Lethal Mint Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

That's the recipe I made for my birthday cake. Basically a dark chocolate cake, with a thin layer of peppermint buttercream frosting between the layers, and a chocolate ganache on the outside. I love ganache because it gets hard as it cools, so there's this fabulous layer of chocolate on the outside. It was outstanding, if I do say so myself! ;-)

A few pictures of the process -





And of the clean-up (my least favorite part of baking!) -