Living on Cloud Nine: M & M's

Our son’s girlfriend had a birthday last month and she is

crazy about Kit Kat’s! So, I was bound and determined to make her a Kit Kat cake and she was absolutely tickled with it! The cake is so fun to make and even more fun for the recipient to cut. Just put it on a cookie sheet in case the M&Ms fall like they did when I was trying to assemble this cake. Let’s just say don’t try and film the cake for social media while putting on the Kit Kat bars or you might have M&Ms all over the place, LOL!

Her favorite cake is yellow with chocolate frosting, but you could do any flavor cake. The chocolate buttercream frosting just looks nice with the Kit Kats but of course you could change up frostings too.

I forgot to add the cocoa powder in the photo, LOL

Ingredients

CAKE:

• 1 box chocolate or yellow cake mix of choice, mixed according to package directions

• Keep in mind to only fill each of your two round pans 2/3 the amount that you normally fill them as you don’t want the cake too high to not have a pocket for the M&Ms in the Kit Kats. Make a few cupcakes with the leftover batter, mine made four cupcakes in addition to the two round cakes.

CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM FROSTING:

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter, at room temperature

• 4 ounces (1/2 block) cream cheese, at room temperature

• 2 cups powdered sugar, sifted

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1/2 cup cocoa powder

DECORATION

• 36-44 Kit Kat candy bar sticks (9-11 bars)

• 24-36 ounces M&M’s

• Ribbon

BLUE TOP HERE // Similar EARRINGS HERE

Her favorite color is yellow and thus the yellow ribbon. You could do about any ribbon, and it is optional but trust me when I tell you it really helps hold the cake together and it looks so pretty. LOVE her happy smile when she saw it!