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Baking is a hobby of mine, in fact anything to do with eating tasty food is probably a hobby of mine. I have a massive sweet tooth and when I manage to get any spare time I love to do a bit of baking. I've got so many recipe's pinned on Pinterest, its getting a bit ridiculous to be honest! So I decided that I was going to start baking the recipe's I'd found on Pinterest and if I liked them and they worked out, they would make it to a keepers board. However, finding time to do all this baking can be quite tricky and it's not going to be the best for my waist line. To be more realistic I decided it would be more reasonable to try and bake one recipe a month, the first recipe I tried out was this snickers layer cake. Something you should know about me I love chocolate and peanut butter, so a snickers cake sounds like heaven to me!

This snickers layer cake recipe came from the taming twins blog. Go check it out for the recipe details if you fancy making it too. I followed the recipe exactly as she wrote and everything turned out perfectly. I didn't have four tins the same size, any part time baker is not going to have four tins the same size. Luckily I did have one tin that was 7inch and a silicone cake pan that was just under 7inch. I split the batter between these and ended up having to bake them for around 50mins.

Once they were baked and cooled, I cut the tops off them and then cut them in half. Making the frosting was even easier than baking the cake. However, I'm yet to find a way to stop the cloud of icing sugar coating everything in the kitchen!! The frosting tasted exactly like a snickers bar, its amazing and is a butter cream recipe that I'm definitely going to keep written down. There is a caramel sauce that you can make or you can cheat and buy the tinned stuff. I'll hold my hands up, I did cheat with this bit and buy the can of carnation caramel. It was really easy to assemble the cake. Just cake, butter cream and caramel, until the last layer where you get to layer on some chopped up snickers.

This cake turned out so well, it tasted amazing and went down so well with all my friends. The only problem I came across with this recipe is that it made way too much butter cream. I iced this four layer cake and still had enough to ice 24 cupcakes. I would recommend only making half to 3/4 of the butter cream recipe. However, if you do decide to make this cake and to make the full recipe. You can always do as I did and make some cupcakes or freeze the icing for another time.