Pistachio Mint Chocolate Chip Cake Food

PISTACHIO WHITE CHOCOLATES

Steps:

• For the pistachio white chocolate butter: Combine the pistachios, white chocolate chips, sugar, salt, almond extract and vanilla in a food processor and blend, scraping the sides occasionally, until very creamy and spreadable, about 10 minutes.
• For the white hot chocolate: Gently heat the milk in a saucepan over medium heat and whisk in 4 to 6 tablespoons of the pistachio butter (4 tablespoons for a nice, light, not-too-sweet situation, or 6 for a very rich desserty sitch!). Save the remaining pistachio butter for another use.

MINT-CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Combine sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil, vanilla extract, and peppermint extract; mix using an electric mixer until smooth. Whisk in boiling water. Pour batter into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Let cake cool 10 to 15 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
• While cake is cooling, combine milk and peppermint extract in a small bowl and set aside. Cream butter in a separate bowl using an electric mixer until smooth. Pour in confectioners' sugar and peppermint-milk mixture alternately while continuing to beat. Add green food coloring until frosting reaches desired color. Whip frosting on high until fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Divide between two bowls. Stir chocolate chips into 1/2 the frosting using a spoon. Set mint-chocolate chip frosting aside.
• Frost cooled cake with pure mint frosting without chocolate chips. Place cake in the refrigerator to set.
• Meanwhile, combine chocolate squares and butter in a double boiler; stir until thoroughly melted. Remove from heat. Stir ganache vigorously to a smooth consistency.
• Remove cake from the refrigerator. Cover entire cake with ganache; return to the refrigerator and allow to completely set, about 30 minutes.
• Remove set cake from the refrigerator. Frost sides of cake with mint chocolate chip frosting.

MINT-CHOCOLATE PUDDING CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Beat all ingredients except semi-sweet chocolate and mint candies in large bowl with mixer until blended. Stir in semi-sweet chocolate.
• Pour into 13x9-inch pan sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake 40 to 45 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Place candies in single layer on top of cake. Bake additional 3 min. or until candies begin to melt. Immediately spread melted candies evenly over cake to cover top of cake. Cool completely.

PISTACHIO CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Blend cake mix (dry), pudding (dry), eggs, sour cream, oil, and extract in large mixer bowl on low speed, scraping bowl constantly, until moistened, about 1/2 minute.
• Beat on medium speed, scraping bowl frequently, 3 minutes.
• Toss chocolate chips with a little bit of flour (to help suspend them in the batter).
• Fold chocolate chips into batter.
• Sprinkle top of batter with chocolate jimmies.
• Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake 50 minutes or until wooden toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
• Cool 15 minutes; inverted on wire rack.
• Remove pan; cool completely.

PISTACHIO MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE

Steps:

• "Just mix cake mix, pudding, mint, oil, eggs, and water together in large bowl, add 3/4 of the bage of chips but save some for the icing.".
• "Pour into a greased bunt cake pan and bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
• Take it out of the oven and let it cool completely before trying to turn it out onto a plate".
• "To make the icing just take the left over chips put them in a micro wave safe bowl with a teaspoons of oil and heat for less then a minute or until the choc. is melted.
• Put the melted choc. in a plastic sandwich bag, snip off one of the corners and drizzle the chocolate over the cake.".

PISTACHIO & MILK CHOCOLATE SQUARES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line a 20cm square cake tin with baking parchment. Whizz 125g of the pistachios, 75g of the chocolate and about half the sugar in a food processor until very finely chopped. Tip into a bowl with remaining sugar, butter, eggs, flour and milk, plus a pinch of salt, and beat. Scrape into the tin and bake for 35-45 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool.
• Melt the remaining milk chocolate, stir in the soured cream and cool until spreadable. Trim the edges off the cake, then split in half. Spread a little icing over the base, sandwich the top of sponge back on. Spread remaining icing over the top, roughly chop the remaining pistachios and scatter them over. Cut into 16 squares to serve.