Chocolate Peppermint Cake
Yield
1 cakePrep
20 minCook
40 minReady
1 hrsIngredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup |
butter
or margarine, softened |
|
| 2 ¼ | cups |
brown sugar
|
*
|
| 3 | ounces |
unsweetened chocolate
melted |
|
| 2 ¼ | cups |
cake flour
sifted |
|
| 1 ½ | teaspoons |
baking soda
|
|
| ½ | teaspoon |
salt
|
|
| ½ | cup |
buttermilk
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
vanilla extract
|
|
| 1 | cup |
water
boiling |
|
| 6 | packages |
mint chocolate wafers
|
* |
| Frosting | |||
| 2 | each |
egg whites
|
*
|
| 1 ½ | cups |
sugar
|
|
| ⅛ | teaspoon |
salt
|
|
| ⅓ | cup |
water
|
|
| 2 | teaspoons |
light corn syrup
|
|
| ½ | teaspoon |
mint extract
|
*
|
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118 | ml |
butter
or margarine, softened |
|
| 532 | ml |
brown sugar
|
*
|
| 86.7 | ml/g |
unsweetened chocolate
melted |
|
| 532 | ml |
cake flour
sifted |
|
| 7.5 | ml |
baking soda
|
|
| 2.5 | ml |
salt
|
|
| 118 | ml |
buttermilk
|
|
| 5 | ml |
vanilla extract
|
|
| 237 | ml |
water
boiling |
|
| 6 | packages |
mint chocolate wafers
|
* |
| Frosting | |||
| 2 | each |
egg whites
|
*
|
| 355 | ml |
sugar
|
|
| 0.6 | ml |
salt
|
|
| 79 | ml |
water
|
|
| 1E+1 | ml |
light corn syrup
|
|
| 2.5 | ml |
mint extract
|
*
|
Directions
Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
Add cooled chocolate, and blend. Sift together flour, soda and salt, and add alternately to chocolate mixture with buttermilk; beat until smooth.
Stir in vanilla and water.
Pour into 3 (8 or 9-inch) layer pans lined on the bottoms with wax paper.
Bake in a preheated 350℉ (180℃). oven for about 30 minutes.
Remove to racks, and press mints on the 2 bottom layers.
Cool, and spread Peppermint Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.
Frosting: Place all ingredients except peppermint extract in the top of a double boiler.
Put over boiling water, and beat with a rotary beater or electric mixer for 7 minutes, or until mixture will stand in stiff peaks.
Add peppermint extract.
