Dessert for 16
Chocolate Peppermint Snack Cake
A fudgy chocolate cake bakes with peppermint, then gets covered with buttercream and crushed candy canes.
$0.31per serving $
45 minstart to table
16servings
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups fine blanched almond flour
- 1/2 cup oat flour
- 1/2 cup cacao powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 2/3 cup plain 2% or whole-milk greek yogurt
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp peppermint extract
- 4 tbsp salted butter
- 1/2 cup salted butter
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp peppermint extract
- optional: 1 to 2 drops of red or pink natural food coloring
- 2 tbsp milk of choice
- 3 regular-sized candy canes
Steps
- Heat the oven to 350 F and grease a 9-by-13-inch baking pan.
- Whisk the almond flour, oat flour, cacao powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
- Melt 4 tablespoons of butter, then whisk it with the yogurt, eggs, maple syrup, coconut sugar, vanilla, and peppermint extract.
- Stir the wet mixture into the dry mixture, spread it in the pan, and bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
- Beat the remaining butter with the powdered sugar, vanilla, peppermint extract, and milk until smooth.
- Cool the cake, spread on the frosting, and sprinkle it with crushed candy canes.
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