When I saw a picture of this cake, I just KNEW I had to make it for someone! Lucky for me, R’s birthday is in a couple of days, but we had a combined party for him, H, and my niece yesterday. I showed him a picture of the cake and he loved it!
First you are going to start with your favorite kind of cake. We wanted an extra chocolate-y cake, so we used devil’s food cake. I used 9″ pans and two cake mixes. After baking, I let the cakes cool completely (over night) and then frosted with a crumb coat. Not too much, but enough to make sure the candy would stay on!
Next, Jenn helped me by separating all of the M&M’s by color!
Then we broke out the Kit Kat bars. I used about 3.5 king size packs (9.5 regular size packs). Break them up so you can place them on the cake.
Now start placing your Kit Kat bars side by side. Now remember, I used two 9″ cakes, leveled and stacked. The kit kats reached almost to the top of the stacked cakes.
Now start placing your M&M’s. You can do any color scheme you want. We noticed that there seemed to be more green, blue and orange M&M’s in the bag than the other colors. So we started with those. 🙂
To cover the space between the Kit Kats and the M&M’s, I used some of the left over chocolate frosting and a star tip to make a cute border around the top and bottom of the cake. Finish off with a matching ribbon and candles and there you have it!
The happy, almost 9 year old and his Candy Cake! He was SOOOO sweet about it! He kept coming up to me all night saying “I just can’t stop smiling and telling you thank you for my cake!” What a sweet boy!
This cake was very simple, but slightly time consuming because of placing the candy. It was a HUGE hit and tasted delicious!
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Very cool cake! Happy birthday R!
Thank you Kim!!
Stunning looking cake! No wonder he looks so happy 🙂
Thank you Winnie!
Thanks for linking up to Mushki Loves! I Love it! Thank you for sharing! I’m featuring this on my facebook page!
Loves,
Kirsten
Thank you Kirsten!! I really appreciate that!
Fabulous cake – certainly worth all that effort! And I love your cool curly candles too!
Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit!
Hope you have a great week!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
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Thank you Jill!
This looks amazing! I want to lick my computer screen. Ha Ha. Great job! It’s so pretty. I bet it tastes even better!
Thanks Jen! It was really good! Very chocolatey!
this candy cake is AMAZING! you did a GREAT job, so glad you shared it.
Thank you Trish! It was really fun and easy to make!
Featured you!
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Thank you for the feature Jaime!! 🙂
That has to taste absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas!
Thanks for sharing you recipe at What’s In The Gunny Sack! I wanted to let you know that I featured your recipe today!
I love this. It’s absolutely beautiful, colorful, and oh so cheerful! I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t adore having a cake like that on their birthday!
You can also go to the Jelly Belly Factory or any place that sells candy in bulk and get the colored candies pre sorted. Death by chocolate! What a way to go!
Lori in Wisconsin
I love this idea. I’m thinking of trying it in a smaller version – still 2 layers high – but smaller around. That would be cute, too!!
Thank you so much everyone!! 🙂
I love it. I made one for my son’s first birthday a month ago and it was a big hit!
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I pinned your beautiful cake so it will be ‘near me’ when I need it. Found only one problem in doing it. I wanted to use the picture of “R” instead of the actual cake. What a priceless picture!!! Makes me miss my grandkids so very much…. I’d sign this but don’t know how, so had to go with Anonymous.
Oh my goodness! Thank you so much! He really loved it so much and was just so sweet about it. 🙂 Thank you for your kind comment, I really do appreciate it!
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