This past weekend was Cake4Kids' 3rd annual CakeOff4Kids event. Because a few of the bakers that signed up to bake in the contest dropped out at the last minute, I volunteered to bake a cake for the event. The category I was "entered" in was the Ultimate Chocolate category. I went with my go to chocolate cake baked with chopped Andes Mints, filling it with ganache, peppermint butter cream frosting, and more crushed Andes Mints.
I searched high and low for the Andes baking chips that I have used often in my Best Brownies with no such luck. So, I enlisted the husband to unwrap two boxes of Andes Mints and I manually chopped them to bits.
The contest required two cakes, one for the judges and one for the guests. For the judging cake, I wanted to make it taste as "chocolately" as possible. So, in addition to filling the cake with ganache and peppermint butter cream frosting, I coated the outside of the cake in the same. For the tasting cake, I went with the classic ganache pour with all of the leftover ganache.
I didn't place in my category but I had a small sample of the cake and this combination definitely jumped up my list of favorite cakes. I can't wait to replicate it for the Holidays.
