Butterfinger Cake A.K.A. The Cake That Will Spark A Stampede To Your Door
Warning: I think I hit more tangents than usual in this post. Recipe is at the bottom if you wanna skip through the interesting tidbits about my family, negative people, my dish envy, and complaints about my kitchen.
Looking over some of my past posts, I noticed I have a habit of going on and on about how I love everything I post. Thing is though, I DO love everything I post. If I didn’t love it, I wouldn’t share the recipes with you because I want you to love everything I post, too!
Alright, now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, let me start posting about this cake by saying: I LOVE THIS CAKE!!! Furthermore, EVERYONE LOVES THIS CAKE!! Grown men swoon for it, Children polish their halos and change their vocabulary to “mother dear” for it. No cake I have ever had in a restaurant holds a candle to THIS one.
THIS is the ultimate in decadence and….guess what else? EASE! This is the easiest cake on earth to make. Never have you stopped a show with so little effort.
This recipe came from my sister in law, Stacey. Stacey married into our family about ten years ago. We kind of feel sorry for her from time to time, being married into our brood and all, but since she had been a guest at my sleepovers as far back as third grade, she clearly came in with her eyes wide open. She has learned to adapt quite well to the vast quantities of food we turn out everytime someone blinks funny and she has resigned herself to the possibility that being married to a Davis is not conducive to making it back to that size zero bikini. She has also done the one thing that we all must do eventually: learn to cook just like Mama.
Stacey is a GREAT cook. Thing is, she didn’t cook at all for the first half of their marriage (she was a working mom). Once she quit her job to raise the spawn of Bill (my two sweet nephews, but spawn of Bill sounds better), she took up cooking and made up for lost time. Now Stacey makes the best fried apple pies in the state and she frequently spends a day making twenty or so full sized cakes for my brother’s catering jobs.
Still, as good a cook as Stacey is, her shining contribution to our family’s good eatin’ will always be The Butterfinger Cake. Did you hear an angelic choir when I said that? Butterfinger Cake. There it was again!
You will need: Devil’s Food Cake Mix (The cheaper the better, we want a good old coarse cake), Can Sweetened Condensed Milk, Caramel Topping, Cool Whip, Butterfinger Bar
My brother, Bill, took these pics and Stacey made the cake. She has such a large, open, bright and sunny kitchen. Not that I’m jealous or anything. I love my 6×8 dungeonesque walk in closet with appliances. Really, I do. ~Sighs~
Prepare cake according to package directions. When it comes out, poke holes all in it with a fork, just like we did on the Elvis Presley cake. Don’t stop til it looks like a swarm of four toothed mosquitoes attacked!
Dang, I didn’t know Stacey had the Fire King 9×13 dish. Those were issued in 2000 and didn’t stay on the market long. I got a bowl, but never the dish. I really want the dish now. 
Pour entire can of sweetened condensed milk and jar of caramel topping into bowl or glass and stir to combine.
You know, it just kills me when folks come to my blog and expect to find health food. Alright, so far only one person has remarked about it and I am certain he/she really needed a life. Still, for entertainment purposes y’all go look at comments under Pizza Rolls.
You know what negative people need? A BIG OLD BITE of this cake shoved right in their mouth to sweeten them up! When they come up for air, shove another bite in! Hey, come to think of it, if y’all have any negative or grouchy people in your life, you really should make them this cake today. Honestly, surprising them with this cake might just turn them around. It would at the very least cause them to take pause and look at you in a renewed light. Killing folks with kindness really does work. I swear it. I’ve tried it and been successful every single time.
Where was I? Oh yes. While the cake is still hot, pour the caramel/condensed milk all over the top and spread it around evenly. Then let it soak in. Oh my good lord almighty, this is gonna be good.
I had to look at this a minute before I was able to figure out what it was. At first, I thought Stacey had sent me a photograph of a bowl of cereal for some reason.
Sprinkle 3/4 of butterfinger crumbs over cake. Now let it cool a bit. I stick mine in the fridge at this point.
Waiting is really hard because I have got you wanting to eat it real bad at this point, don’t I? Oh just wait, it gets so much better and you have to wait even longer! Oooh, now look whose being negative?
Alright, let me rephrase in a bright and chipper Mary Poppin’s voice “Oh just you wait, although it may still be a while until the cake is ready, the wait will be rewarded with such a delicious delight and you will have earned it through all of your selfless hard work! You’re such a good person for making this!”.
That was better. 
Once it is cooled, top with the whole thing of whipped cream and remaining butterfinger crumbs. Refrigerate. Now, you can eat this now but it really and truly should get good and cold before you do.
Alright so go ahead and eat a bit now if you have to, but just promise me you’ll have another slice once it cools. You may even need to have two or three slices once it is good and cold so you can make sure you are tasting it fully as it would be quite rude to serve something to others which you have not adequately tasted – for their own good, of course.
Butterfinger Cake
1 box devil’s food cake mix
1 bottle caramel topping
1 can Condensed milk
1 large tub cool whip
1 Butterfinger bar
Prepare cake according to package directions. Immediately after removing cake from oven, poke several holes all over the top with a fork. Mix sweetened condensed milk and caramel together, pour over hot cake, spread it over the entire cake. Chill well. After cake has chilled completely, spread cool whip over the top and sprinkle crushed Butterfinger bar on top of cool whip.
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Ok let me pick my jaw up off the keyboard and wipe off all the drool!!!!!!!!!! hot dang girl that looks so good. I have to many cakes I need to make. UGH
I can’t say it better than Tina did….. so YUM!!!!
I’m just still picking my jaw up off the floor from the rude “pizza roll” peson. SERIOUSLY….RUDE.
I could go off on a tanget here too…. but I won’t. The WHOLE POINT of pizza rolls is good and EASY. Easy and good!
grrr… okay i said I wouldn’t go on. :~)
The cake…well….. simply looks delish!!
Tina: I so wish I could send you a slice of this. You’d just die! I have a waiting list of cakes I need to make for the blog, so I feel your pain! It’s hard with so many sweets I need to cook and wanting to do them all at once! I try to just do one or two a week and even then that seems to be too much around my house!
Debbie: hehe! I could just hug you! lol
Yeah, my anonymous pizza roll commenter was a hoot. Bless their heart…Some people just weren’t raised right!:D
Y’all better be lucky I am not rich because I’d be chartering a private jet to deliver butterfinger cake to everyone! Oh, and pizza rolls ~winks and grins~
Might as well go all the way!
Christy
I make this exact recipe but with a crushed Heath bar instead of butterfinger and it gets devoured. We call it “Better Than Sex Cake”.
Ooh ooh, Angie! You just reminded me of ANOTHER cake I need to post!!
Isn’t this cake to die for? Sounds like y’all like it as much as we do!
Christy
Mouth Open~~~I cant believe someone left that message..its probably some nasty miserable lonley person locked up alone in their apartment with their 15 cats having nothing else better to do with their time but to pick on a happy foodie!!! Bring on the BUTTER sista!!!
That cake looks so good!! I will be trying it soon!
That cake looks so good!! I will be trying it soon!
Holy Divine Decadence, Batman! That looks amazing!
You know, the anonymous pizza rolls comment was technically correct, I suppose, but what’s the point of Southern cooking if you’re so worried about all that nutrition and the environment stuff? I thought the pizza rolls recipe was brilliant!
And this cake recipe is brilliant too.
I have made this cake on numerous occasions and I am always asked for the recipe. It is really easy to prepare and it travels really well! When I tell them how it’s made, they can’t believe it was that easy. If you have never made this cake before, you don’t know what you are missing. It is fantastic!
Leslie: You are the embodiment of all a southern lady should be! ~hands you a vat of butter~ I just love you!
Holly: I hope you enjoy it! Welcome to Southern Plate and let us know if you give it a try!
Stephanie: Yup, you’re right on all accounts! hehe!!
Man, I want pizza rolls. I think I’ll make them this week!
TheQueenOfCuisine: This is my sister in law and Georgia counterpart, Tina. She KNOWS good food, y’all! See? You just had Christy Jordan and Christina Jordan telling you this is to die for, now you HAVE to make it!!!
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
…Have less of an environmental impact? Pizza Rolls?
It musta been the part of the recipe that said to burn down a national forest and pour crude oil on Seagulls while your waiting for the cheese to melt.
Sheesh!
Anyway, this cake looks GREAT!
You have awesome food, Glad I found you!
Bill, I’m glad you found me, too!
Especially since I am still laughing from your comment and just had to call my mother, sister in law, and husband to read it aloud to them!!!!
I hope you have half as good a day as you just set up for me!
Still laughing!
Christy
Yes, this cake is to die for! I’ve had the better than sex cake, but it is basically the same thing…Great recipe!!!
OK I am having a crop on Friday at my house and THIS s what I am making…to be damned the crumbs I am making this Cake!
Pinky sent me here for this recipe!! Love your fun post – I am adding you to my fsvorites! Thanks for sharing the recipe in such an entertaining way!!
OMG! This sounds absolutely sinful! But I’m GOING to make it! I can promise you that.
I made a variation of this about a month ago. It called for german chocolate cake mix instead of devil’s food cake and, I think, four Butterfinger bars!! It was delicious. I messed up though and didn’t put it in the fridge that night, so I had to throw it away. My hips are thanking me for that!
Y’all, I am sorry I’m being on my comments! I’m busy working on apple week and trying to keep up with email and two blogs, and cookbook things and…okay just know that I am sorry I was slow to respond on these!!!
pinky You’re gonna LOVE how easy this is!!!
kira Oooh, that reminds me of our better than *ahem* cake! it’s different from this entirely and I gotta post it!
Just Lisa Welcome to Southern Plate! It’s great to have you here!!! I hope you enjoy this and thank you for reading!
yellow jeep Oh trust me, it IS sinful…you’re gonna love it!!! thank you for reading, as always!!! So great to have you all here!
half redneck Oooh, your version sounds great! I know the bittersweet feeling of leaving it out overnight. I did that with lasagna recently. Although I hated it, on the other hand I would have pigged out all day anyway!
I’ve made this same cake with Heath or Skor bars which are sometimes hard to find, I’m gonna sub Butterfinger…I like them better anyway!
Oh my land sakes a mercy!
I am going to HAVE to make this cake!
THANK YOU!
Just found your blog and had to say Hey! I make that cake only with Heath bars and we call it “Better than Sex Cake” except, of course, when it submitted it to the church recipe book…then the powers that be insisted the name be changed to Heavenly Heath Cake.
Anyway, I am loving looking through the recipes and can’t wait to try some.
Hey y’all! Welcome to Southern Plate!!!
It’s so good to have you here!
I gotta post our “Better than Sex” cake ~looks around and lowers her voice as she says that~
It isn’t anything like this but is so very good, I bet y’all would just love it. I’m gonna add that to my “to do” list!
Christy
I am referring to the above comments about negative people.
I think Paula Deen said it best when she said “Honey, I’m a cook,
not your doctor!”
That cake WILL be on my table by noon on Saturday. Ha!
OH Joan!!! I LOVE IT!!! I have never heard that quote before and you better believe I will be using it now!!!
Thank you!!
Okay, now I am forcing myself to get off the computer……..forcing. See? I’m going…any minute now, about to turn this off…….honest…..
OMG!!! I have GOT to make this cake for my office mates…I will be hailed a hero to one and all!!! And to anyone out there all fired concerned about whether or not this, or any other recipe you post, is healthy or not…well, they wouldn’t know good food if it hit them in the face…but, who would want to waste good food on that!!
Your recipes are beyond awesome!!!! Keep up the great work!!!
Hey Christy,
Just wanted to let you know that I made this cake for a family get together this past weekend and the WHOLE thing was GONE in about 10 minutes!!! Oh Lawdy, almost made me wanna slap my Momma!
) Thanks for sharing with us.
Our church Christmas play is tomorrow night and this Butterfinger cake always gets devoured! I Googled Butterfinger cake to get the ingredients to e-mail a shopping list to husband and ran across your blog/recipe and really enjoyed reading it and will be sure to check out your other recipes!
Ohmistars… I made this for my family *faint thud*. Thank you for sharing it. You’re a rock star
Hi Christy–Girl…OMG! You have appropriately named this cake correctly –the part about the stampede
Made this one for Christmas Eve dinner for my family in BHM and it was the hit of the holiday weekend! Seriously. It does not disappoint. It is even BETTER (if that is possible–or if you have any left) the second day. Luckily I stashed a piece for myself for christmas day! Everyone asked for this recipe. It really is a homerun and soooo easy. THANK YOU so much for sharing!!! Happy New Year!!
I’m a Northern boy here and yes, I do bake a lot. One of our good friends lost his father a few weeks before his birthday. We weren’t sure whether to make a cake for him or not, but of course my friends bestowed upon me the honor of baking it. So I knew that our friend was obsessed with butterfingers and a fan of chocolate, so this cake just sounded perfect. AND IT WAS!!!! He loved it and I think it was just a nice sweet little pick-me-up when he was down.
So thank you so much for sharing the recipe
Can I just say how much I love reading everything you say?! Your recipes are great, but your personality comes through even better! You make me feel like I am in the kitchen with my best friend and she is telling me about her newest recipe! Thank you for that! It just makes cooking that much more fun! You are great! The site is great! The food is great! Is there some kind of award we fans can nominate you for????
This looks awesome, can’t wait to try it. What size pan would I use, it looks like a 9×13 correct.
One other thing and I hate to nit-pick…but in the printed recipe you missed a step; the addition of 3/4 of the crushed Butterfinger bar to the cake before chilling is not in the printed recipe.
Thanks again for the recipe.
Well I know this is a good one as I’ve already made it. I made the pizza and some more of them life altering pizza rolls last night just because I was in the mood to cook! How strange is that? I promised the lil’ girl at my Mother’s Dr. office I would make her a cake. Seems like I found one to make.
Hello all from the 7 degree north.
Just wanted to know where to get the recipe to print.
Thank you and God Bless
Oh.My.God. I think I need to sit down and weep a bit from happiness then go out and buy the ingredients for this cake! Butterfinger is my all-time favorite candy bar and cake is my all-time favorite dessert, which means this cake is a marriage made in heaven.
Give Stacey an enormous thank you hug and tell her she’s a girl after my own heart; we even have the exact same dishes!
Hi Christy. Absolutely love your recipes. I’ve made several of the apple dapple cakes. (got raves from my work and hubby’s co-workers). I have a request though. I buy most things in large containers or in bulk. You mentioned a can of caramel and a can of sweetened condensed milk for this butterfinger cake. Can you give me the volume of these things in ounces please? Or doesn’t it matter that much. Just 1/2 and 1/2? Thanks, Kay
As I am waiting for bariatric surgery on Monday you can not believe how much I have to look forward to the summer so that I make this to have just a taste and then share the rest with other. Lois
Just as I was getting bugged this morning (no, all this week) about what I was making for the super bowl… I think this may trump the little football shaped cake I was going to make. Along with venison fajitas and mini-burgers and god knows what else!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
This looks so good! I have all the stuff to make it for tomorrow! And I loved reading your entire post!
I just love reading your descriptions of each recipe.You make me laugh every time. Thanks for making me smile again today!!
I just stumbled upon your website this morning and boy, am I ever glad I did. I love it! I’m a transplanted Yankee who married a Georgia boy and who’s been living and cooking in the south for 16 years now (I don’t even remember that former life). This cake sounds way too yummy to ignore. I have found so many recipes to try today, I don’t know where to begin. Actually, I think I’m starting with this cake! Thanks again!
Oh this looks sooo good!!!! I can’t wait to make this! My kids are gonna go ape over this one! And they don’t even live at home anymore!!! LOL!!!
I have been making this for my daughters birthday for the last 8 years or more just a tad bit of difference,her favorite flavor cake is devils food, candybar is heath bar, she dosent care for icing but loves cool whip, I found a recipe somewhat like this one just use the chocolate ice cream topping instead. She ask for no other wants no other, Her exact words “Mom this is the best cake I think I have ever tasted, From now on this is the only birthday cake I want. so I make her one each year, If none of you havent tried it do you will not be sorry, It will become a favorite, and thats a fact. Happy Cookin all
Man oh man, this recipe would make a puppy pull a freight train! Now I’ve got to go back to the store and get the ingredients. I just went yesterday but this one is worth a second trip. Thanks from F;orida.
Greetings from Kentucky Angie! I just happened to stumble on your site and oh my word…..I am in love!!!!!! Hubby is on his way to Wal-Mart now to get the ingredients for this wonderful cake! Thanks so much!
oops! The recipe had me so giddy…Christy not Angie. Angie is my best friend that I am calling about this recipe. LOL
OHhhhh this cake sounds so heavenly!! I’m heading to the store in the morning to get butterfinger bars so I can make this. Can’t wait to put this on the table for my brood, lol.
Christy, much appreciation and many thanks for all the fantastic, easy recipes and all the good humor you add with each of them. Sure am glad I stumbled my way in here.
thanks from Va.
Hi, Christy,
I have been on your site for a couple of hours now! Just love it! Please keep it up.
I have been making this cake for a long time, 15-17 years! Mine is a little different – I use chocolate syrup, caramel syrup AND sweetened condensed milk – and I don’t mix them…I just pour each one straight from the can onto the cake! Oh, and I use the handle end of a wooden spoon to poke holes in the cake!
My son-in-law has loved me ever since I made it for him, when he and my daughter were first dating!
Hi Christy! I just wanted to pop back in & let you know that I made it to the store and got my butterfinger bars. I made the butterfinger cake and was in no way dissappointed, it is to die for! My 20 yr old son , his girlfriend & her sister all had big slices and said it was a keeper and made me promise to make it often. My two youngest ages 8 and 11 said it is the best cake ever and made me promise to thank you for telling me how to make it.So all of us are sending you a big THANK YOU!!!
I was getting really bored with cooking and fixing the same old things over & over. You have put the fun and excitement back into cooking for me. I love going through all your recipes and finding different and wonderful new foods to fix for my family that are so easy as well as cheap to put together.
You have a great site and we all luv ya loads.
“You know, it just kills me when folks come to my blog and expect to find health food.”
There is just something so wrong</strong about reading the words “health food” and “Southern cooking” on the same page. Unsettling, really.
This looks like a GREAT cake especially since I love Butterfinger bars.
You are just too funny! I love reading ur blogs!
Oh and the cake looks wonderful!
I wanted to tell you that I made this cake again.
I blogged about it on my page if you want to see it.
http://janedoesntblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/butterfinger-cake-and-celebration.html
Thanks so much for this recipe.
It was wonderful!!!!!
I bet this would be even better with homemade caramel and homemade devil’s food cake! Thanks!
OMG This cake is wonderful. Thank you for the great recipes
Wow, that is trailer park cooking at it’s finest! I was trying to figure out what to make for a birthday party this weekend, and here was the answer! Thanks for the recipe and the laughs.
Love, love, love this cake! I’ve been making it for several years, but it is now my birthday cake and my sister or sisters-in law make it for me every year. Around here (KY), it’s known as Holy Cow! cake. Don’t care what you call it – it’s great!!
Hmmm…this does look yummy! I just found your blog button at the bottom of Southern Savers’ blog, and I do enjoy the way that you write. I feel as if I’ve had a nice, little chat with an old friend! Thanks for sharing this yummy recipe!
Making this right now, I’m switching the butterfinger for heath bars! Has anyone else ever done this….this cake is so YUMMY!!!!
Hi Christy,
Can I just tell you? You are HILARIOUS. This cake looks DELICIOUS. I love your blog and I’m slowly but surely reading through all your old posts. This is exactly the kind of food I ate growing up, and that my extended famiy eats, and looking through your recipes/pictures makes me think so much of fun times with my family. By the way, I love your tangents as much (if not more) than the actual recipes. Please, more tangents!
I made this for our church lunch and it was a huge hit! We serve a lot of college kiddos and they ate it up – thanks for this wonderful recipe!
I’ve made this cake for years but it was called Chocolate Lover’s Delight and you use Skor Bars on top instead of Butterfingers. Sometimes Skor Bars are hard to find so I just might do a switch-out the next time I make it!! Thanks!!!
I am so excited to make this. My husbands favortire candy bar is the butterfinger. When I found this I knew he would die!! Thanks
His birthday is friday!!
Well I make Butterfinger cake but its NOTHING like this one. And before I give you my recipe I just want to say this cake is exactly like another one I fix called OOEY GOOEY CAKE or BETTER THAN SEX CAKE.
Now the butterfinger cake I make calls for.
1 Angel food cake. I buy it already baked from walmart. Tear it into small pieces and cover the bottom of a cake sized pan.
Take 2 cups of powdered sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup of butter
it calls for 1 tsp of vanilla but i always us extra of the vanilla and I use a tbsp and also always use about a half a cup extra of the powederd sugar as well.
And one 16 oz container of cool whip. Mix those ingredients together. Hint I always mix everything then add the cool whip makes it easier.
After you get that mixed pour that onto the angel food cake bits this does not make the cake soggy at all ever.
After you do that Take either the big pack of butterfingers or I buy two of the small packs freeze them to make them crush easier and after you get them crushed sprinkle on top of the cake then regrigerate. This is how everyone fixes this here in good ole WV. Some people substitute the 2 eggs for the egg in the box because of the whole health warning and all. But this is Butterfinger cake to me and my whole family loves it and its actually served at a restuarant nearby me for a dessert as well.
Now to the cake you are calling butterfinger cake. I use Chocolate fudge flavored cake mix. Cook it let it cool poke the holes and pour one can of eagles brand condensed milk over it let it soak and then i use about half a jar of the hersheys caramel in a glass jar and the hersheys hot fudge in a glass jar pour about half of each or a lil more whatever you like on top of the cake as well (one at a time of course) NOT MIXED together which it all ends up together. But after that. You let it cool a lil more and use a 16 oz container of cool whip on top of that. It is very good.
Now some take that same recipe and add toffee the candy bars I cant recall the name of them at the moment and instead of the chocolate or you can use chocolate as well and you add that to the top then layer with the cool whip and it is called Better than sex cake. You can google it and it will come up that way as well.
But if anyone tries my way of the Butterfinger cake Because its awesome please let me know. Hope I didnt forget anything. But I have had many people brag on it. Thanks so much!
The candy bars that went on that other cake I was speaking of that people call the Better Than sex cake was heath bars thats used for the toffee.
oh my goodness! I was going to make this cake for my boyfriends birthday.Well that day he dumped he me for some other chick,so i invited all of my roommates goodlooking brothers over to eat it. I darn near got 3 marriage proposals!!!! they loved it! thanks so much for this recipe!
LOL! This has to win some type of award for one of the best comments (and attitudes!) ever!!!
Thank YOU!