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This Celebration KitKat Cake Tutorial is super easy, but looks SO cool!
Customize this cake for any occasion, simply by changing out the color of the candies on the top! Birthday Cake? Great! Choose the birthday person’s favorite color and have at it. Baby Shower? Pastel candies look so sweet!
I LOVED making this birthday kit kat cake, not because it is super complicated, or difficult at ALL, but because I got this beauty… quickly, and easily. I would say this took me about 15 minutes to do.
I totally cheat and use a store-bought cake and you can too! You CAN, of course, make one from scratch (I recommend this cake recipe: Classic Chocolate Cake), make one using a cake mix. (be sure to cool completely at room temperature on a wire rack before frosting and decorating).
Cake Ideas
- So easy to customize for baby showers (pinks and/or blues)
- This cake is awesome for birthdays (rainbow!)
- Delicious for Thanksgiving (brown, green, beige and orange)
- Perfect for game days (your team colors!)
- Vanilla buttercream, caramel buttercream, strawberry buttercream and my favorite – chocolate buttercream all do well in this layer cake!
The simple process:
- After baking, cooling and buttercream frosting your cake (chocolate frosted is SO good), break the kit kat bars but keep the pieces in order (makes fitting them together on the cake more even). You can do 2s or singles, it won’t matter.
- Fit them to the sides of the cake, they’ll stick to the frosting easily.
- Tie with a ribbon to keep it all together.
- Fill the top by adding candies of your choice to the top of the cake.
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Celebration Kit Kat Cake
Suggested Equipment
Ingredients
- 5 packages kitkat chocolate bars
- 1 9inch round, frosted cake
- Ribbon of your choice
- 1 cup colored candies
Instructions
- Break the kitkats, but keep the pieces in order (makes fitting them together on the cake more even). You can do 2s or singles, it won’t matter.
- Fit the kitkats to the outside of the cake, they’ll stick to the frosting easily.
- Tie with a ribbon, and add a bow.
- Fill the top with your choice candies.
- Devour.
nutrition facts
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Ashley - Forking Up says
I used to LOVE Sixlets as a kid. I would be all over this cake. I’ve seen similar styles before, but I feel like mine would come out way messier, hah…
Manila Spoon says
I have seen this kitkat cake all over but have never dared to make it as I thought it would be too complicated and glad to know it’s not!! Looks so festive and celebratory indeed!!
Marisa Franca @ All Our Way says
How adorable!! It’s a fantastic idea and the Kit Kats around the cake makes it so special. I can really picture this as a great Halloween dessert. I’m thinking of other holidays and how to decorate.
Andrea The Petite Cook says
I absolutely love your gorgeous cake! Cant believe it’s so easy to make, well done!
Deepika says
This cake looks amazing. Saving this one for my little one’s next birthday. She will love it.
Joanna @ Everyday Made Fresh says
Oh my goodness, this cake looks amazing!! I love how easy this is to make, and those sprinkles are so fun!
Kaitie says
What a fantastic cake! I love that you have your little man helping out as well! My kids would go bananas over this!! There are just so many ways to decorate it, but I will admit I love the blue/yellow/white colour scheme you have going on. And I agree – it’s definitely a must to have your kids taste test as you go along 😉
Veena Azmanov says
Oh this is one of those all time favorite KIT KAT Cakes. It’s amazing how impressive they look. My kids favorite. This is awesome.
Gloria @ Homemade & Yummy says
OMG this is AWESOME. This would make the BEST birthday cake ever!! I will have to give this a try next time I need to make a great cake to celebrate with.
Helenr says
Wow so many sweets! Your cake is very vibrant and will for sure catch attention.
valmg @ From Val's Kitchen says
That cake looks terrific! I love how simply you can customize it to suit a particular occasion by changing which candies you put in there. Only one proble, I love Kit Kats so I’d need to buy twice as many, I work on the one for the dish one for the chef motto.
Margaret Maggie Porter says
Ive got to try this with my grandson. He would love to make it.
Kate says
This cake totally reminds me of Katie – do you remember her/her blog from waaaaaaay back in the day? I wonder what ever happened to her.
Kylee says
She’s still around…
Nancy says
What a cute cake! I like that their candies come in so many pretty colors so you can customize the party treats!
Natalie J Vandenberghe says
I love KitKat and your candy cake sounds and looks delicious!