Rich Chocolate Mint Cake
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Ingredients
| ½ | cup |
butter
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| 2 | cups |
sugar
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| 4 | each |
eggs
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| 4 | ounces |
unsweetened chocolate
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| 1 | cup |
all-purpose flour
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| ½ | teaspoon |
salt
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| ⅔ | cup |
milk
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| 3 | teaspoons |
vanilla extract
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| 1 | teaspoon |
mint leaves
dried, finely crumbled |
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| 1 | cup |
nuts
chopped |
Directions
Preheat oven to 375℉ (190℃).
Cream butter and sugar.
Beat in eggs one at a time.
Melt chocolate in a double boiler.
Stir into butter and egg mixture.
Sift flour with salt.
Add flour alternately with milk.
When the batter is smooth, stir in vanilla, mint and nuts.
Bake in 8 inch square cake pan for 50 minutes.
Serve chilled, plain or iced with a simple chocolate glace decorated with sugared mint leaves.
Sugar leaves by taking leaves flushed with cold water, dipping them in eggs whites and rolling them in fine granulated sugar.
Dry on waxed paper.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 299g (10.5 oz)Amount per Serving
Calories 108045% of calories from fat
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 55g
84%
Saturated Fat 24g
120%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol 250mg
83%
Sodium 546mg
23%
Total Carbohydrate
47g
47%
Dietary Fiber 7g
27%
Sugars g
Protein
37g
Vitamin A 22%
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Vitamin C 1%
Calcium 13%
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Iron 37%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet
How is this calculated?
