Mint Chocolate Cake | Sanjeev Kapoor Khazana

Freshly baked chocolate cake cut into squares and topped with mint icing.

MINT AND CHOCOLATE CAKE

Ingredients

100 grams after dinner chocolate mints
125 grams dark chocolate, roughly chopped
200 grams refined flour
150 grams butter
150 grams castor sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ cup milk
Icing
½ cup chopped mint leaves
250 grams icing sugar
100 grams butter
Juice of ½ lemon

Method

1. Preheat oven at 180ºC. Line a baking tin with a parchment paper.
2. Cream together butter and castor sugar in a bowl.
3. Take dark chocolate and milk in a bowl and melt on double boiler.
4. Add eggs to the butter-cream mixture and whisk well. Add melted chocolate-milk mixture and whisk well. Roughly chop chocolate mints, add and whisk well.
5. Sieve flour and baking powder and fold gently into a smooth batter.
6. Pour the batter in the greased tin, tap and put the tin on a baking tray. Place the baking tray in preheated oven and bake for 40-45 minutes.Remove from heat, cool and demould.
7. To prepare mint icing, blend together mint leaves and 2 tablespoons icing sugar. Add remaining icing sugar, butter and lemon juice and blend again till well combined.
8. Spread the icing over the cake evenly.
9. Cut in squares and serve.

Preparation Time:15-20 minutes
Cooking Time:45-50 minutes

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