You’ve gotta try this Twix layer cake if you’re a fan of Twix!
If caramel and chocolate is your ultimate sweet treat combo, then don’t just sit there…make Twix layered cake. This gorgeous, showstopper of a cake looks like it came straight from the bakery, but it’s beyond simple to make.
It starts with boxed cake mix and then you make a simple caramel frosting and top the whole thing off with Twix. Whether you need a dessert to impress your guests or someone’s birthday is about to roll around, don’t waste time making inferior cakes. Twix layered cake is the ultimate way to show your awesomeness and the best part is that it’s as easy as opening up a Twix bar wrapper!
Add some homemade vanilla ice cream, and you’ve got yourself a real winner for a party!
What You Will Need for Twix Layered Cake
For the Cake:
2 boxes of triple chocolate cake mix
6 large eggs
2 ½ cups water
1 cup canola oil
3 9-inch round cake pans
1 10-round cake board
1 cake slicer to level out the cake domes
For the Frosting:
2 cups unsalted butter, softened
5 cups powdered sugar
4-6 tbsp heavy whipping cream
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
4 tbsp caramel sauce
1 bottle of caramel sauce
1 bottle of chocolate sauce
Twix candy bars
1 large piping bag with star tip
Make Your Own Twix Layered Cake
Follow these simple steps to bake up cake perfection with the Twix layered cake! You’ll begin by getting the oven heated and prepping your cake pans. The batter is a snap – just beat the cake mix and ingredients together with your hand mixer and then split it up into the 3 cake pans.
You’ll pop the cake pans into the oven and let them do their thing. Meanwhile, you’ll use your stand mixer to make your frosting. It starts with butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, heavy whipping cream, and just a little bit of the caramel sauce. Once it is smooth with stiff peaks, you’re done.
When the cake layers are cool, you can then cut the domes off each to make the layers even.
Set one cake layer on your cake board and add some frosting, smoothing to make it even. Keep repeating for all the layers, and once you get to the last one, frost the entire cake using a frosting scraper to make it smooth and even.
You’ll drip caramel sauce on the top edge to make it drip down the side. Do that with the chocolate sauce too. Take your star tipped piping bag and put little dollops of frosting all around the top of the cake and then finish it all off with pieces of Twix set into the frosting.
Any Twix pieces you don’t use on the cake are fair game for snacking. Scroll down and you’ll see the whole process come together in a flash!
Take this chocolate cake and elevate it to a Twix Cake!
For the Chocolate Cake
- 2 Boxes of Triple Chocolate Cake Mix
- 6 large eggs
- 2 ½ C water
- 1 C canola oil
- 3 9in round cake pans
- 1 10 round cake board
- 1 cake slicer to level out the cake domes
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and spray the cake pans with pam baking spray.
- Using a hand mixer, beat together all ingredients until combined.
- Divide batter into the 3 cake pans.
- Bake at 350°F for 28-35 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
Caramel Frosting Ingredients:
- 2 C unsalted butter, softened
- 5 C powdered sugar
- 4-6 tbsp heavy whipping cream
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 4 tbsp caramel sauce
- 1 bottle of caramel sauce
- 1 bottle of chocolate sauce
- Twix candy bars
- 1 large piping bag with star tip
Directions
- Using a standing mixer, beat together the butter, powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, vanilla, and 2 tbsp caramel sauce.
- Beat until combined, smooth, and stiff with peaks.
Building the Cake Directions :
- Place one cake layer onto the cake board and cut the dome off the cake to make an even layer.
- Repeat step with other two layers.
- Place one of the cake layers onto the cake board.
- Scoop 1 Cup of caramel frosting onto the cake layer and smooth evenly.
- Place the second cake layer on top of the frosting.
- Smooth 1 C of caramel frosting onto the second cake layer.
- Place the last layer on top.
- Frost the entire cake with the remaining frosting and smooth it evenly with a frosting scraper or a flat metal spatula.
- Using the caramel sauce, pipe drips around the top edge of the cake so that it drips down the sides.
- Repeat step with the chocolate sauce.
- Pipe dollops of frosting around the top of the cake.
- Place pieces of Twix candy bars into the frosting.
- Enjoy!
Twix Layered Cake
Ingredients
For the Chocolate Cake:
- 2 Boxes of Triple Chocolate Cake Mix
- 6 large eggs
- 2 ½ C water
- 1 C canola oil
- 3 9in round cake pans
- 1 10 round cake board
- 1 cake slicer to level out the cake domes
Caramel Frosting Ingredients:
- 2 C unsalted butter, softened
- 5 C powdered sugar
- 4-6 tbsp heavy whipping cream
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 4 tbsp caramel sauce
- 1 bottle of caramel sauce
- 1 bottle of chocolate sauce
- Twix candy bars
- 1 large piping bag with star tip
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and spray the cake pans with pam baking spray.
- Using a hand mixer, beat together all ingredients until combined.
- Divide batter into the 3 cake pans,
- Bake at 350°F for 28-35 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
- Using a standing mixer, beat together the butter, powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, vanilla, 2 tbsp caramel sauce.
- Beat until combined, smooth and stiff with peaks.
- Place one cake layer onto the cake board and cut the dome off the cake to make an even layer.
- Repeat step with other two layers.
- Place one of the cake layers onto the cake board.
- Scoop 1 C of caramel frosting onto the cake layer and smooth evenly.
- Place the second cake layer on top of the frosting.
- Smooth 1 C of caramel frosting onto the second cake layer.
- Place the last layer on top.
- Frost the entire cake with the remaining frosting and smooth it evenly with a frosting scraper or a flat metal spatula.
- Using the caramel sauce, the pipe drips around the top edge of the cake so that it drips down the sides.
- Repeat the step with the chocolate sauce.
- Pipe dollops of frosting around the top of the cake.
- Place pieces of Twix candy bars into the frosting.
- Enjoy!