What to do when your favourite chocolate bar forms part of an amazing birthday cake? Why, share it with as many people as possible; applaud the creator whom we discover to be Nestlé culinary assistant Tonia Blake, who honed her skills at B&E training and catering academy; and cop the recipe. Mission accomplished! Here are some fun facts about the cake. Did you, for example, know that a Red Velvet Kit Kat cake requires a 45-minute bake time, 24 Kit Kat Chunky for the border of the cake and three four-finger bars for the cream cheese Kit Kat frosting?

No worries. Neither did we! What we can, however, imagine is the joy you’ll experience preparing this visually appealing cake with friends and/or family.

KIT KAT White Chocolate Cake

Ingredients• ½ cup butter

• 2 large eggs

• 2 egg whites only

• ¼ cup vegetable oil

• 2 tbsps Toll House Cocoa Powder (available at Loshusan, Lee’s,

General Foods, MegaMart & John R Wong)

• 2 ½ tbsps red food colouring

• 1 tbsp vinegar

• 2 tsps vanilla

• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 cup buttermilk (1 cup Omega Low-Fat Milk and 1 tbsp vinegar)

Method:

Heat oven to 350˚F and lightly grease two (2) 8oz baking tins and dust

with flour. Cream butter and sugar until light in colour, then add eggs one

at a time, beating well after each. Add oil, Toll House Cocoa Powder, food

colouring and vanilla, then stir into cream mixture until evenly combined.

In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and salt, add ½ dry

ingredients to butter mixture and ½ cup buttermilk, stir for 2 minutes until

smooth (be careful not to overmix). Add second half to butter mixture along

with the remaining ½ cup buttermilk.

Divide batter amount into two prepared pans and bake for approximately

25-30 minutes.

KIT KAT Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:• 2 cups cream cheese (roomIn a mixer, cream whipping cream until stiff. Add icing sugar, ¼

temperature)

• 1 lb icing sugar

• 2 tsps vanilla extract

• 1 tsp strawberry flavouring

• 4 bars Kit Kat Chunky White

(blended into crumbs)

• 18 bars Kit Kat Chunky White (outer layer of cake)

• 2 cups whipping cream (ice-cold)

Method:

cup at a time until evenly combined, then add remaining ingredients.

Mix together until smooth.

Decoration

Spread Kit Kit frosting evenly on one layer of the cake. Add second

layer to the top. Spread remaining frosting on top and sides of cakes

evenly. Decorate cake using Kit Kat Chunky Bars in a circular motion.

Topped with sliced strawberries.

To serve, use each bar of Kit Kat Chunky White to guide you in

cutting a slice of cake. Each cake yields 24 slices.

Nutrition Facts for Serving (1 slice)

Calories Protein Carbs Fat

477 kcal 5.8 g 46.0 g 29.1 g