Candy Covered Chocolate Sheet Cake

Meet our amazing Candy Covered Chocolate Sheet Cake. This soft and tender cake is covered in real chocolate frosting and loads of candy and chocolate. It’s perfect for birthdays, parties and celebrations.

It’s party time  🎉

And I’m bringing the cake. A Candy Covered Chocolate Sheet Cake to be exact, with lashes of chocolate frosting and LOADS of candy, including Snickers, Twix, Maltesers and M&M’s.

If you’re on the hunt for a cake that feeds a crowd, this 👆🏻 is your answer. A giant sour cream chocolate cake that boasts an incredibly light and tender crumb and a boatload of crispy, crunchy candy.

why you will love this recipe

• Expect a soft and tender chocolate cake
• Super creamy chocolate frosting
• Easily customisable with your favourite candy
• Feeds a hungry crowd

I had a major craving for chocolate cake this week, so I decided to go all out with a giant chocolate sheet cake. But this isn’t any chocolate cake, this is a sour cream chocolate cake. Sour cream is my new secret weapon in making truly lovely moist cakes, that just about melt-in-your-mouth.

Add to that plenty of chocolate frosting – made using REAL chocolate rather than cocoa powder – AND all your favourite candy and you have the perfect party cake, am I right?

Of course, you could use whatever candy you like to decorate your cake. But I love the chewiness of the Snickers pieces, the crunch of the Twix biscuit and the pop of colour from all the M&M’s. But you could easily customise this cake to suit any occasion or theme.

I’ve already eaten two big slices of this cake and I just want more. So if you need to feed a crowd or are hosting a party anytime soon, look no further for your celebration or birthday cake. This Candy Covered Chocolate Sheet Cake is a total crowd-pleaser!

I hope you’ve had a great weekend. They go so fast don’t they? I spent most of my weekend in the kitchen. As well as this cake, I’ve also been testing a brownie recipe for the blog. I’ve done 3 tests and I’m still not 100% satisfied with the result but I feel I’m very very close.

In the meantime, this Chocolate Sheet Cake is more than satisfying my chocolate cravings. I’m taking the rest of it to work today because it is dangerous having a giant cake in a house of two! Enjoy friends!

more chocolate cakes to love

• Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
• Chocolate Orange Cake
• Chocolate Mud Cake
• Chocolate Fudge Cake

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Let’s Bake

Candy Covered Chocolate Sheet Cake

Yield Makes 20–24 slices 1x

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5 from 2 reviews

Prep: 60 minutesCook: 35 minutesTotal: 1 hour 35 minutes

Soft and tender chocolate cake covered in chocolate frosting and LOADS of candy.

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Ingredients

Chocolate cake

• 250 grams (1 cup and 1 tablespoon) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 200 grams (1 cup) caster sugar or granulated sugar
• 135 grams (3/4 cup) brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 large eggs, room temperature
• 245 grams (1 and 3/4 cup) plain flour or all purpose flour
• 60 grams (3/4 cup) cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 120 ml (1/2 cup) hot water
• 240 ml (1 cup) sour cream, room temperature

Chocolate frosting

• 115 grams (1/2 cup or 1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 100 grams (2/3 cups) dark chocolate
• 375 grams (3 cups) icing sugar or powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 450 grams (3 cups) assorted chocolate and candy pieces*

Instructions

1. Chocolate cake
   Grease a rectangular cake tin (9 x 13 inch / 23 x 33 cm) and line with baking or parchment paper, ensuring two sides overhang. Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F) standard / 160 C (320 F) fan-forced.
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugars with an electric mixer on medium sped until pale and creamy. Add vanilla and eggs, one at a time, and continue to beat until mixture is combined. Boil the kettle and pour out 1/2 cup water and set aside.
3. In a separate bowl, sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt and lightly whisk. Add the dry ingredients to the wet, along with half of the hot water and gently fold with a spatula. Add the rest of the hot water and continue to mix. Stir through sour cream until the cake mixture is combined and smooth. It will be quite thick – this is fine.
4. Pour chocolate batter into your prepared pan and bake for approximately 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Leave the cake to cool for about 15 minutes before carefully transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
5. Chocolate frosting
   Place butter in a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until pale and creamy. Meanwhile melt the chocolate in a microwave, stirring in between 20 second bursts, until smooth and set aside to cool a little.
6. Add half of the sugar and one tablespoon of milk, and beat on low until the sugar is incorporated. Then, add the remaining sugar and milk, and beat on low until the sugar is incorporated before turning up to medium for another minute or so.
7. Next, add melted chocolate to the buttercream mixture, ensuring the chocolate is still smooth and melted but is not warm. Beat until the chocolate is completely mixed through. Gently cover your cooled cake with chocolate frosting. Then scatter over all your candy pieces right before serving.

Notes

*I used M&M’s, Maltesers, Twix bars and Snickers bars.

Author: Jessica HolmesCategory: CakeCuisine: Dessert

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