we are making a Candy Crush Jelly Saga cake complete with little jelly cubes which you

have to spread when you play the game.

I'll show you some gameplay at the end of this one and you can download the game using

the link below.

And as well as that today we've got a giveaway, I love doing giveaways.

I am giving away 2 ipad minis and 1 ipad, that's right.

And I'll tell you at the end how you can enter for your chance to win one of these.

Now first of all what we need to do to make this cake is make the actual cake of course.

I used one of my chocolate cake recipe baked in two 8-inch round tins and 1 and a half

times sponge cake recipe baked in 3 8-inch rounds.

For the frosting, we'll make some buttercream using butter or margarine and icing sugar.

And we'll mix that with some white chocolate ganache that we'll make using white chocolate

and cream.

And I'm just using compound chocolate for this one.

Just pour the cream over that chocolate and microwave it for 30 seconds and then stir

it well.

Now microwaves heat unevenly so you do need to stir it, you can't just add up the times

and put it in or it will burn.

Zap it for another 30 seconds and you'll see now it's just starting to soften, so stir

that through then 30 seconds more and we're nearly there.

Stir it again and then I want you to just give it 20 seconds more in the microwave and

then stir that until it's smooth and you can't see any more lumps in it.

Pour that into a flat container and then we'll spread it out thin and place that in the freezer

for about 30 minutes to chill.

If you're not in a rush you can just leave it in the bowl at room temperature overnight

instead.

Add the icing sugar to the margarine and mix that together until it is smooth then spoon

in the ganache.

See how thick that white chocolate ganache is now that it's chilled and then just put

it in and let it combine to make a beautiful creamy frosting.

Cut each of your cakes into two even layers and then spread some frosting onto your cake

board to stop the cake from slipping, then place your first layer of cake in the middle

and spread that with our creamy frosting, then add a layer of chocolate cake and continue

to layer up 6 layers and then cover the whole thing in frosting, smoothing out the sides

and flattening the top.

Now take a Twizzler and place it diagonally across the side of the cake and then add another

one right next to it.

And then continue to add more right around the cake in a rainbow of colours and this

is a very easy way to make a pretty cake.

For the top tier, use a bowl to cut a smaller circle.

Now if you have a smaller cake tin, you can of course bake it in that size, most of us

just have standard tins so this is a cheat's way of doing it.

Add that to the cake board and stack it up like before and cover that with frosting too.

And then place that in the fridge.

To support our top cake we use cake pop sticks.

Just poke it into the cake and then pull it out, taking note of where the top of the cake

was and trim it off to that length.

Then cut 2 more to match and poke them back into the cake and we do this so that the weight

of that top tier and the candy don't squash the bottom cake and make the whole thing crooked.

I managed to find candy at the store for some of these but I've had to improvise for the

other ones.

Take a chewy yellow candy and microwave it for about 10 seconds to soften it and it will

become quite mouldable like this.

Roll it into a ball and then squeeze it into a tear drop shape and then placing it on a

flat surface, squash the lower edge just using your fingers to make it look like the lemon

drops in the game.

For those green gum squares, roll a snake of green fondant and then just cut it into

little squares.

To make a few of our candies special and stripey either roll out or use a fondant extruder

to get a really thin snake of white.

And then just wrap it around some of your candies.

If you use a little bit of water on the white fondant it will make it stick.

To make the Colour Bomb I found these chocolate coated raspberries and I'm just going to add

little drops of chocolate and using that, attach sugar pearls on top.

Now you could use flat sprinkles or whatever you can get where you live and these look

really good on the cake.

I also couldn't find any blue Lifesavers so I'm just painting food colour onto these white

ones to make them the right colour.

For the jelly I'm using store bought jelly that is still set at room temperature so it

must have been made Agar which is perfect for this.

Just slice it into little cubes and you don't want to add the jelly cubes to the cake until

about 30 minutes before you are going to serve it and just pop the jelly on at the last minute.

Take the top layer and pop some pink frosting around the base there, cream in the middle

and blue around the top and the top of the cake.

This is just the same frosting with the white chocolate ganache and buttercream that we

made before, I've just used some of the leftover and added gel colours to it.

Flatten out the top and then smooth out the sides, taking off the excess frosting.

Then use your spatula to push any excess in towards the centre of the cake.

Warm your spatula in hot water, dry it off, and then run it around the cake to make it

really smooth and dreamy looking.

Use the leftover pink frosting to pipe stars around the top of the base layer and this

helps to even up the edges of the Twizzlers if they're not quite level there.

Then add your top layer into place on top of the cake.

To cover the silver board we just want to dampen it with a little bit of water and then

add a strip of pink fondant around the base of the cake.

Smooth it down using your hands and then trim off the excess and you can see that I see

I have the cake sitting on a bowl here I just find that makes it easier to turn the cake

when you're decorating it.

And now the fun part, adding the candy to the cake.

Arrange them around the base of the top tier and around the bottom tier there and then

on top add a whole jelly and a lollipop and then we'll add a marshmallow for the Puffler

and fill the gaps with more candy.

And there you have it, a beautiful colourful Candy Crush Jelly Saga cake.

Now for how to enter the competition to win one of these ... What you need to do is click

on the link below this video and there are 2 questions on the entry form.

You must get those questions correct otherwise your entry will not count and then you enter

your entry in and the best answer will be chosen so take a bit of time just deciding

what you're going to write there for that one.

Let's play the game.

Sweet!

So if we have a look here we have one of those giant chocolatey balls that we've made here.

If you combine that with anything, whatever colour you combine it with, it will get rid

of all that colour, how cool was that.

Now the object of the game, what we're trying to do is spread the jelly, the little jelly

cubes, everywhere so that there's nowhere that doesn't have it.

So looking for the blue squares, we want to try and get rid of them.

And the way that you do that is you drag other things across to make a line or a square so

that we can spread it.

So if you just move say this one here on the jelly, see how it didn't spread the jelly,

so it has to be going across onto the blue as well to have an effect.

So if we move this yellow one, perfect.

And by combining 4 in a row, we got a stripey one, and they've got special powers so we

can do extra things with that in a minute.

Let's just move that one up, get rid of a bit.

You only have so many moves, up in the top corner there it's telling how many moves I've

got left.

Fish are good because you can make them 3 in a row with their colour, they'll just bloop

bloop bloop bloop along.

Or if you can combine them with a special one then they do even more stuff but we don't

have it next to a special at the moment.

Ah, now it's next to a special one so let me show you.

Combine the fish with a special.

See that?

That's pretty cool.

So we're nearly there, we'll get rid of this little bit of jelly over here.

Now I haven't been playing this game for very long so I'm only on an early level.

Let me know in the comment what level you're up to.

There you go!

Done.

So there you have it, click on the link below to download the game and also don't forget

to click on the link to enter the competition and do remember the first 2 questions have

to be correct for your entry to count.

If you get 1 of those questions wrong we don't even read your answer.

You have to get the first 2 questions right and then from the ones who have those right

we read all the answers and choose the best one to win, or the best 3 because we've got

3 prizes.

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