Hi! was going to make my best friend a candy "barrel" cake. you know the ones w/ the kit kats on the outside. thought i'd make a 10in double layer for work. is there a trick to it? or just bake, fill, frost and stick the kit kats to the outside and top w/ the candies???? looks that easy, just wondering! THANKS!
ruby
That's exactly what I plan to do, and then tie a ribbon around to hold the KitKats in place. It'll be great! 
Yup, that's all there's to it! Wrap the ribbon around before you put the candies on top though, that will help keep the kit kats in place. Also, The kit-kats are only about 4 1/4" tall, so you have to trim down your cake a bit (if you usually make 4"tall cakes) I made my cakes to be 3.5" tall.... 
These are fun/easy cakes to make!
thanks ladies! i figured it was that easy but just wanted to be sure! 
ruby
ok, ya'll have sparked my curiousity. what is a candy barrell cake??? any pics of what one looks like???
here's Sarsi's cute barrel cake!!!
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1261669
he he he... I'm flattered you'd show mine
I think even the smaller ones are cuter! I also have a 4" one in my photos, and that was soooo cute! LOL... Those big ones sure do take a lot of kit-kats!!
I bet! if i make a 10in round, how many do you think it would take???
Well, mine was an 8 inch... I'm going to have to guess here... but I went to Walmart and bought the HUGE packs of them...
kit kats come in packs of 4..regular size candy bars. The packs at walmart have 4 of these in them...
I bought 2 big packs, and then had to run and get 3 regular sized ones from the gas station..cuz I ran out...
so I guess that means I used 11 regular sized packs? I would say you'd want to get at least 2 extra packs for the 10" cake...
Don't forget I'm just guessing here...I could be wrong, but I think I'm pretty close! LOL
Thanks Sarsi!!! and you know what? if i buy extras... they won't go to waste... believe me! 
lol
Thats so funny I saw this thread... Sarsi, I was just looking at your candy cakes to make for a friend of mine. I swear, I have never seen someone eat so much candy and only weigh like 100 pounds! It would be perfect for her.
Thanks for the inspiration! And I am curious about the previous question... if you take the ribbon off, surely the kitkats wouldnt fall off if they are stuck to the BC?
Twix maybe? That would take a lot of them though!
Sarsi- Love your cakes! I actually have your cupcakes saved in my favorites. I envy your chocolate wrapped raspberry cake. Decadant!
i did a cake like this but used rolled cookies instead of kitkats... there's a picture of it in my images.
Awe, thanks!!! I have lots of fun, but everything I know I learned from CC!! OH YEAH!!
LOLWhat cupcakes? The froggies??? They did turn out cute! I almost gave up on them because they weren't working out right, but I'm so happy I stuck with it!!
All of you're cupcakes 
. Does that make me a fan or fanatic? Also love the eyeball cake. My MIL is completely freaked out by eyeballs, if she ever makes me mad she may be getting that one 
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*sorry to hijack the thread
i loved using the rolled cookies as my edge, however it was very time consuming because my cookies were very long so i had to slowly cut each one down to size in hopes not to crack them!! and then i got a reall cute ribbon that reminded me of chocolate and PB and ran it across the bottom for decoration and attached it with a dab of buttercream
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