The recipe for this cake came about completely by accident, but it was an instant hit! Maddie came home a month or so ago needing to take a cake to school the next day. Since it was 6 at night, dinner wasn't made and I did not want a trip to the floor, I scrounged around and realized I had the ingredients for chocolate chip pound cake. The recipe called for a box of instant chocolate or vanilla pudding. I didn't have just regular pudding but I had a box of magic color changing pudding that Jason's mom had brought months ago- it had gotten pushed to the back of the cabinet and forgotten but I found it in my hunt for ingredients. So I figured why not (knowing that a room full of hungry 5th graders were not going to be hard to impress especially if chocolate is involved!). Anyway, we used the pudding, and WOW- that batter turned the most amazing (and by amazing I mean VERY bright and sort of obnoxious...) shade of green. Maddie was a little distressed that the cake would seem weird so I scrounged around in my cabinets again and decided that by adding a bit of peppermint extract, the green color would fit right in and voila, mint chocolate chip pound cake! This time, I stuck with the regular recipe (using the regular box of vanilla pudding) and just used a few drops of green food coloring along with it. I also went online and found a recipe for peppermint glaze which finished it off very nicely!
Mint Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
1 box yellow cake mix (I have yet to use yellow- the first time all the store had was coconut and this last time, it was white chocolate...)
1/2 cup sugar
1 box instant vanilla pudding
2/3 cup water
3/4 cup oil
4 eggs
8 oz sour cream (for those in the ME- I used labneh which worked great)
6 oz chocolate chips (I chunked up a semi sweet chocolate bar)
1/2 tsp peppermint extract
Combine first 6 ingredients. Mix well. Stir in sour cream, chocolate and extract. Bake 350 for 1 hour. Cool in pan 10 minutes then remove from pan and cool completely. Top with peppermint glaze
Peppermint Glaze
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tsp peppermint extract
hot water
Combine sugar and extract. Add hot water until desired consistency reached.
