A few years ago it was someone’s birthday at work. They brought in a cake to share and invited me to have a piece. I only ate one piece, but I secretly wished I could take the whole thing home with me. It was that good.
I came right home, found the recipe online, and I’ve been making the cake ever since. I recently made one for Granny’s birthday and thought I’d share the recipe with you.
It’s the kind of recipe I love: it’s super easy, tastes amazing, and looks impressive, you know like you slaved all day to make it.
I’ve heard the cake called a few different things, but I’m calling it the Chocolate Candy Bar Cake.
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 chocolate cake mix (preferably swiss chocolate or milk chocolate)
- 1 box of instant vanilla pudding
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup oil
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 8oz. pack cream cheese
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 12oz. cool whip
- 3 Hershey bars (chopped or grated)
Add all the cake ingredients into a bowl and mix well; pour batter into 3 greased and floured 9 inch round cake pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 20-25 minutes or till done.
When I first started making this cake I only used two 9 inch cake pans and it still turned out great. Using 3 layers allows you to use more icing and make a more dramatic cake especially once you slice it and see the different layers.
Once cake rounds are done allow to cool slightly and remove from pans to cool completely.
While cakes are cooling make the frosting by mixing cream cheese and xxx sugar well.
Add cool whip to bowl and mix until thoroughly combined.
Chop or grate candy bars. I didn’t have any candy bars on hand for Granny’s cake, but I did have a giant Hershey’s Kiss left over from Valentines and it worked just as well.
Add chocolate to frosting and mix well.
Frost cake. Slice. Pour glass of milk. Eat.
Tipper
19 Comments
Wanda Devers
February 3, 2015 at 9:43 amIt sounds yummy!
RB
March 14, 2013 at 9:10 pmSounds yummy good!!!
God bless.
RB
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Bradley
March 12, 2013 at 7:00 pmTipper,
We made one of those cakes; it was good! You know, I bet you could use just about any candy bar. Well, maybe not but wonder what Snickers would be like.
Kimberly Burnette
March 12, 2013 at 5:24 pmThis cake looks like it would be fabulous! Since today is my birthday, I think that it was meant to be that I should make a cake like this!
Ken
March 12, 2013 at 3:06 pmTipper,
Wow! That cake looks just right.
Hey Tip…I got a birthday coming
up late next month.
If it’s sunny tomorrow, I’m going
to dig some more taters. I think
I’m ready for a dry spell…Ken
Quinn
March 12, 2013 at 3:04 pmThat looks delicious! I mix everything by hand, so I’m not sure I could get the same degree of perfection. Probably worth a try, though!
Tom
March 12, 2013 at 2:18 pmYUM!!Thanks for sharing. This cake looks delicious and we’ll be adding this recipe to our Blind Pig recipe folder we have created. Nothing like a big piece of cake and a glass of cold milk to make a body happy!
Howland
March 12, 2013 at 1:54 pmNote to self: Do not look at pictures of this cake or its ingredients before testing for blood sugar content…
Glynda P. Chambers
March 12, 2013 at 11:54 amThanks Tipper, Can’t wait to make this one. It looks yummy! Thanks so much for sharing it
with us.
Kerry in GA
March 12, 2013 at 11:45 amThis is a very good cake. I make it for my daddy-in-law for his birthday about every year.
dolores
March 12, 2013 at 10:55 amOh! You have made my mouth salivate and the power of suggestion, whether real or imaginary, has made want to get to the store and bake one of these. It looks scrumptious. Thanks for the recipe. I must run to the store right now. Happy Birthday to Granny!
Lonnie L. Dockery
March 12, 2013 at 10:51 amI’ll save that one–might try it after I finish my next “Mary Jo’s Apple Pie”. I just dug that recipe out this morning!
B. ruth
March 12, 2013 at 9:47 amTipper,
I would have to call that an anti-depression cake…I love anything with cream cheese icing, I could eat anything with cream cheese icing even…uhhh, never mind.
Since the sun is shining here today, I will have to wait until it is gloomy and rainy. One of those days when I am “down-in-the-dumps”, “got the blues”, or at least close to my birthday. Let me look at the calender…well, my birthday is Dec. 3rd, close enough, so I’ll see you later! I’m gone to the store to get the chocolate, mix and cheese…
Thanks Tipper,
sandy
March 12, 2013 at 9:27 amI would love to have Miss Cindy’s pound cake recipe if it is easy enough to commit to memory. I don’t do well with complicated.
Ron Banks
March 12, 2013 at 8:29 amI didn’t get my morning email from the Blind Pig today but I found the website for my my morning Blind Pig fix! That cake looks delicious. I am a sucker for chocolate cake and I’m going to give the recipe to my wife and hopefully get to try some of that.
kat
March 12, 2013 at 8:12 amCan just taste it now! Have made the cake recipe before but not with the one for the icing. Will have to give it a try soon. Can never go wrong with chocolate.
Miss Cindy
March 12, 2013 at 7:34 amThat looks delicious! The cake part is very similar to the cake I use to make German Chocolate cake. It’s also an easy recipe that I got from my cousin when I was a teenager. I bet I’ve made hundreds of that cake though not recently.
It’s funny how you get a recipe and it just fits you so you keep it and use it over and over.
I also had a pound cake recipe that I probably made at least a hundred of. I made it so much I didn’t need to look at the recipe. It was and still is permanently in my brain.
Ed Ammons
March 12, 2013 at 7:13 amYou should call your cake “The Giant Birthday Kiss Cake!”
Tim Mc
March 12, 2013 at 7:13 amWow,, looks delicious, I think I gained 5lbs, just looking at it…