Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, mint-choc christmas cake #festivedish. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mint-choc Christmas cake #festivedish is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Mint-choc Christmas cake #festivedish is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mint-choc christmas cake #festivedish using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mint-choc Christmas cake #festivedish:
- Take 200 g margarine/butter
- Make ready 1 cup sugar (reduce or add as preferred)
- Get 2 cups Self rising flour
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Mint essence
- Make ready 80 g Mint chocolate (Cadbury’s packet)
- Take 2 eggs
- Prepare 5 tablespoons cocoa powder
- Make ready 2/3 cups milk
- Get 1 cup strong black coffee
- Make ready 1 tablespoon vanilla essence
- Make ready For the icing glaze
- Get 2 cups icing sugar
- Make ready 1/2 cup lemon juice/ orange juice
- Get Zest of lemon/ orange
- Take Decorations
- Make ready 2 packets skittles
- Prepare 1 packet Oreo biscuits
Steps to make Mint-choc Christmas cake #festivedish:
- Pre-heat oven at 180 degrees. Prepare baking tin or sufuria
- First melt the chocolate in a microwave until smooth
- In a large bowl, beat the margarine/butter with sugar until pale and well mixed
- Add the eggs slowly, one at a time, as you continue beating the butter- sugar mixture
- Add half of the melted chocolate into the mixture and gently mix using a mwiko preferably (keep the other half for the wet ingredients)
- Sift the flour and cocoa powder powder together. Then alternatively add in the flour and the milk to the previous mixture starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix gently with every addition.
- Add in the coffee (coffee is added to enhance the chocolate flavor) gently and steadily, add the other half of the melted chocolate, the mint essence and vanilla essence. Be careful not to over beat the cake batter.
- Put the cake batter into your prepared baking tin or sufuria and bake for 45 minutes or until toothpick or knife comes out clear. Let it cool completely.
- For the icing glaze, mix the icing sugar and the lemon juice and whisk until soft and well blended. Add in the zest for extra zing😋😋
- After cake cooling, pour the icing glaze in preferred fashion over the cake and decorate with the skittles as desired.
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