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Old-Fashioned Cocoa Mint Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2/3 cup butter
1 2/3 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 cups flour
2/3 cup Hershey's Cocoa
1 1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 1/3 cups milk
1/2 cup crushed peppermint candy
Cocoa Peppermint Icing:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup Hershey's Cocoa
3 2/3 cups powdered sugar
7 T. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 T. crushed peppermint candy
Directions:
Directions:
Cream butter, sugar and eggs until fluffy; and beat vigorously three minutes (high speed of mixer). Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; add alternately with milk to creamed mixture. Blend in crushed candy. Pour batter into two greased and floured 9-inch cake pans. Bake in a moderate oven 350º for 35 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans.
Ice cake with Cocoa Peppermint Icing made this way:
Melt the butter in a saucepan; add the cocoa and heat one minute or until smooth--stirring constantly. Alternately add sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Blend in vanilla and peppermint candy. Makes 2 1/4 cups icing or enough for an 8- or 9-inch cake.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
I had fun making this cake when I was looking for a recipe to use up the leftover Christmas candy canes. We loved it. Its source is from a Hershey's 1930 cookbook.

 

 

 

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