This post will be more like an instructional post rather than a recipe. You can choose any frosting, cake, or filling candy you like. You can even choose the size. I went with an 8-inch round chocolate cake and buttercream frosting beneath all the candy delight. With the leftover batter, I made cupcakes :) Because it's all covered, you can go with WHATEVER flavor your heart desires. Take a look at that bath of glorious chocolate candy. Yum, yum. And you know what, this is the perfect treat to utilize some of those trick-or-treating M&Ms and Kit-Kats!
For a printable "recipe", click here.
Kit-Kat Candy Cake
Ingredients:
- two 8-inch round cakes
- frosting (see recipe here)
- 1 1/2 c. M&Ms
- Kit-Kats
- ribbon
Instructions:
- Bake your favorite cake and frost around and in the middle of the two layers. Don't worry about how it looks - it will be covered with candy.
- Unwrap the Kit-Kats and place them onto the frosted cake, building a little chocolate fence around it.
- Let top icing harden, and the pour the M&M candies into the middle and evenly spread them out.
- Tie the clean ribbon into a bow on the outside of the cake.
- Enjoy...OR...give away as an adorable edible gift.
This cake couldn't be easier and the result is a BEAUTIFUL presentation of chocolatey goodness. Unfortunately, I was unable to go to the auction and see how much the dessert (and the Cookies and Cream Cupcakes) brought it for the Young Women's Girls Camp, but I can assure you that it got sold and was probably a hit.
The fun thing about this dessert is that you can adapt it to any season or holiday - red, white, and blue M&Ms with a patriotic ribbon for Independence Day; Reeses Pieces with an Autumn ribbon for Halloween/Thanksgiving; Red M&Ms and a red ribbon for Christmas. The list goes on. Go ahead and try it out. Let me know what you think!
