After Eight Cake

Name: After Eight Cake
Yield: Makes one cake
Ingredients: 10 ounces, bittersweet chocolate, chopped; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons, heavy cream; 1/4 cup, corn syrup; , Salt; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 1 1/4 teaspoons, mint extract; 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces), confectioners' sugar; 2 recipes, Basic Brownies, uncut

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2013

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Cakes

Great American Cakes

We reimagined the well-known after-dinner mint in grand-scale cake form. If you’re like us, you won’t be able to wait until after eight to have a slice.

SERVESMakes one cake

TIME55 minutes, plus 30 minutes chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To transform this wafer-thin after-dinner candy into a grand-scale cake, we started with a double batch of our favorite fudgy brownies. Next, we layered a luscious filling of snowy-white, mint-infused buttercream between the uncut brownie s...

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