Description
Rich chocolate cake infused with mint chocolate pudding highlights classic dessert flavors. Cool whipped topping and chocolate shavings complete this delightful sweet treat that you’ll savor with pure pleasure.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 package (3.4 oz / 96 g) instant chocolate pudding mix
- 2 cups (480 ml) milk
- 1 container (8 oz / 227 g) whipped topping
- 1 box (15.25 oz / 432 g) chocolate cake mix
- ½ cup (90 g) mini chocolate chips or chocolate shavings
- Eggs (as specified on cake mix box)
- Oil (as specified on cake mix box)
- Water (as specified on cake mix box)
- ½ teaspoon mint extract
- 1 tsp mint extract (optional)
- Green food coloring (optional)
- Crushed mint candies or Andes mints (optional)
Instructions
- Cake Preparation: Preheat oven and prepare cake pan with parchment paper, ensuring smooth release after baking.
- Mix Ingredients: Combine dry and wet ingredients thoroughly, whisking until batter achieves a silky, lump-free consistency.
- Baking Process: Transfer batter to prepared pan, smoothing surface evenly; bake until toothpick emerges clean from center.
- Chocolate Infusion: After cooling slightly, puncture cake with wooden spoon handle, creating strategic channels for chocolate sauce absorption.
- Sauce Saturation: Carefully drizzle chocolate sauce into cake’s perforations, allowing liquid to penetrate deeply and enhance internal moisture.
- Cooling Stage: Refrigerate cake for 30 minutes, enabling sauce to solidify and integrate seamlessly with cake’s structure.
- Mint Cream Topping: Whip cream with mint extract until soft peaks form, creating a light, aromatic covering.
- Decorative Finish: Generously spread mint whipped cream across cake surface, then garnish with crushed chocolate mint candies for textural contrast.
- Serving Recommendation: Chill cake thoroughly to marry flavors and set topping, then slice and serve within 3-4 days for peak deliciousness.
Notes
- Ensure Even Mixing: Gently fold dry and wet ingredients to prevent overmixing, which can lead to a dense, tough cake texture.
- Create Precise Holes: Use a wooden spoon handle with consistent diameter to make uniform holes for even chocolate sauce distribution.
- Control Chocolate Sauce Consistency: Warm chocolate sauce slightly to help it penetrate cake holes more effectively without making the cake soggy.
- Stabilize Whipped Cream: Add a touch of powdered sugar or gelatin to mint whipped cream for better structure and longer-lasting peaks.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 17
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 15 g
- Sodium: 200 mg
- Fat: 5 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 24 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg