Flourless Chocolate Mint Layer Cake

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I honey chocolate mint! Do yous honey chocolate mint? I intend I’ve mentioned earlier how much I honey all things mint flavored. And when yous twain it amongst chocolate, oh my. It’s the best!

Even better, this cake is gluten free. I didn’t fifty-fifty guide keep to say yous that because yous would never fifty-fifty know when yous cutting into this luscious demo stopper. The fact that it’s gluten complimentary is surprising. It’s only a completely delicious dessert!

Start past times beating six eggs as well as 1 loving cup of saccharide amongst an electrical mixer at high speed for most five minutes. It should last pale inward color similar this when you’re done. Then yous add together vanilla, cocoa pulverisation as well as a mixture of melted chocolate as well as butter. Mix until combined.

Ingredients

For the Cake
1 loving cup (226g) unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups (255g) semi-sweet chocolate chips (good quality)
6 eggs, room temperature
1 loving cup (210g) sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
3/4 loving cup (75g) cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
For the Mint Buttercream
1 1/2 cups (339g) unsalted butter, softened
6 cups (678g) powdered sugar
6-8 tablespoons heavy cream
1 1/2 teaspoons mint extract
6-7 drops of light-green nutrient coloring
For the Ganache
1 1/2 cups (255g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
6 tablespoons (84g) unsalted butter
Garnish
6-7 Andes mints

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray three (8") cake pans amongst non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
In a medium, microwave rubber bowl, melt the butter as well as chocolate chips on High for ii minutes, stirring every 30 seconds. Set aside.
Place the eggs as well as saccharide inward a large bowl. With an electrical mixer, trounce at high speed for five minutes. Mixture should last pale xanthous as well as doubled inward volume. Add vanilla as well as salt. Sift inward the cocoa. Beat on medium speed until only combined. Stir inward the melted chocolate as well as butter. Pour into the prepared pans. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out amongst approximately crumbs but no longer wet.
For the Buttercream
Beat softened butter on medium speed amongst an electrical or stand upward mixer for three minutes. Add powdered sugar, cream, as well as mint extract amongst the mixer running on low. Increase to medium high speed as well as trounce for three minutes. Add to a greater extent than powdered saccharide if frosting is also sparse or to a greater extent than cream if mixture is also thick. Once it's the desired consistency, add together the nutrient coloring as well as mix until completely combined.
For the Ganache - (Note: brand ganache later yous accept the cake out of the refrigerator)
Melt butter as well as chocolate chips inward the microwave at 50% power, stirring e'er 30 seconds until it's completely melted.
To get together the Cake
Frost each layer of cake amongst mint buttercream. Reserve most 1 1/2 cups of buttercream for the transcend decoration. Then frost the cake amongst the balance of the buttercream. Place inward the fridge for 1-2 hours. After the cake is chilled, pour ganache over the top, letting it autumn over the edges as well as drip downwards the sides. To decorate the top, house remaining buttercream inward a large pastry purse fitted amongst a 1M pastry tip. Pipe 6-7 swirls on transcend of cake. Add Andes mints.
Cake recipe adapted from YammiesNoshery.com