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      Title: Chocolate Peppermint Cake
 Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
      Yield: 1 servings
 
    1/2 c  Soft butter or margarine
  2 1/4 c  Packed light brown sugar; 1
           -lb
           Eggs
      3 oz Unsweetened chocolate
           -squares
           ; melted
  2 1/4 c  Sifted cake flour
  1 1/2 ts Baking soda
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 c  Buttermilk
      1 ts Vanilla extract
      1 c  Boiling water
      6 pk Thin chocolate mint wafers
           Peppermint frosting:
      2    Egg whites
  1 1/2 c  Sugar
    1/8 ts Salt
    1/3 c  Water
      2 ts Light corn syrup
    1/2 ts Peppermint extract
 
  Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well
  after each addition. Add cooled chocolate, and blend. Sift
  together flour, soda and salt, and add alternately to
  chocolate mixture with buttermilk; beat until smooth. Stir
  in vanilla and water. Pour into 3 (8 or 9-inch) layer pans
  lined on the bottoms with wax paper.Bake in a preheated
  350` oven for about 30 minutes.  Remove to racks, and press
  mints on the 2 bottom layers.
  Cool, and spread Peppermint Frosting between layers and on
  top and sides of cake. Frosting: Place all ingredients
  except peppermint extract in the top of a double boiler.
  Put over boiling water, and beat with a rotary beater or
  electric mixer for 7 minutes, or until mixture will stand
  in stiff peaks. Add peppermint extract.
 
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