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Magical Mushroom Cake

Magical Mushroom Cake is a playful chocolate layer cake with buttercream mushrooms, colorful grass, and flowers, enriched with mint slice cookies for texture—perfect for birthdays or whimsical celebrations.
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Author: Sandra Myers

Ingredients

For the Cake

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 ¼ cups caster sugar
  • ½ cup cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp bicarb soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 ½ cups unsalted butter
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 ½ cups milk
  • 2 cups chopped mint slice cookies

For the Frosting and Decorations

  • Buttercream frosting for mushrooms and cake layers
  • Red and white food gel for mushroom tops
  • Green blue, and purple food gel (for grass layers)
  • Blue pink, yellow, orange food gel (for flowers)
  • 2 ½ cups dark chocolate melted (chocolate bark)
  • 1 cup white chocolate + ½ cup dark chocolate melted together (chocolate bark)

Instructions

  • Make mushrooms: color frosting, pipe stalks and caps, chill, trim, and assemble.
  • Prepare chocolate bark: layer melted chocolate, let set, and cut.
  • Bake cake layers: mix batter, bake six layers, and cool.
  • Layer cake: spread frosting and cookies between layers, crumb coat, chill.
  • Decorate: frost, add chocolate bark, pipe grass and flowers, place mushrooms on top.