Green Frog Gifts: fudge

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Irish - Green Mint Chocolate Cake

Green Frog Gifts loves anything green -- and this green mint chocolate cake is a great dessert to serve for St. Patrick's Day. Simple as pie - well simple as cake.

Prepare cake mix as directed. Substitute 1/4 cup of Creme de Menthe for 1/4 cup of the required water. Add the oil and eggs as directed.

Optional: If you like a chocolately chunk component (and I do). Take 3 Hershey's chocolate bars and chop them up. Put into the batter and stir.

Bake and cool the cake.

Now for the topping - once the cake has cooled you will want to spread on the hot fudge layer. Since the fudge is so thick I usually warm it in the microwave before spreading on the cake.
It'll still be warm on the cake so I stick the entire cake with the fudge layer into the freezer while I flavor the whipped topping.

I add a tablespoon or so of Creme deMenthe to the whipped topping and stir. Add green food coloring if you want a deeper shade of green.

Cut the Andes mints into random chunks.

Spread the green Creme deMenthe flavored whipped topping on the cake over the fudge layer. Randomly drop the Andes mints onto the top of the cake.

Serve with ice cream.

Enjoy every crumb.

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Cite this blog post:
McElmeel, Sharron. (2021, March 6). Irish - Green Mint Chocolate Cake. Green Frog Gifts (blog). https://bit.ly/GFG-cake

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Sunday, December 1, 2019

Strawberries - Recipes and Books

Three of our favorite classic book titles featuring strawberries - bring memories of two of our favorite recipes for enjoying strawberries - with fruit dip and other fruit, and along side of chocolate (in this case fudgy fudge), and add a favorite gingerbread cookie recipe (delicious with strawberries and ice cream).

Strawberry etc. Fruit Dip (click on images for full sized copies)