Decorating With Twizzlers
15 Apr 2015

Decorating With Twizzlers

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My very creative friend Anthea (of craftingten5seven) and I like to send each other links or pins we think might interest each other. I send her oodles of craft ideas and inspiration (sometimes I worry I am sending her too much!), and she sends me fun decorating ideas for cakes and cookies. Recently she sent me this link to a fun spring cake decorated with rainbow Twizzlers. I couldn’t wait to try it! It was so bright and cheerful!

Usually I make my decorations out of fondant, buttercream, and royal icing, but I love all of the creative ideas out there using different candies, cookies, and chocolates. I have made two cakes (1, 2) using Kit Kats, and for the first one I also used Teddy Grahams and peach rings, and for the second I also used Mini Eggs. It had been a while since I did those cakes, so it was fun to work with a candy decoration again.

Unfortunately, I was in a bit of a rush and didn’t take my time with the icing or the flowers decorating the cake. The icing was far too thin so the Twizzler pieces didn’t sit as well as I’d have liked. I had so many ideas for different flowers and butterflies, but I cut things quickly and only did a few. Even though the cake wasn’t as polished as I’d have liked, I still had fun experimenting. And then I quickly cut up the cake to share a bunch with Anthea and some with Lindsey & Charlie, too. We didn’t need a big cake all to ourselves!

I decided that I shouldn’t be the only one having fun decorating with the Twizzlers, so I used some leftover cupcakes and icing to quickly make some cupcake canvases for Leighton and Riley to experiment with, as well! They had a lot of fun and couldn’t wait to taste them. Leighton was a fan, especially of the green, but Riley didn’t like them at all so we had to pick them off her cupcake without wasting too much of the icing that she does love!

I also put together little cupcake decorating packs to take to Maeve & Nash and Sylvie & Mireille. Anthea sent some pictures of the girls with their creations, and she let me know how much she liked the Twizzlers, so I gave her the rest of the bag to snack on during their road trip on Easter weekend!

For anyone interested, I got the bag of Twizzlers for $2 at Target (well, I didn’t – Roy picked them up for me one night!) for the large family sized bag. And there are many more pictures and tutorials online of ways to use the rainbow Twizzlers, too. Let me know if you try out the cake, cupcakes, or any of these other ideas!

11 Responses

  1. Lindsey
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    These were so fun! The kids were so intrigued because of the color and feel of the little twirlers. Nash said it was like the perler beads at school.

  2. Lindsey
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    Twizzlers. 😉 not twirlers. But the kids do twirl with excitement when becky drops cookies and cakes!

    • Becky {Rebecca Cakes & Bakes}
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      I am glad I can make them twirl with excitement! And glad they had fun decorating their dessert 🙂

  3. pollysplayground
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    i really love this idea! and how fun for the kids too! have you shown them how to snip off the ends and use them as drinking straws? so yummy with milk! and funny – only last week i was wishing (out loud) for some good ol’ black licorice twizzlers… i’ve never tried (or even seen) rainbow ones!

    • Becky {Rebecca Cakes & Bakes}
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      I am pretty sure there wasn’t a ‘closed’ end to these Twizzlers to bite off, and I have not shown the kids how to make them into straws – I will leave for an Auntie Hannah visit 😉 I will have to try to remember to send licorice in next year’s shipment to you!

  4. Mom
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    I was introduced to rainbow twizzlers by Aunt Susan (I think) when she brought them to a baseball game in Seattle many years ago. Then I would buy them somewhere to bring home every time we went to the US. I don’t think we can get them around home (well, maybe in a big city somewhere), but I do buy black licorice twizzlers when they are on sale. Never thought of using them as a straw.

    • Becky {Rebecca Cakes & Bakes}
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      I guess I will need to be sending rainbow Twizzlers to you, too!

  5. Anthea
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    Thanks for the cake and decorating kits! Clearly my girls’ idea of decorating was just to see how many twizzler pieces they could possibly cram onto a cupcake! I am now a certified rainbow twizzler addict!

    • Becky {Rebecca Cakes & Bakes}
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      Who knew you’d become an addict?!?! I am glad your girls had fun with the cupcakes!

  6. Pam
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    Oh my! Why have I never thought of decorating with candy. That Kit Kat, M&M, Twizzler cake would seriously be my kids’ heaven. I’m contemplating if I should let them see that or not. Lol!

    • Becky {Rebecca Cakes & Bakes}
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      I think you should make it, Pam! It’s so fun and colorful!!!