Peppermint Patty Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 3 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 6 small chocolate-covered mint candies, such as peppermint patties,coarsely chopped
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 4 cups cake flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups butter, at room temp
• 2 3/4 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup milk
• 9 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 6 tablespoons butter
• additional chocolate-covered mint candies, cut into pieces,optional

Recipe

• 1 cake: preheat oven to 350; grease& flour 12 cup bundt pan in microwave safe bowl combine chocolate, peppermint candies and milk; heat on hi at 20 sec intervals, stirring occasionally, until melted; reserve combine flour, baking pwdr and salt; at hi speed beat butter with sugar until fluffy, reduce speed to med, beat in eggs 1 at a time and vanilla until combined; alternately beat in flour mixture and milk; beat 1 minute trnasfer 1 cup batter to bowl; stir in reserve melted chocolate mixture; pour 5 cups plain batter into pan; drop half of chocolate batter over batter in pan swirl knife thru batters to marble add remaining plain& choc.
• 2 batters to pan; with knife, marble batters by scooping knife into& up thru batters.
• 3 bake 1 hr to 1 hr 10, or until toothpick comes out clean; cook in pan 30 minutes; remove; cool completely on rack glaze: in micro safe bowl combine chocolate& butter; heat in micro on hi at 10 sec.
• 4 intervals, stirring occasionally, until melted; pour over cake; garnish with candies if desired.