Butter Mint Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3 cups flour
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon mint extract
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 2 cups softened butter or 2 cups margarine
• 1 cup milk or 1 cup water
• 1 package vanilla frosting
• 1 package butter mint decorative candies
• 4 drops yellow food coloring
• 2 packages cream cheese
• 1 package food coloring
• 1 cup whipped topping
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons mint extract

Recipe

• 1 cake: preheat oven to 350.
• 2 combine first four ingredients; mix at medium speed.
• 3 set aside.
• 4 in a medium bowl, combine sour cream and butter.
• 5 manually beat until fluffy.
• 6 pour sour cream mixture into batter, and then beat at low speed until fluffy.
• 7 add milk (or water) and beat mixture at high until batter is smooth.
• 8 pour batter in two 8" or 9" baking pans.
• 9 bake for at least 45-60 minutes.
• 10 when done, cool cake for 25 minutes at room temperature.
• 11 set cake aside for frosting and decoration.
• 12 frosting: in a blender, crush butter mint candies until they are of a powdery consistency.
• 13 then add the frosting.
• 14 blend at high speed until frosting is creamy.
• 15 then pour frosting into a medium sized pour and frost cake.
• 16 after frosting, refrigerate cake.
• 17 icing: in a large bowl, mix ingredients, except for the food color at high speed until icing is fluffy.
• 18 use as much and whatever food coloring is desired for decoration.
• 19 use molds or icing bags to decorate cake.
• 20 refrigerate cake.