Rich chocolate mint cake

 
                          Rich Chocolate Mint Cake
 
 Recipe By     : Sarah Jane Cassill 
 Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
 Categories    : Cakes
 
   Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
 --------  ------------  --------------------------------
      1/2  cup           butter
    2      cups          sugar
    4                    egg
    4      ounces        baking chocolate
    1      cup           flour
      1/2  teaspoon      salt
      2/3  cup           milk
    3      teaspoons     vanilla
    1      teaspoon      dried mint -- finely crumbled
    1      cup           chopped nuts
 
 Preheat oven to 375.  Cream butter and sugar, Beat in eggs one at a time.
 Melt chocolate in a double boiler.  Stir into butter and egg mixture.  Sift
 flour with salt.  Add flour alternately with milk.  When the batter is
 smooth, stir in vanilla, mint and nuts.  Bake in 8 inch square cake pan for
 50 minutes.
 
 Serve chilled, plain or iced with a simple chocolate glace decorated with
 sugared mint leaves.  Sugar leaves by taking leaves flushed with cold
 water, dipping them in eggs whites and rolling them in fine granulated
 sugar.  Dry on waxed paper.
 
 
 
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