Peppermint Chiffon Cake with a Chocolate Ganache Glaze

  1. Preheat the oven to 325.
  2. Have ready a 10 inch tube pan, ungreased
  3. Seperate the eggs , whites in 1 large bowl.
  4. Yolks in another bowl.
  5. Have them be at room temperature
  6. Whsk in a bowl the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt until well blended
  7. Add the yolks, canola oil, milk and peppermint extract and beat until smooth about 1 minute
  8. With seperate clean and dry beaters beat egg whites and cream of tarter until firm peaks form
  9. Fold egg whites into yolk/flour mixture un 3 additions until uniform in color
  10. Seperate batter in 3 bowls.
  11. Add red food color to one bowl.
  12. Add green food color to another and keep the third plain
  13. Place a layer of plan bateer in tube pan then aternating spoonfuls of red and green batter
  14. Add remaining plain batter on top
  15. Pull a dull butter knife through batter to make a swirl pattern
  16. Bake cake 55 to 60 minutes just until done and it is golden and appears dry in top.
  17. Don't overcook or cake can become dry
  18. Invert cake and cool before removing from pan
  19. GLAZE CAKE
  20. Heat cream just to a simmer, pour over the semi sweet chocolate.
  21. Let it sit 1 minute then stir until smooth.
  22. Let the glaze stand at room temperature until it becomes slightly thickened,nabput 15 to 20 minutes.
  23. It should be just porarable.
  24. Ladle over top of cake allowing it to drip down sides of cake.
  25. Garnish with the sprinkles while the glaze is wet, so they stick.
  26. Let chocolate set.
  27. Serve with whipped cream

cake flour, sugar, baking powder, canola oil, salt, eggs, milk, cream of tartar, peppermint, heavy whipping cream, semi sweet chocolate

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/340072-peppermint-chiffon-cake-with-a-chocolate-ganache-glaze (may not work)

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