FOOD
Hot Chocolate Igloo Cake
It's only logical that a marshmallow covered igloo would hide a hot chocolate cake filled with chocolate ganache inside.
FOOD
Hot Chocolate Igloo Cake
It's only logical that a marshmallow covered igloo would hide a hot chocolate cake filled with chocolate ganache inside.
Ingredients
Hot Chocolate Igloo Cake
- 2 chocolate box cake mixes, prepared
- 1 packet hot chocolate mix
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Ganache and Assembly
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 chocolate cake donut
- 3 cups chocolate buttercream
- 3 cups vanilla buttercream
- 8 cups mini marshmallows
Steps
Hot Chocolate Igloo Cake
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Grease an 8-inch glass bowl and two 8-inch cake pans and set aside.
- Pour hot cocoa mix and chocolate chips into the cake mix. Pour into the prepared pans.
- Bake cakes for 35 to 45 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Set aside to cool for 10 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Ganache and Assembly
- Heat the heavy cream and pour it over the dark chocolate chips in a large heatproof bowl.
- Allow mixture to sit for 5 minutes, then mix well until all chocolate is melted.
- Cut a 3-inch round out of the center of one 8-inch cake. Set aside.
- Build the cake by placing the bottom 8-inch round on a cake stand.
- Ice with chocolate buttercream and top with the 8-inch round with a cut out center.
- Level the base of the dome cake and place on top.
- Using a funnel, poke a hole through the top of your igloo.
- Ice the outside of the cake with chocolate buttercream, place a donut on one side as a door, ice it and place in the refrigerator to set.
- Once the cake is set, coat the cake with vanilla buttercream.
- Using mini marshmallows, cover the whole cake in an igloo ice cube pattern.
- Fill with the warm ganache, and serve immediately.