Candyland was one of my favourite games to play as a kid!  We didn’t have it at home, but I remember playing it at lots of friends’ houses and at school.  I’ve made sure that each classroom I’ve taught in has had this game because of my fond memories of it!  The game itself is super simple- counting to two, limited reading required (basic image recognition), it requires mostly just colour recognition and learning to wait your turn.

There are quite a few versions of the Candyland game board, in fact, the first edition came out in 1949.  According to Wikipedia, there are 22 different versions!  I believe the version that I base the cake on is the 2010 version of the Candyland game board.  The fact that it has Gloppy the Chocolate Monster is what makes me think that.  Apparently, prior to 2010, Gloppy was the “Molasses Monster”.

I had to do a lot of candy ordering on Amazon to get all of the candy components to this cake.  If you are making it at home, you can make do with what you’ve got on hand, or you can order the candy like I ended up having to.  I wanted to make sure that each area was as perfect as it could be, so I went to the extra effort of ordering . . . I even sent my mom looking for peanut marshmallows when she was on vacation with my brother in Minnesota!

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