Chocolate - mint whipped cream cake
1 x 3 layers
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Cocoa |
| 1 | cup | ;hot water |
| ½ | cup | Butter or margarine; softened |
| 1¼ | cup | Sugar |
| 1½ | cup | Whipping cream |
| 1 | tablespoon | Powdered sugar |
| 2 | eaches | 1-ounce squares unsweetened chocolate; melted |
| 2 | cups | Powdered sugar; sifted |
| 2 | tablespoons | ;hot water |
| 2 | eaches | Eggs |
| 1⅓ | cup | All-purpose flour |
| 1 | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 2 | teaspoons | Peppermint extract |
| Green paste food coloring | ||
| 1 | each | Egg white |
| ⅓ | cup | Butter or margarine; softened |
| ½ | teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
Directions
THE CAKE
WHIPPED CREAM FILLING
CHOCOLATE FROSTING
THE CAKE:
Combine cocoa and hot water, stirring until smooth.
Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well.
Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with flur mixture. Mix after each addition.
Pour batter into 3 greased and floured 8-inch round cakepans. Bake at 350 F for 15 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove cakes from pans, and let cool completely on wire racks. Spread Whipped Cream Filling between layers; spread Chocolate Frosting on top and sides of cake. Garnish, if desired, placing curls around outside of cake first, and working to the center. Yield; one 3-layer cake.
WHIPPED CREAM FILLING:
Combine first 3 ingredients in a medium mixing bowl; add a small amount of food coloring to mixture, and beat until soft peaks form.
Yield: 3 cups.
CHOCOLATE FROSTING:
Combine first 3 ingredients in a mixing bowl; beat at medium speed of an electric mixer until mixture is smooth. Add egg white, butter, and vanilla; beat until smooth. Set bowl in a pan of ice water, and beat until frosting is thick enough to spread. Yield: 1-¾ cups.
NOTE: To make marbled chocolate curls, melt 12 ounces chocolate-flavored candy coating (squares, wafers, or morsels) in a double boiler placed over hot water. Pour onto a smooth surface, such as marble or an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet. Then melt 12 ounces vanilla-flavored candy coating. Stir a small amount of green-paste food coloring into vanilla coating; pour over chocolate layer. Using a spatula, swirl the two colors to creat a marbled effect, covering a 12" x 9" area. Let stand at room temperature until coating cools and feels slightly tacky but is not firm. (If coating is too hard, curls will break; if too soft, coating will not curl.) Pull a cheese plane across coating until curl forms.
November, 1990"Southern Living" Typos by Jeff Pruett Submitted By JEFF PRUETT On 10-30-95