Deep Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cake

Name: Deep Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cake
Prep time: 2 h 30 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking soda; 59 milliliters butter; 473 milliliters sifted cake flour; 2 egg yolks; 414 milliliters milk, divided; 118 milliliters crushed peppermint hard candies; 3 drops red food coloring; 1 teaspoons salt; 113 grams unsweetened chocolate; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 473 milliliters white sugar

Deep Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cake requires around 2 hours and 30 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 8. One serving contains 520 calories, 8g of protein, and 17g of fat. It is perfect for Christmas. Head to the store and pick up salt, food coloring, peppermint candies, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9-inch round pans and line the bottoms with parchment paper.

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Sift together the cake flour and salt.

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Cake Flour

Salt

Melt chocolate and butter together in a double boiler. Turn into mixing bowl, and cool to room temperature; this mixture must be cool.

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Chocolate

Butter

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Double Boiler

Mixing Bowl

Mix in the sugar. Blend in egg yolks and 1 cup milk.

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Egg Yolk

Sugar

Milk

Pour in the flour and salt, and mix just until incorporated. Beat batter with electric mixer for 1 minute, and then blend in vanilla and 1/2 cup milk. Dissolve baking soda in the remaining 1/4 cup milk; stir into the batter quickly and thoroughly.

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Vanilla

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Pour batter into prepared pans.

Bake in the preheated oven until the surface of the cakes spring back lightly when pressed with a finger, about 30 minutes. Cool cakes on wire racks.

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Prepare Seven Minute Frosting, omitting vanilla (see Footnote for link). Tint the frosting a delicate pink with a few drops of food coloring, and add 1/4 cup crushed candy. Frost and fill the cooled cake.

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