This mint chocolate cake is easy to make using a box white cake mix. Make something simple into something that tastes and looks amazing. If you have kids they will get a kick out of the surprising green inside. The green makes it a super fun cake to make for St. Patty’s day. Another fun green cake to make is a matcha cake.
Mint Chocolate Cake Recipe
Makes 1 – 9 inch 3 layered cake
Ingredients:
2 boxes of white cake mix
6 large egg whites
2 C water
1 C Canola oil
1 tbsp pure mint chocolate chips
2-4 drops of mint green food coloring
1 ½ C semi sweet chocolate chips
3 9 inch round cake pans
Pam baking spray
Chocolate frosting:
2 C unsalted butter, softened
5 C powdered sugar
½ C Hershey Cocoa Powder
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
3-6 TBSP heavy whipping cream
1 Large piping bags with star tip
1 mini angled spatula
2 C mini chocolate
1 package of waffle cone bowls, broken into pieces
1 8oz jar of Maraschino cherries
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray the 3 cake pans with pam baking spray
Combine all cake ingredients into a standing mixer or large mixing
bowl and beat until combined
Mix in the semi sweet chocolate chips and mint food coloring
Divide the batter between the 3 pans and bake in the oven for 28-32
minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean
Allow to cool completely before moving onto the cake board
Using a cake leveler, remove the dome from the cakes to make even
Using a standing mixer, beat together the butter, powdered sugar,
cocoa powder, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream until combined, smooth
and stiff with peaks
Scoop ½ C of frosting into the piping bag
Building the cake directions
Using 1 cake layer on the cake board, scoop 1 C of frosting onto the
top of the cake and spread evenly
Place the second layer of cake on top of the first layer of frosting.
Scoop another 1 C of frosting onto the second layer of cake and spread
evenly.
Place the last layer of cake on top
Frost entire cake with the remaining chocolate frosting
Scoop a handful of mini chocolate chips onto the bottom of the cake
Pipe dollops of chocolate frosting around the top
Place a broken piece of the waffle cone behind the frosting dollop
Place a cherrie into the center of the frosting dollop
Sprinkle some mini chocolate chips around the top of the cake
Cut and enjoy!
Mint Chocolate Cake
A sweet minty treat.
Ingredients
- 2 boxes of white cake mix
- 6 large egg whites
- 2 C water
- 1 C Canola oil
- 1 tbsp pure mint chocolate chips
- 2-4 drops of mint green food coloring
- 1 ½ C semi sweet chocolate chips
- 3 9 inch round cake pans
- 3 10 inch round cake board
- Pam baking spray
- 2 C unsalted butter, softened
- 5 C powdered sugar
- ½ C Hershey Cocoa Powder
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3-6 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- 1 Large piping bags with star tip
- 1 mini angled spatula
- 2 C mini chocolate
- 1 package of waffle cone bowls, broken into pieces
- 1 8oz jar of Maraschino cherries
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray the 3 cake pans with pam baking spray
Combine all cake ingredients into a standing mixer or large mixing
bowl and beat until combined
Mix in the semi sweet chocolate chips and mint food coloring
Divide the batter between the 3 pans and bake in the oven for 28-32
minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean
Allow to cool completely before moving onto the cake board
Using a cake leveler, remove the dome from the cakes to make even
Using a standing mixer, beat together the butter, powdered sugar,
cocoa powder, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream until combined, smooth
and stiff with peaks
Scoop ½ C of frosting into the piping bag
Building the cake directions
Using 1 cake layer on the cake board, scoop 1 C of frosting onto the
top of the cake and spread evenly
Place the second layer of cake on top of the first layer of frosting.
Scoop another 1 C of frosting onto the second layer of cake and spread
evenly.
Place the last layer of cake on top
Frost entire cake with the remaining chocolate frosting
Scoop a handful of mini chocolate chips onto the bottom of the cake
Pipe dollops of chocolate frosting around the top
Place a broken piece of the waffle cone behind the frosting dollop
Place a cherrie into the center of the frosting dollop
Sprinkle some mini chocolate chips around the top of the cake
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Why would you ruin this cake with maraschino cherries? Cherries and mint are not friends. And as decor they look cheap and garish.
I love maraschino cherries. They remind me of the cakes my grandmother made for my birthdays when I was little. Thanks for your feedback.