Big Twix-inspired Cake

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**Twix Cake**
Source: [So Yummy]( https://soyummy.co/recipe/giant-twix-cake/)
¾ cup butter, room temp
8 oz cream cheese, room temp
1 ½ cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
5 eggs
3 tbsp milk
¾ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 ¾ cup flour
2 cups of caramels
16 oz milk chocolate
1/3 cup of heavy cream
Heat oven to 350 before creating the mixture.
In a large bowl, mix 8 oz of cream cheese, 3/4 cup of butter, and 1 1/2 cup of sugar until smooth. Add 5 eggs, 3 tbsp of milk, 2 tsp of vanilla extract and whisk to combine. Add in 1 3/4 cups of flour, 3/4 tsp of salt, 1 tsp of baking powder and whisk until batter is just combined.
Pour the batter into a greased and floured loaf pan. Bake until golden brown or 55 minutes. Cool the cake completely.
Melt 2 cups of caramels and 1/3 cup of heavy cream and pour them over the top of the cooled cake. Allow that to set in the refrigerator until hardened. Melt 16 oz of milk chocolate and pour over the cake, and allow it to harden.
**A tip from me**: Combine your dry ingredients for the cake batter and sift them into the bowl before you fold them in–you’ll have fewer lumps and the baking powder will be more evenly distributed.
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If you decide you want to **make your own caramel** instead of using purchased caramels, try this:
1/4 cup (60 ml) water
1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar
2/3 cup (160 ml) heavy whipping cream
3 tablespoons (45 grams) unsalted butter, cut into tablespoon size pieces
1 tsp vanilla
½ tsp salt
Heat the water and sugar over medium heat, stirring constantly until the mixture just starts to bubble. Increase the heat to medium-high and bring to a boil and stop stirring. Let it boil and watch it until it turns an amber color (this usually takes between 5 and 10 minutes). Remove from the heat and slowly whisk in the heavy cream, vanilla, and salt. The mixture will bubble up quite a bit, so make sure to do this very carefully. Cut in the butter, stirring constantly.