American Baker in Germany

If you've never heard of Karneval, it's a festival celebrated in many countries, including Germany, where everyone dresses up in funny costumes and attends a huge parade with loud, festive music where the people in the parade throw candy at the crowd. Every year we get a lot of candy and this year was no exception. I thought that this was the perfect opportunity to make a Candyland cake. We've been talking about it for ages, so the time was ripe. First off, legal blah blah: This post was neither sponsored nor affiliated with Hasbro. Design used with permission. I started out by baking one recipe of my vanilla cake which I turned into funfetti cake and baked in a ten inch square cake pan. Then I layered it into two layers, which I then laid on a baking sheet next to each other. I even trimmed off a strip of cake from both of them so they would fit flush against each other. Then I frosted the cake with vanilla American buttercream. I couldn't chill it because the cake...