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dottyColor butter cream orange. Spread the top of each cake evenly with the butter cream. Position orange Smarties and orange mini M&M’s on each cake.

checkerboardColor butter cream white. Spread the top of each cake evenly with the butter cream. Remove orange fondant sections from Licorice Allsorts, cut each section into four squares. Make a checkerboard pattern on the cakes with the fondant squares.

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fruity stripesSpread the top of each cake evenly with butter cream. Halve yellow and orange soft fruit sticks crossways. Trim the ends of the fruit sticks to fit neatly on the top of each cake.

spiralsColor butter cream yellow. Spread the top of each cake evenly with the butter cream. Make spirals, starting from the center of the cake, using different sized yellow candies–we used Rainbow Chips, then mini M&M’s, then Smarties to create the spiral.

make a wishSplit white mini marshmallows in half horizontally. Color glacé icing blue. Working with one cake at a time, spread the top of each cake evenly with the glacé icing. Position five mini marshmallow halves for petals and a blue dragée in the center, before the icing has set. Half-fill a small piping bag (without a tip) with royal icing, pipe the stems on the cakes after the icing has set.

glamour masksColor butter cream blue. Spread the top of each cake evenly with the butter cream. Make a mask shape on each cake using silver and blue dragées in a single layer. Push each dragée gently into the butter cream. Use sticks cut from lollipops for the handles of the masks. Use small pieces of ribbon and sugar flowers to cover and decorate the top of the handles.

dragonflySpread the top of each cake with a thick layer of chocolate butter cream. Make the dragonfly bodies using about four white chocolate chips each. Cut chocolate nonpareils into quarters, position two quarters on each cake for wings. Use pieces of shredded coconut for antennae.

mochafliesSpread the top of each cake evenly with mocha butter cream. Cut thin strips, about 1½ inches long, from licorice strips, position on cakes to make bodies and antennae of mochaflies. Cut milk- and dark-chocolate-coated coffee beans in half crosswise, position, cut-side up, for wings.

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decorationsSimple, witty, unique–it’s the decoration that transforms a frosted cupcake into a show stopper. We used chocolates and candies in all shapes and sizes, sugared flowers, candles, patterned powder and colored paper cases, to create our individual little cakes.

1 Sugared almonds 2 Mini mints 3 Pastilles 4 Jujubes 5 Jelly fruit slices 6 Small candied pillows 7 Standard paper cases8 Red lip jellies9 Lifesavers10 Skittles11 Small jelly beans12 SweeTarts

13 Candy Corn14 Strawberry Sour Strap15 Soft fruit sticks16 Pearl candles17 Wedding cakes candles18 Dried rose buds19 Jelly worms20 Cappuccino stencils21 Tic Tacs22 Yellow writing icing23 Maraschino cherries24 Various sugar flowers

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37 Iced chocolate truffles38 Ferrero Roche white

chocolate truffles39 Sixlets40 Cake sparkles41 Edible glitter42 Mint Chocolate Drops43 Malt balls44 Mini M&M’s45 Eskimo Snowball46 Raspberry & vanilla

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coated coffee beans49 Smarties50 Junior Mints51 Rainbow Chips52 Mini marshmallows 53 Toasted coconut

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chocolate melts60 Chick-O-Stick61 Chocolate easter eggs62 Chocolate mint sticks63 Lindt chocolate squares 64 Chocolate nonpareils

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