Description
A visually striking layer cake featuring rich chocolate layers balanced with fresh mint flavor, perfect for celebrations.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 3 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1/2 cup Dark Chocolate chopped
- 1 drop green food coloring
- 1 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature (for buttercream)
- 5 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp peppermint extract (for buttercream)
- 1/4 drop green food coloring (for buttercream)
- 1/4 cup cream
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chopped, OR use mint Oreos (for buttercream)
- 1/2 cup dark Chocolate chopped, OR use mint Oreos (for assembly)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Butter and flour three six inch pans.
- Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Sift the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Beat the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until well-incorporated, scrape the bowl at least once.
- Beat the wet ingredients together in a medium bowl.
- Add the wet to the butter mixture and mix until just combined.
- Fold in dark chocolate chunks at the very end and mix.
- Divide the mixture evenly into the cake pans.
- Bake for about 35 minutes or until the centers are springy to the touch and the edge is pulling away from the pan.
- For the Buttercream: Beat the butter until light and fluffy.
- Add the confectioners’ sugar, salt, extract, and cream then mix.
- Reserve about 3/4 cup of the buttercream for the white dollops.
- Divide the remaining buttercream into two batches: a large one for the green and a small one for the chocolate spiral.
- Add green food coloring and chopped chocolate to one batch of buttercream and mix.
- Add cocoa powder to another batch of buttercream.
- Transfer both buttercreams into 2 piping bags. Add the green and cocoa buttercream to one bag. Snip off the tip.
- For the Assembly: Pipe the cocoa buttercream mixture between layers.
- Sprinkle crushed mint Oreos or chopped chocolate onto the buttercream and add the next layer of cake. Repeat this step.
- Coat the outside with green buttercream, smooth with an offset spatula.
- Add a skirt of chopped chocolate around the bottom of the cake.
- Pipe white buttercream dollops on top with an 869 tip.
Notes
- Use gel food coloring for best color results.
- Cake strips on pans help achieve more even baking.
- You can substitute chopped dark chocolate with mint Oreos in the filling and assembly.
- Prep Time: 30 min
- Cook Time: 35 min
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 550
- Sugar: 75g
- Sodium: 250mg
- Fat: 28g
- Saturated Fat: 17g
- Unsaturated Fat: 11g
- Trans Fat: 0.5g
- Carbohydrates: 75g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 5g
- Cholesterol: 80mg
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