This cake is for chocolate lovers only. In fact, you should probably be obsessed with chocolate in order to make this cake since every component has chocolate; from the chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream base, to the swirled chocolate wafer sticks wrapped around it, to the chocolate candy chunks on top!
Making this cake is more of an exercise in self control, rather than decorating challenge. It’s “Super Easy” on a scale of “Easy to Difficult”. The self control comes in when you try to refrain from sampling all of the toppings prior to putting them on the cake!
I found most of the chocolates at my local grocery store. The Stikko wafers came from Bulk Barn, but I’ve seen similar products at the grocery store as well. You can be as creative as you want with a design like this. I originally had Smarties (ours are chocolate in Canada) and M&M’s on the cake too, but I felt the colour distracted from the overall chocolaty appearance I was going for. Try mixing in a variety of shades of chocolate, like how I used white, milk and dark.
To make the chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, make sure to follow my tutorial for both of those recipes.
Chocolate Candy Box Cake
Ingredients:
- 2 prepared 9″ x 13″ chocolate cakes, stacked and buttercream covered
- Round wafer sticks (such as Stikko) I used three containers. (Get them here)
- Bite sized Twix, Snickers, Rolo
- Hershey’s Drops- Cookies N Cream
- Lindt Lindor truffles
- Mini chocolate chip cookies
- Hershey’s Hugs
- Cadbury Marvellous Creations Jelly Popping Candy (Get it Here)
Procedure:
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Prepare chocolate cakes, and cover in chocolate buttercream.
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Trim wafer sticks to about 1/2″ longer than the height of the cake, and place the trimmed wafers around the outside of the cake, going all the way around. Secure with additional buttercream if required.
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Using a toothpick, mark and divide the top of cake into eight equal sections.
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Trim additional wafer sticks to cover all of the divide lines.
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Fill each section with a single kind of chocolate candy. Repeat until all sections are filled with your favourite chocolates!
- Keep cake refrigerated and remove from fridge 3-4 hours prior to serving. Cake is best consumed within 2-3 days.
*If you haven’t tried the Cadbury Marvellous Creations Jelly Popping Candy, you must! There are pop rocks, and jelly bean type pieces in the milk chocolate bar. When I first saw this chocolate bar, I bought it because it appeared to have chunks of colour inside, which is what I was looking for for this cake, but then when I actually tried a piece, I was in love! Unfortunately. You have to be a liker of Big Turks, or chocolate covered jube jubes though. I’m not a huge fan of pop rocks, but there’s a pleasant surprise in your mouth when you come in contact with one! I wish this was sponsored. I could have a lifetime of exploding chocolate!
