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Kit Kat and M&M Birthday Cake

02 Sunday Aug 2015

Posted by Laurie in Cakes

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chocolate buttercream frosting, chocolate mousse filling, double chocolate cake, Kit-Kat, m+m, Sour cream vanilla cake

So, my 12-year-old loves Kit Kat candy bars and M&Ms (who doesn’t?!)….this was his cake last year (finally getting around to posting it).  We somehow managed to only take a few pics, but thought I’d share.

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It’s an 8″ 3-layer chocolate/vanilla/chocolate cake with milk chocolate buttercream and chocolate mousse filling into which I folded crushed Kit Kat bars. Yum. There was honestly so much sugar here it made my teeth hurt, but since I don’t let my kids eat candy often, I figured I’d give them this treat just once last year.

After the entire cake was frosted, I simply put Kit Kat bars–separated into sections–around the outside (I think it took about 6 full-sized bars). I then filled the top with M&M candies (at this point, I figured “why not?”!).

I tied it with a ribbon and put a chocolate-pretzel candy border around the bottom.

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Happy 12th birthday, my SWEET boy!!

Candy anyone!?

 

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Candy Lover’s Cupcake

10 Thursday Oct 2013

Posted by Laurie in Cupcakes

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candy bar, candy lovers cupcake, chocolate mousse filling, double chocolate cake, Kit-Kat, vanilla-bean frosting

Okay, so my kids talked me into buying a family-sized bag of Kit-Kat bars the other day….really?  Family-sized?  Who needs that much candy?!  And it’s still 3 weeks until Halloween!

But, of course, in a moment of weakness at the grocery store, I gave in. Zero will-power…none at all, ZIP!  Anyway, after looking at the bars staring at me in the face every time I opened the cupboard, I decided to make cupcakes out of them!

A simple but perfect combo: Double chocolate cake filled with chocolate mousse mixed with crushed candy pieces, creamy vanilla buttercream and Kit-Kat bars on top.  Any good candy would work here…Reese’s cups, Twix Bars, Snickers, malted milk balls…pick your favorite.   MMMM, sweet, smooth, crunchy, cakey.  Candy and cake–life is good!  (I think I finally know what to do with all of that left-over good Halloween candy :0)

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Life is crazy and I love to bake. I'm a wife, mother of 3 nutty kids, and an admitted sugar-holic. Ten years ago I left my job as a senior consulting engineer in Salt Lake City, UT, to get out of the rat race and raise kids. We up and moved to a quiet, small town in NE Ohio to be near family and bought a 180-yr-old historic home, always a dream of mine. Along the way, I discovered my joy of baking, which allows both my engineering side and my oft-suppressed creative side to emerge. It began with the desire to bake birthday cakes for my kids (I hated to buy them) and has blossomed into a cupcake-baking business for a local bakery. Over the years, many people have asked if I take orders. So, here they are. Check out the site, we'll be adding new cupcake flavors weekly as well as the occasional cake. And in case you're wondering about the name, it's an homage to the big, old gray barn in my back yard. What a bonus, it came with the house! Put on a smile and BAKE!

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