American
Cuisine
Chocolate cake
ingredients:
- 1 cup cocoa
powder.
- 1 ½ cup flour.
- ½ tsp baking
powder.
- ¼ tsp salt.
- 1 cup butter.
- 2 ¼ cup sugar.
- 5 eggs.
- 1 cup
buttermilk.
- 1 tsp vanilla.
Mint
buttercream frosting ingredients:
- 6 egg whites.
- 1 ½ cup
sugar.
- 2 cups
powdered sugar.
- ½ cup
shortening.
- 1 cup
unsalted butter.
- 1 tbsp
vanilla.
- 2 to 3 tbsp
mint extract based on taste.
- 3 tbsp green
food colouring.
Chocolate
ganache ingredients:
- 1 cup chocolate
chips.
- ½ cup
whipping cream.
Chocolate cake
directions:
- Preheat the
oven to 350℉.
- Butter two 8
inch x 2 inch round cake pans. Line with parchment paper, then butter and flour
the pans.
- Cream
together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
- Beat in the
eggs, one at a time. Scrape down the bowl as you go.
- Sift the dry
ingredients salt into the mixture.
- Beat in the
dry ingredients and the buttermilk, alternating the two.
- Pour the
batter into the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until a cake
tester comes out clean.
- Cool in the
pans for 30 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack and cool completely.
Mint
buttercream frosting directions:
- Combine sugar
and egg whites in a heat proof bowl and set it over simmering water.
- Heat it until
the sugars dissolve and the mixture reaches 115 degrees F.
- It will
become foamy on top. Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, whisk until stiff
peaks.
- Sift the
powdered sugar to remove any lumps.
- Whisk in the
powdered sugar to egg white mixture.
- Add butter
and shortening all at once and whip until stiff.
- Add mint
extract and green food colouring as needed.
Chocolate
ganache directions:
- Melt together
and refrigerate until needed.
- Assemble with
a layer of cake, a layer of frosting and chopped up mint chocolates.
- Heat the
ganache to a pour-able consistency in the microwave.
- Using a
spatula, help spread it to the sides and let it drop down over a cooling rack
set on top of a cookie sheet.