to make a square cake with boxes but I just love how the round cake looked.

I tested the size of the cake plate with the candy I purchased to see if I was going to cut the cake plate down or if everything would fit. It fit perfectly!!

I traced the cake plate on the back of the poster board, cut, and attached with hot glue.

I measured the candy know how tall to make each cake tier. Make sure to cut the strips of poster board a little shorter than what the candy measured. Now you can put extra candy or paper shreds on top of each tier.

Attach with hot glue.

I gently traced the base and cut the circle a little larger. This will allow a little room to attach the top to the base. Hot glue around the edge and inside. The candy hides the hot glue so don't worry if it looks a little messy.

Hot glue to the cake plate.

Attach candy with hot glue or glue dots. I probably would've used glue dots for the candy but I was out.

Repeat the steps to create the second tier.

I didn't have enough cups for the top tier so I hot glued two fun size together. Then I hot glued those to another set making four fun size to equal one cup package. Sorry, sounds confusing.