Chocolate Peppermint Cake

1 hours Prep: 20 minutes Cook: 40 minutes

857 calories per serving view nutrition facts

1 cake suggest servings

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Ingredients

1/2	cup	butter	or margarine, softened
2 1/4	cups	brown sugar
3	ounces	chocolate unsweetened	melted
2 1/4	cups	cake flour	sifted
1 1/2	teaspoons	baking soda
1/2	teaspoon	salt
1/2	cup	buttermilk
1	teaspoon	vanilla extract
1	cup	water	boiling
6	packages	mint chocolate wafers

Frosting
2	each	egg whites
1 1/2	cups	sugar
1/8	teaspoon	salt
1/3	cup	water
2	teaspoons	corn syrup, light
1/2	teaspoon	peppermint extract

Directions

Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

Add cooled chocolate, and blend. Sift together flour, soda and salt, and add alternately to chocolate mixture with buttermilk; beat until smooth.

Stir in vanilla and water.

Pour into 3 (8 or 9-inch) layer pans lined on the bottoms with wax paper.

Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F. oven for about 30 minutes.

Remove to racks, and press mints on the 2 bottom layers.

Cool, and spread Peppermint Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.

Frosting: Place all ingredients except peppermint extract in the top of a double boiler.

Put over boiling water, and beat with a rotary beater or electric mixer for 7 minutes, or until mixture will stand in stiff peaks.

Add peppermint extract.

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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 308g

Amount per Serving

Calories 857 32% of calories from fat

	% Daily Value*
Total Fat 30.0g	47%
Saturated Fat 19.0g	94%
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 62mg	21%
Sodium 779mg	32%
Total Carbohydrate 143.0g	48%
Dietary Fiber 3.0g	13%
Sugars 78.0g
Protein 9.0g	18%

Vitamin A	14%		Vitamin C	1%
Calcium	7%		Iron	43%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

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