Kit Kat Birthday Cake

For my daughter’s 4th birthday last year I picked one of her favourite chocolates as the theme, Kit Kit (or Kitty Kat, as she calls them).

The cake was a basic butter cake (Australian Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake Book). One tier was vanilla, the other was chocolate. I’d originally tried to use Milo to flavour them but those cakes didn’t turn out properly, so I just made plain ones .

Vanilla buttercream with crushed Kit Kats pressed up around the sides. Doing this meant I could hide my streaky buttercream.

The ganache was also from the same cookbook as the cake but it set way too hard and thick.

Overall it tasted great and the birthday girl loved it. I’ve included some progress photos including the failed cake layers, the replacements, and then the assembly and decoration.