This Halloween-themed post and Halloween Kit Kat Cake recipe is sponsored by Global Influence with product provided by Hershey’s, but all thoughts and recipe creations are my own work.
Have you ever heard of a Kit Kat Cake before? They are quite popular on Pinterest! I even made our own Easter Kit Kat Cake. And it turned out so amazing, so when Hershey’s sent me a box full of goodies; including a package of orange white chocolate Kit Kats, I knew instantly how to turn it all into a super fun Halloween Kit Kat cake!
Halloween Kit Cake Cake
What you will need:
- One 9″ round cake. This can be made from scratch or box cake. Any flavor. I adore a Devil’s Food Cake Recipe. Since most recipes make two 9″ round cake, you can make two and either decorate one yourself and let the kids do the other, or you keep one and send the other cake to a beloved neighbor. Trust me, they will love you for it. Or you can make the rest of the batter into cupcakes and make these super easy Witch Hat Cupcakes to go along with your Halloween Kit Kat Cake. Try the Pumpkin Spice Kisses for some variety.
- A bag of Halloween orange White chocolate Kit Kats individually wrapped
- Pretzel sticks
- Rolos or Mini Reese’s peanut butter cups
- Reese’s Pieces
- two Jolly Rancher Caramel Apple suckers
- Halloween Sprinkles
- Walton’s Candy Gravestones
- Gummy monsters (or you can have marshmallow ghosts or whatever you can find)
- Ribbon
- Cream Cheese Frosting
After you bake your cake and allow it to cool thoroughly it is time to begin decorating. You can even place the cake into the freezer for 15 minutes to help with the ease of frosting the cake and not have as many cake crumbs in the frosting as you spread it around.
Set a portion of your frosting aside for the purple trimming. Color the rest of the frosting a deep green or any color you prefer. Then frost the cake.
Line the Kit Kat candy around the cake, leaving the final space open. This is where we will create the Reese’s path. You can close it off if you want, but I like the look of it open as if the Reese’s pieces are spilling out. Once you have all the Kit Kat candy around the cake, use the ribbon and tie it around the cake to keep the Kit Kat in place.
Then start decorating. I added two Jolly Rancher Caramel Apple suckers together on the left as trees. Then made Witch Broomsticks by breaking stick pretzels in half. Then place them in the mini Reese’s upside down or the Rolo upside down.
Add in a few Candy Gravestones and some spooky gummy characters.
Then I started the path 3/4 into the cake and did three Reese’s Candy pieces across, alternating the colors for the pathway pattern. Once I reach the opening where I left off the Kit Kat I added a few Reese’s pieces to look as though the path was falling off the cake.
Then Sprinkle the cake with any Halloween sprinkles you have. I especially like the little bone sprinkles that came with the Candy Graveyards.
I added in two regular Kit Kat Chocolate pieces as a sort of “tee-pee” affect in the back, but that’s optional.
Remember the frosting we set aside? I colored mine deep violet and pipped it out around the edge on the inside of the cake.
And finally I scattered more Reese’s Pieces candies around the outside of the cake on the table for decoration.
Remember the 2nd 9″ round cake? With that one, I was out of Kit Kat candies, so I used the Pumpkin shaped York Patties in place of the Kit Kats and made a slightly different graveyard scene in the middle of that cake. Then we gave it to our neighbor. I forgot to snap a picture of it before we took it over, but it turned out awesome too! And they loved it and so did their kids!
This has been one of the most enjoyable cakes to decorate. The kids hung on pins and needles waiting for me to finish and they could not stop talking about how awesome it was! And they couldn’t wait to cut into the cake!
Our Halloween Kit Kat Cake is an excellent option for baking with kids, and the perfect center piece to any upcoming Halloween party!
Visit CelebrateWithHerhseys.com for more recipes, crafts, and other fun Halloween ideas.
As always, if you enjoy our Halloween Kit Kat Cake, don’t forget to Pin it and share it with your friends and family with a link back to us so they can see how to make it too.
How would you decorate our Halloween Kit Kat Cake?
Where would you display your Halloween Kit Kat Cake?
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Kristin Wheeler (@MamaLuvsBooks)
This is AMAZING! Pinned it!
Amber Edwards
Thanks Kristin! It was definitely a lot of fun to make. 🙂
Rosey
You did an amazing job, it ‘s gorgeous (and looks yummy too!)!
Robin (Masshole Mommy)
That is incredibly cute and very creative of you. I seriously don’t know if I would have the patience to make one myself, but I would certainly pay for someone else to do it for me LOL. My boys would LOVE something like that!!
Amber Edwards
Would it surprise you that the “decorating” part of this cake only took like 5-10 minutes!? The part that took the longest was simply baking and letting the cake cool down.
Terry (My Journey With Candida)
I didn’t know they made orange colored Kit Kats, how festive for Halloween. Love that cake!!
Theresa
Yum! How cute is this!? Almost too cute to eat, but in the end, my sweet tooth would beat out the visual and devour that Kit Kat Cake!
Sarah Bailey
Oh wow that is one amazing cake! It’s a work of art all of its own I wouldn’t want to cut into it x
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I love the cake. I have seen it for other things and I love the orange so much better.
Michele
I love that cake!! It is simply adorable an looks more then good enough to eat.
Cinny
Wow, it’s gorgeous…almost too cute to eat!
Annemarie
OMG That cake is just too creative. I have see a lot of Halloween cakes, cupcakes etc. but this wins by a mile. I love it!
Growing Up Madison
OMGoodness that is amazing. I’m not creative like that but I like seeing stuff like this that I know I can’t make. Pinning. 🙂
Pam
This looks really sweet and delicious. It is so creative and what kid would not love to have this in their home. Orange Kit Kats…who knew!
Amanda
This is so creative, I love how you use candy to make it look so real.
Liz @ A Nut in a Nutshell
Amber that is a crazy awesome cake. You put so many interesting elements and details into it. I’d probably keep it on the table as a centerpiece so I could see it all the time! 🙂
Cynthia L
This is too cute and a great sugar overload! I love the cake and it has all of my favorites in it.
Tess
I love this! So much detail in this cake and must have taken a long time to make.
Tough Cookie Mommy
What a beautiful cake for Halloween. I love the colors but I especially love that it contains some of my favorite ingredients. Kit Kat is definitely at the top of the favorite candy list.
Le-an Lacaba
I could just imagine my dentist scolding me. This looks too yummy and very enticing to eat!
seema
how cute & creative :)
amanda
beautiful cake! i love what you did and l think you did a great job.
Ellen Christian
That is just so creative.Wow great job!
Kristen @ kristenione
This is so cool! Looks way too complicated for me! But what a showstopper! Love it!
Michal
Wow! that is very beautiful!
Kelly Hutchinson
I love how cute and easy this recipe is. My kids would love this for Halloween!
Monica @HappyandBlessedHome.com
As cute as a graveyard can be! Featuring at Family Fun Friday this week in my round-up of 20 Sometimes Spooky and Always Sweet Halloween Recipes for Kids: https://www.happyandblessedhome.com/20-sometimes-spooky-always-sweet-halloween-recipes-for-kids/
Thanks for sharing!
Monica