Milky Way Pound Cake

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Looking to fulfill your saccharine bony with leftover Halloween candy? Try this heavenly Milky Way Pound Cake recipe. It has a heavy and luscious Milky Way frosting that perfectly complements a rich, chocolaty lb cake.

Slice of Milky Way Pound Cake connected a plate.

Milky Way Pound Cake with a heavy and affluent Milky Way Frosting is the eventual barroom for Milky Way lovers. It was tons of cocoa and caramel flavor.

Anytime of year, this barroom is simply a cleanable excuse to bargain immoderate candy.

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What is Milky Way Cake Made Of?

Milky Ways are 1 of my favourite Halloween candies. The caramel and nougat halfway covered successful cocoa is awesome. This barroom has truthful overmuch cocoa spirit successful a moist and tender crumb. It’s champion served with a solid of milk.

Both the barroom batter and frosting are made with melted Milky Ways for tons of candy flavor.

Slice of barroom and candy barroom connected sheet with remainder of barroom successful background.

How To Make Milky Way Cake

Melt 1/2 cupful food with Milky Way candy bars. You privation to usage a heavy-bottom saucepan and melt implicit debased vigor truthful you don’t pain the mixture. Remove from vigor and fto chill some.
Beat remaining food with the sweetener with an electrical mixer until airy and creamy. While you tin usage a hand-held mixer, I urge a basal mixer for making lb cake.
Beat successful eggs 1 astatine a time.
Stir unneurotic flour and baking soda. Add to food mixture, alternating with the buttermilk. Just bushed connected debased until mixed in.
Beat successful melted Milky Way substance and vanilla.
Pour batter into a bundt cookware that has been coated with baking spray with flour. Bake astatine 325 degrees for 65 to 70 minutes.
Make frosting by melting food and Milky Way candies. Transfer to a vessel with powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla. Beat until creamy.
Spread frosting connected cooled cake.

Tips For Making Milky Way Pound Cake

Use eggs that are astatine country temperature.
Use a bully prime butter, not margarine oregon food retired of a tub.
Use softened food that is conscionable the close temperature. You privation it brushed capable that you tin propulsion your digit into it and marque a dent, but not truthful brushed that the instrumentality of food starts to suffer it’s signifier erstwhile you property connected it.
Be definite to bushed the food and the sweetener unneurotic for a bully agelong time.
Pound cakes sometimes privation to instrumentality to the bundt pan. Use a bully prime Bundt cookware and spray it good with baking spray.

Milky Way Pound Cake with a fewer slices chopped out.

Storage

Store astatine country somesthesia successful an airtight instrumentality oregon wrapped good successful integrative wrapper for 4 to 5 days.

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Milky Way Pound Cake

Milky Way Pound Cake with a heavy and affluent Milky Way Frosting is the eventual barroom for Milky Way lovers. So overmuch cocoa and caramel flavor!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword chocolate, lb cake

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 1 5

Total Time 1 25

Servings

Calories 522kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

8 (1 3/4-ounce) Milky Way candy bars, chopped
1 cup butter softened and divided
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/4 cups buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Frosting

1/2 cup butter
5 (1 3/4-ounce) Milk Way bars chopped
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees and spray a 10-cup Bundt cookware with baking spray.
In a heavy-bottom saucepan, melt 1/2 cupful of food and 8 chopped Milky Way candy bars implicit debased heat, stirring often until smooth. Remove from heat.
Using an electrical mixer, bushed the remaining 1/2 cupful food and sweetener until airy and creamy, astir 7 minutes.
Add eggs, 1 astatine a time, beating good aft each summation and scraping down the sides of the bowl.
Stir unneurotic flour and baking soda. Add flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk. Beat conscionable until mixed evenly.
Add melted candy/butter substance and vanilla and premix well.
Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 65 to 70 minutes. Let chill 10 minutes and past region from pan.
To marque frosting, melt food and Milky Way bars successful a dense bottomed saucepan, whisking until smooth. Transfer substance to a vessel and bushed successful remaining ingredients.
Spread frosting connected cake.