Next, you add water or cream to the frosting until you have a nice, smooth consistency. For the peppermint pieces, you can break up peppermints or candy cakes, or buy peppermint pieces. I like a combination of vanilla and peppermint – it makes a more pleasant peppermint flavor. There’s a good bit of powdered sugar in American buttercream and that bit of salt doesn’t at all make the butter salty, it just cuts down on the sweet a bit.Īdded to the frosting is peppermint and vanilla extract and broken peppermint pieces. If you use all butter, you might want to do half salted, half unsalted – or just use unsalted and add your own salt. Since I only use half butter, I usually use salted butter. But if you aren’t into using shortening, or don’t have access to it, feel free to use all butter in the frosting. I substitute part of the butter for shortening, because I like the stability that it gives the frosting, plus I don’t necessarily have to refrigerate it that way and I much prefer not refrigerating my cakes. The base of the frosting is American buttercream – which is basically butter and powdered sugar. Bake the cakes and then you’re ready for the frosting! You should end up with a lovely, smooth better. Next are the egg whites, which also lend a very soft cake.įrom there you will alternate adding the flour and other dry ingredients and the milk and water. Sour cream lends a wonderful bit of flavor and adds so much moisture to a cake.

I say this a lot but don’t skimp on the creaming time! The better the butter and sugar are creamed together, the fluffier your cake! Added to the butter and sugar are the peppermint extract and sour cream. To start off making the cake layers, you’ll want to cream the butter and sugar. And it does not disappoint – I’m loving the peppermint flavor! The ice cream sparked me wanting to make this cake.

This cake is definitely all her!Įven though my mom is clearly a peppermint fan, peppermint is one of those flavors that I tend to forget how good it is until I have it again. Shortly after that, I made this cake and thought of her. We dug in and had a great time and remembered at all her ice cream eating days. Well recently, we were sitting in the kitchen hanging out one evening and chatting and she walked over to the freezer, pulled out a carton of peppermint chip ice cream and handed me a spoon. She basically digs craters all over the ice cream getting the good parts. She’s going to kill me for telling you this, but she has a very funny way of eating ice cream because she likes to eat all the soft parts as it begins to melt. I have quite a few memories of her pulling out a carton of ice cream and a spoon and going to town. We definitely gave her the “Best Mom Ever Award” that day.įast forward several years and I remember her thing was ice cream. One year when my brother and I were in elementary school, for her birthday she plunked a cake down right in front of us and brought over three forks. One of the things I love about my mom is she knows how to eat some dessert.

Peppermint baking chips