• Follow this recipe to make Royal Icing. You will need meringue powder, powdered sugar and water.
• Put the royal icing in a piping bag with a small basic tip or a plastic sandwich bag and cut a small hole out of one corner.
• Unwrap candies and place the cake board on the table.

Build the first train car

• Place a full-sized Snickers bar down as the base.
  
• Using small dots of royal icing, add 2 peppermint candies on each side of the car near what you have decided is the front of the car. Add 1 more to each side of the rear of the car.
• Use royal icing to attach a fun-sized Snickers bar to the top of the train near the rear.
• Add a gummy fruit slice to the very front of the candy bar.
• Add 4 Werther's Hard Caramels (or use Lifesavers) and glue the flat side to the front of the fun-sized candy bar.
• Add a Lifesaver to the top of the caramels, near the front of the train then top with a Rolo.
• Add on Juju Bee to the front of the caramels.
• Add a gum drop to just behind the Lifesave/Rolo's smokestack.
• Add any miniatures that you may have.
• Add an M&M to the center of each peppermint "wheel".

For the second car

• Use a full-sized Snicker's bar as the base.
  
• Add a peppermint to the front of and back of the train car on each side. (note: only the first car has 2 peppermints near the front).
• Add M&Ms to the center of each "wheel".
• Add any miniatures that you have. Consider adding a small plastic Christmas tree to make it look more festive.

For the third car

• Create the base as noted above with a full-sized Snickers bar and peppermint candies as wheels including the M&Ms.
  
• Lay Tootsie Rolls on the base candy bar to resemble tree logs. Stack them up however you would like them.
• Add any miniatures you may have.

To connect the cars

• Place the cars on the cake board where you want them to sit.
• Use approximately 1" pieces of licorice laces and use Royal icing to link the first car to the second car.
• Do this for as many cars as you have.

Add snow

• Add small drips of Royal Icing to the plastic tree to make it look like fallen snow (optional).
• Sprinkle the whole train with edible glitter flakes.

To make train tracks (optional)

• Use royal icing and black licorice laces to create a track on the cake board.
• Place two long pieces, parallel to each other, as wide as the candy train cars. Cut smaller pieces and run them horizontally between the two long pieces to make the tracks.
• Place train on top of the tracks.