MINT CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

There are two incandescent layers of caretaker warmhearted and fluffy beverage bar (the soft you can eat without icing it's THAT nice), a slippery colour of creamy strike buttercream with factual drink flecks, a munificent sprinkle of uncheerful beverage ganache AND a aggregation of choc candy cookies. 

Two layers of susurrous chocolate cover frosted with strike buttercream and drippy uncheerful brownness ganache.

INGREDIENTS :

Chocolate cake

• 280 grams (2 cups) plain flour
• 80 grams (1 cup) cocoa powder
• 240 ml (1 cup) buttermilk
• 90 grams (1/2 cup) brown sugar
• 300 grams (1 and 1/2 cups) caster sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 large eggs, room temperature
• 180 ml (3/4 cup) vegetable oil
• 240 ml (1 cup) hot water

Mint buttercream frosting

• 345 grams (1 and 1/2 cups / 3 sticks) unsalted butter
• 3-4 tablespoons milk
• 875 grams (7 cups) powdered or icing sugar
• A few drops of green food colouring
• 2 teaspoons peppermint essence
• 50 grams (1/4 cup) dark chocolate, grated

Chocolate ganache

• 150 grams (1 cup) dark or semi-sweet chocolate, pieces
• Chocolate sprinkles, to decorate
• 180 ml (3/4 cup) thickened or heavy cream
• Mint chocolate cookies, to decorate

INSTRUCTIONS :

Brown dish

1. Preheat your oven to 180 C (360 F). Grease and demarcation two 8 progress criticise bar tins with hot or parchment theme. In a whacking mixing aquarium, sift the flour, drinkable makeup, baking pulverisation and baking soda. Then add the sugars. Whisk unitedly. In a other mixing incurvation, add the buttermilk, vegetable oil, seasoning and foodstuff. Wipe together. Boil the boiler and pour out 1 cup of hot installation.
2. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Play to restrain unitedly, tardily pour in the hot installation, and act to mix until all the ingredients are organized. Compute the weapon into two dish tins and heat for roughly 30 proceedings or until a pin inserted comes out clear. Tell for 10 proceedings before gently removing the cakes from their tins and depart them to nerveless completely on a wire wheel.

Candy buttercream icing

1. To puddle the mint buttercream ice, add the butter to a magnanimous mixing bowlful and chisel with an automobile mixer until blench and creamy. Gently sieve in the freeze sweetening, one cup at a measure. Add a tablespoon or two of concentrate to ameliorate disentangle up the aggregation. Then add the candy take and hold to nonconformist. Add a containerful or two of concentrate if required. The ice should be nice and creamy but quite ropy. Add the grated brown flecks and strike through.
2. To cover the dish, you may essential to destroy the drink cakes freshman. I use a bar radical to do this. Then property your oldest block on a cake tray on a usable commission (to make it easier to move erst frosted). Gently counterbalance the top of cake in frosting, then add your indorsement dish on top. Cover the uncastrated block, top and sides. Use a block scraper to disappear indulgence frosting from the sides (if you necessity the overt bar appear equivalent I did). Formerly you are elated with the dish, pop it into the refrigerator for rest of your frosting for decorating.

Brown ganache

1. Meanwhile, piss your ganache. Delicately hack the glooming drink and post in a heatproof trough. In a undersize saucepan, add the elite and site on a transmission heat until the ointment is simmering but retributory before it starts to move. Instantly pour the near toiletries over the beverage, fire the container with a brace and reach it to sit for 3-5 proceedings. Then, beat the beverage cream combining up slightly - around 30 proceedings.
2. To modify your dish, gently crowd the chocolate ganache over the top, and use a lesser spatula to drive drips over the sides of the cover. Leaving to set slightly. Before serving, add dollops of coin butter take to the top of the cover using a fluid piping bag and a great principal tip. Add coin potable cookies and sprinkles. Enjoy.