Kit-Kat Candy Cake

October is my month of candy! I love the M&Ms, the chocolates, and even the candy corns and candy pumpkins. October just screams "CANDY" to me. This cake was made for a ward dessert auction that the YW put on. I am definitely not the best cake decorator, but I signed up to bring a cake anyway. Hmmm, not too smart. But then I remembered that I had pinned a few pictures of this Kit Kat cakes and decided to create my own! After further review, I dub it an adorable success.

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:

1. 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.
2. Unwrap the Kit-Kats and place them onto the frosted cake, building a little chocolate fence around it. 
3. Let top icing harden, and the pour the M&M candies into the middle and evenly spread them out.
4. Tie the clean ribbon into a bow on the outside of the cake. 
5. 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!