Snickers Candy Bar Cake
Submitted by malissa
A from-scratch layer cake with 16 melted Snickers bars and peanut butter folded into a fluffy buttermilk batter. Topped with whipped cream for the ultimate candy bar cake.
YIELD
1 cakePREP
20 minCOOK
40 minREADY
60 minSixteen Snickers bars walk into a double boiler and come out as the richest cake batter you’ve ever tasted.
The melted candy bar and peanut butter mixture gets folded into a creamed butter-sugar-egg base, lightened with buttermilk and lifted sky-high by stiffly beaten egg whites.
The result is a cake that’s tender, fudgy, studded with bits of caramel and nougat, and absolutely massive, baked in two 9-inch square pans.
Serve it with a generous mound of sweetened whipped cream and watch grown adults fight over the last slice.
Chef Tips
- Cool the melted Snickers mixture completely before adding it to the batter. Hot candy will scramble the egg yolks.
- Fold the beaten egg whites in gently. They’re what gives this dense cake its lift. Rough mixing deflates them.
- Use square pans, not round. The recipe is calibrated for 9-inch square pans, and round pans will give you different bake times and thickness.
- Check at 45 minutes. Ovens vary, and overbaking dries out the caramel pockets that make this cake special.
Ingredients
Directions
Combine, in the top of a double boiler, the cut-up Snickers bars, water, and peanut butter; heat and stir until well melted and blended.
COOL. Mix together the flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In a large bowl, cream butter thoroughly; gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy. Beat in 4 unbeaten egg yolks and add vanilla; beat in the cooled candy bar mix, mixing until smooth and adding ¼ cup buttermilk. Stir in the flour mix alternately with the remaining 1 cup buttermilk; mix only until blended. Gently fold in 4 stiffly beaten egg whites. Divide batter evenly between 2 greased and floured 9 inch SQUARE pans and bake in preheated 350~F oven for 45 ~ 55 minutes. Cool in pans on rack for 5 minutes, turn out, and finish cooling on rack. Serve with sweetened whipped cream.
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