Lumberjack Kit Kat Cake Part 1
 
 
Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus extra for pans
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup buttermilk
  • 3/4 cup warm water
  • 3 tablespoons safflower oil
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 8 packages of skor bars, coarsley chopped
  • 8-10 packages of kit kat bars, each bar broken into four pieces
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Butter two 8-inch round cake pans, trace and cut out two 8" waxed paper circles and press into the bottom of the cake pans. Wax the bottoms again. Sprinkle some extra cocoa powder and pick up each tin, tipping and tapping the pan until the bottom and sides are coated with cocoa powder.
  3. Sift into a large mixing bowl, fitted with a paddle attachment, the 3/4 cup cocoa powder, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
  4. Beat on low speed until just blended. With the mixer on slow, add the eggs, buttermilk, water, oil, and vanilla, beating after each addition. Beat on medium speed until smooth, for about 3 minutes.
  5. Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared pans. Pick up and gently drop each pan to allow air bubbles to rise and pop.
  6. Bake for about 30 - 35 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into the middle of each pan comes out clean. Let the cakes cool for 15 minutes then invert and gently take the cakes out of the pans. Lay them down, faceup, on a wire rack and allow them to cool completely.
  7. Spread chocolate frosting onto top of 1 inverted cooled layer. Sprinkle coarsley chopped skor bar over top. Top with remaining layer then frost top and sides with remaining frosting.
  8. Gently press the KitKat pieces around the sides of the cake, leaving a small space between each. Set aside any extra KitKat pieces or eat them:)
  9. Sprinkle the remaining Skor bar pieces over the top of the cake, inside the KitKat bars.
Recipe by Just a Smidgen at https://justasmidgen.com/2013/10/16/lumberjack-kit-kat-cake/