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1. How to Make a Mint Chocolate Drip Cake
Learn how to make a yummy mint chocolate drip cake with Paul Bradford.
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3. Pro Lesson
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Mint Chocolate Drip Cake Tutorial
Learn how to make a Mint Chocolate Drip Cake with the multi-award winning Paul Bradford!
This recipe will bake 2x 8″ round cakes @ 3″ depth or as Paul bakes, 4x 8″ round cakes @ 1.5″ depth. If you are looking for a different size bake then select Mint Chocolate Drip cake from our recipe RE-CALCULATOR.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to…
- Make mint chocolate buttercream & ganache
- Create a drip effect
- Bake a mint flavoured cake
- Smooth your buttercream for a perfect finish
- and much, much more
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Mint Choc Drip Cake downloadable tools and ingredients
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This recipe will bake 2x 8″ round cakes @ 3″ depth or as Paul bakes 4x 8″ round cakes @ 1.5″ depth
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- 3 packets of poppets cut into quarters
- 500g unsalted butter
- 700g caster sugar
- 6 eggs
- 3 tsp vanilla
- 700ml milk
- 600g plain flour
- 170g cocoa powder
- 3 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp salt
Oven 180 degrees Celsius
Buttercream
- 750g unsalted butter
- 1.5kg icing sugar
- 100g mint chocolate biscuit
- Green food colouring gel – rainbow dust leaf green pro gel
*when adding the biscuit make sure to leave it on long enough to break into small bits
Ganache
- 800g aero peppermint chocolate
- 350ml Cream
- Mixer
- Bowl
- Sieve
- Scales
- Large & small scraper
- Palette knife
Paul Bradford
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That looks sooooo yummmmmmyyyyyyyyy lol quick question…….is it caster sugar or granulated sugar ?
Caster sugar for this one. Thanks for the Question, I’ve updated the notes to save any further confusion. Good luck!
Hi will you be adding this recipe to the cake calculator ?
Sorry for the delay. That’s the Mint Choc cake added to the Cake Recipe re-sizing calculator….https://www.cakeflix.com/cake-size-calculator
What are the other alternatives to poppets we just dont have them in Leeds anymore
Paul suggests mint chocolate matchmakers would be a great replacement and perhaps even better!
Hello. How thick are your cake layers usually for wedding cake? 1″ or 2″
The cakes baked in this tutorial are around 1.5″ depth. Usually a wedding cake tier would be considered at around 3″, but some can be twice the depth, just depending on the design.
hi there im from New Zealand and we don’t have poppets. is there a substitute I can use?
I’m not too familiar with what’s available, but Paul suggests just increasing the amount of matchmakers to replace the poppets. They just melt in to enhance the flavour. It’s a delicious cake 🙂
hi there again. So I’m about to smash this cake out, I am from New Zealand so finding your candy here can be challenging. I managed to find the club biscuits in some strange store that stocks everything under the sun, I haven’t been able to find poppets but have found match makers again in a strange store, but have found them. Now the recipe calls for 3 x packets of poppets that are 154g a pack, the matchmakers are 120g a packet. Shall I just throw 3 x packs of the matchmakers in? I am all about winging stuff but I really would like to get this cake to the exact flavour that you get it to as it looks epic. again hunting down mint aero was a mission but I did it.
thanks
kerstyn
hi Kerstyn, the mint poppets are just to give the chocolate some extra flavouring. 3 packets of matchmakers will do exactly the same job, giving the chocolate a light mint taste. Hope the bake goes well after all your efforts. Good luck!
Hi David
Nothing in the downloadable file.
The tools and ingredients (T&I) link is downloading correctly for me. Can you let me know the link that isn’t working and I’ll get it fixed asap?
If the T&I link isn’t working for you please let me know the device and software version that you are using to allow me to replicate the issue at my end.
Hi David
This is the link – https://www.cakeflix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Drip.docx
I am using a MacPro – macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6
Hope this is what you were asking for.
Thank you
That’s the link fixed now. The original was linked to a Word doc which is why it wouldn’t open on Mac.
I’ve switched it over to a pdf document so you should be able to open and view it on teh course page or via the link below…
https://www.cakeflix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Drip-9.pdf
Thank you David, link works.
C