Bye bye Braces!!! When we could finally bid farewell to our teen’s braces a cake was in order. I mean when isn’t a cake in order?! A tasty moment to celebrate and decorate with some of the previously ‘off limit’ candies for brace wearers.

I went with a simple buttermilk vanilla sheet cake as vanilla is her preference in a pretty blue pan, because pretty is my preference. Then I topped it with vanilla buttercream tinted blue for added good measure. And next I thought what better to decorate with than gum and licorice – two “No No’ foods for braces.

So I went about peeling the licorice stands apart and shaping into the letters. I took the white gum (figured it was somewhat tooth like) and fashioned my teeth in the centre of the cake. Using a piece of licorice cut to length I attached it with some black clear gel icing to resemble the hardware.

I definitely made my frosting on the thicker side so it would hold up to the bent licorice (not allowing it to bounce back out of shape) and not letting the gum to sink in. I went for cute rather than perfection as I wanted the cake to be surprise and I only had a couple hours to pull it off. When I twisted the shape for each letter, I would use the somewhat sticky inside to help it adhere to the other pieces or curves of the licorice letters. Then I started in the centre and worked outward with placing the letters to form the words.

This was a fun surprise and very easy and simple to do.

This Bye Bye Braces Cake Required:

Cake of Choice (sheet cake works well) or a Doctored Cake Mix
Thick Butter Cream Icing
Food Colouring (white teeth will not show up well on white icing)
White rectangular or square gum pieces
Peel + Eat Licorices (peeled into individual pieces)
Frosting or gel cookie icing to attach the ‘braces’

More cute and simple cakes?!
An Easy Summer Cake
An Simple Sunflower Cake
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