What can you do with $10 of drugstore candy? You could eat it straight from the bags, of course, but you could also expertly arrange all of it into floral patterns on a tall frosted cake.

If the thought of decorating a cake not just with frosting but with foamcore boards, Styrofoam wedges and dowels makes you want to run to the nearest bakery, Colette Peters’ “Cakes to Dream On ...

I love cake decorating but it is ... is more akin to sprinkles in that it doesn’t have the height that candy bars can bring, but nuts can add some low-key pizzazz to your cake.