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Deep Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cake

No oven or pressure cooker required for this recipe.

Recipe Summary Deep Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cake

This is a cake that children love.

Ingredients | Dark Chocolate Cake Eggless

2 cups sifted cake flour

¾ teaspoon salt

4 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate

¼ cup butter

2 cups white sugar

2 egg yolks

1 ¾ cups milk, divided

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon baking soda

Seven-Minute Frosting

½ cup crushed peppermint hard candies

3 drops red food coloring

Directions

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

Sift together the cake flour and salt.

Melt chocolate and butter together in a double boiler. Turn into mixing bowl, and cool to room temperature; this mixture must be cool. Mix in the sugar. Blend in egg yolks and 1 cup 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. 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.

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. Garnish with bits of crushed candy.

Click here for the Seven Minute Frosting recipe.

This cake can also be baked in a 13x9x2-inch pan for about 45 minutes, or in two 9x9x2-inch square pans for about 30 minutes.

The nutrition data for this recipe does not include the frosting ingredients. The actual amount of the frosting consumed will vary.

Info | Dark Chocolate Cake Eggless

prep: 30 mins cook: 30 mins additional: 1 hr 30 mins total: 2 hrs 30 mins Servings: 12 Yield: 1 9-inch layer cake

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