My Annual Halloween Hershey's Nuggets Cakes!

 They're finished - my annual Halloween Hershey's Nugget Cakes!  Last year, I shared these 3-tiered towers of chocolate yumminess.  The original tutorial comes from Splitcoaststampers and they've been a HUGE hit with my daughters and their friends every year.

I used the Magic In This Night suite to create these - the stamps, dies, patterned and black glimmer paper, ribbon, and embossing folder.  Each nugget is wrapped in a 1"x3" strip of Magic In This Night Designer Series Paper, then adhered to a cardboard ring with Tear & Tape (you really need the strength of this adhesive for this project).

To create the cardboard rings that the Nuggets are glued to, I cut 3 strips per cake from a cereal box in these sizes:

• 1"x6" - holds 7 Nuggets
• 1"x8" - holds 9 Nuggets
• 1"x10" - holds 11 Nuggets
• Form a circle with each cereal box strip and staple the ends together.  Then glue on the wrapped Nuggets (lay 2 strips of Tear & Tape on the rings, peel off the liners, and press the Nuggets to the exposed adhesive).

The Party Pack bag of Nuggets was enough to make all 3 of these cakes.

The layers are separated by cardstock circles (you can use dies or punches to make them, or trace round objects around your home).  All layers of the tiers are hot-glued together.

The pieces on top of the cakes were hot-glued to toothpicks colored with a Dark Basic Black Stampin' Blends marker.  I poked holes in the top tier (the Take Your Pick Tool has a piercer that easily does this) and stuck the toothpicks in.

These are seriously fun to make and my daughters LOVE taking them to school to share with their friends!  The cakes get the best reactions and I love that everyone enjoys them so much.  Give them a try!!  Follow the tutorial on Splitcoaststampers and send me a picture of your cake!

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