Romy's Baking and Cake Decorating

Chocolate Cake with Smarties Recently a friend lost her grandma and was very sad about it. In a casual conversation I said we should make a dinner featuring some of her grandma's dishes and my friend mentioned that they had a tradition of making a cake and decorating it with Smarties. I thought that was a great idea! A few months later we were organizing a dinner among friends and I decided to make her a Chocolate Cake  decorated with Smarties in memory of her grandmother.  European Smarties are different from American Smarties which are a sour candy.  The European ones are like pastel-colored M & Ms. I was surprised to be able to find them in a local specialty shop! They were expensive, and since it's November all they had was a Christmas variety in red and green.  Later on I saw some candy at Trader Joe's that looked exactly like the Euro Smarties in all the colors, unfortunately too late for this cake but I plan to try them for future reference! I wanted to m...