Thin Mint {Lover’s} Birthday Cake
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This Thin Mint Cake recipe is for all you chocolate mint lovers out there!
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We love making birthday cakes at home, like Pink Champagne Cake, Birthday Sugar Cookie Cake, and Raspberry Ice Box Cake to name a few favorites!
I’m the type of person when I’m told to do something…..I DO IT!
Earlier this month when we were in Branson, I saw a tweet about a thin mint cake, not just any thin mint cake, but ……. “the greatest cake I have ever made….EVER”
A cake that just screamed “If you have ever enjoyed a thin mint you must try this thin mint cake recipe. You must.”
Ummmm, do I like thin mint? you betchya…….and so does my mom!
Friday was my mom’s birthday and she’s even a bigger fan of thin mints……..so I knew this thin mint cake would be the perfect birthday surprise!
And boy did she LOVE her thin mint cake!
Almost as much as she enjoyed all the attention she got from her granddaughters!
She said it was CRAZY good………..as in make you do crazy things……..
If you have a thin mint lover in your life, you MUST make this Thin Mint Cake for them soon!
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Thin Mint Cake Recipe and Tips
here are some of my notes:
- I baked my cake in 2 – 6″ x 3″ pans = baking time for me was about 56 mins
- I cut my 2 cakes in half with a Wilton Cake Leveler , yielding 4 layers.
- I used my favorite Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix (yes, can you believe it? this recipe calls for a BOX mix!)
- The frosting is Vanilla Buttercream – I tinted it light green with just a bit of gel food color in Leaf Green
- I used this recipe for the Buttercream
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Thin Mint Cake recipe
The perfect blend of moist chocolate, peppermint and vanilla buttercream makes this Thin Mint Cake one will have them coming back for more. Perfect for the chocolate mint lovers.
Ingredients
- 1 box chocolate cake mix (I like Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix)
- 1 cup water
- 1 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 ripe banana
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon peppermint extract
- vanilla buttercream frosting
Instructions
- preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour sides and bottom of cake pans.
- Using a large mixing bowl, combine cake mix and all other ingredients. Mix on low for one minute, scrape the sides of the bowl, then mix on medium high for one minute longer. Pour cake batter in pans.
- Bake following chart in the notes below. Cake is done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- cool in pan(s) on wire rack for at least 15 minutes. Turn cake(s) out onto cooling rack to cool completely before frosting.
- Frost with vanilla buttercream.
Notes
Pan size / Baking Time Guide
- 2 6" pans: 52-56 minutes
- 2 8" pans: 35-38 minutes
- 2 9" pans: 30-33 minutes
- 13 x 9-inch pan: 35-38 minutes
- Bundt pan : 45-50 minutes
- 24 Cupcakes: 19-22 minutes
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Yum! One of my favorite combos. Such a happy cake too!
Omgosh Cheryl! That cake looks amazing and how beautiful are your daughters and mom? Must run in the family 🙂
Cheryl, this cake looks amazing! We have a few thin mint lovers in our family as well. Thank you for sharing. I am visiting you via Mingle Monday.
Liz
That’s one tall and impressive looking cake! Wishing your mom a very Happy Birthday! I love that picture of all of you!
I am loving that cake, but even more so, loving those pics of your mom and girls. What treasures! I bet she was so touched!
Oh I love Thin Mints and I know I’d love this cake. I’ll be making it very soon 🙂
Wow thin mints are my favorite, this looks absolutely amazing. Beautiful photos. Happy belated birthday to your mom!
I just love cakes that are THAT tall!! 🙂 I am sure that your mom loved it!
Look at the beautiful women in your family!!! Oh…and the CAKE! Wow! It sounds delicious and looks amazing! You’re right….if you say it’s a must make, I MUST make it! 😉
The cake is beautiful! You did an amazing job! Love the photos-you have a beautiful family! Happy belated birthday to your mom!
That cake is TALL! Wow!! I love the generation picture too 🙂
Oh, my whole family would go crazy over that cake. Yum!
That cake is adorable! I’m sure it tasted fabulous too. What a cute bunch of ladies!! You all look so much alike. Too cute! Happy Birthday to your mom:-)
YUM! I wish I would have seen this prior to my Bday … Maybe I’ll make it as a Bday Redo cake! See my Birthday blogpost – I mentioned YOU TidyMom! 🙂
It looks BEAUTIFUL! Love it! Love looking at the family resemblance:)
Mmmmm. I’m going to have to make this! It looks and sound sooo yummy! 🙂
I know some Thin Mint lovers that would be in heaven with that cake! Thanks for sharing. And super cute pics of all you- fun to see the 3 generations!
Oh that cake does sound incredibly delicious! You put it together so beautifully, too!
Wow, so green! I like green!
I can’t wait to try this! My husband is the thin mint fan in our house. I’m sure he’ll LOVE it! Thanks for sharing!
OMG!
That cake is so AMAZING!
LOVE how high it is!
I know your sweet mom LOVED it!
Your girls are too CUTE!
And so are you SWEET~GIRLIE!
LOVE this cake!
Greg loves thin mints!
He would PASS~OUT if I made this for his birthday!
xo
OH YUM!! OH Yummy Yumo Yum Yum!!! Thanks for sharing! I can NOT WAIT to make this!! 🙂
Drat, I just bought a cake leveler from Sur la Table… I was going to buy one of the little ones like that, but the sales clerk told me he had one and it was worthless, so he talked me into the big one. It’s big enough for sheet cakes. I’ll have to see what I can do, because this looks too amazing to not make…
Oooh! I LOVE thin mints. I am definitely making this for our next church dinner. If I just make it for us I know I will eat way more than I need to.
Your cake is almost, almost as gorgeous and a fun-filled as your Mom! Happy Birthday to her. I’m sure she was awed by your cake and it’s easy to see that her special day was enjoyed. Thanks for sharing it with us. Best wishes for a fabulous year for her.
Yum! Fabulous job Cheryl! And Happy Birthday to your mom!
absolutely made me smile! I love it love it love it, and I love the group pic!
This looks amazing. It’s such a fun cake too!
Such a fun idea for a cake! I’ve been thinking about it since you first started tweeting about it. I’m afraid if I made it, I’d eat the whole thing.
the most brilliant recipe and it looks as though this was a big hit. How lucky your mum is!
Oh wow. Would it be bad to make this for myself? I love chocolate and mint.
The cake looks delicious and sounds like you had fun to boot! I have a couple of thin mint lovers in my house…thanks for sharing!
You had me at Thin Mint. OMW this looks DELICIOUS and I would score BIG POINTS …like BEST WIFE EVER kinda thing if I made this for hubby!
I just may …for fathers day…oh my wheels are spinning! mwahahaha…
THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!
I can’t wait to try that cake…chocolate and mint are my favorite combo. You did an awesome job, C!! It looks amazing 🙂
I saw this cake… And, now you are just torturing me! I will be making this soon, I’m sure of it.
Cheryl– This cake looks incredibly delicious. I am a long time Thin Mint lover and your post makes me want to run into the kitchen and bake right at this very moment. Too bad it’s 12:25 am! Lovely photos!
I NEED this asap!!! Yummm..thanks for sharing. Pics are beautiful as well 😀
Lina
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YUM! Your cake looks great! My whole family is drooling over this cake! I think I’m going to have to make it up soon!
So making this for fathers day. Thanks so much for sharing and your family is adorable:)
That looks yummy- cute birthday pictures too! I will definitely be trying this.
I’m featuring this on my blog this Friday! Sorry for the wait. This looks SO good!
I don’t how I can avoid making this cake now. I have been thinking about it since the day you posted it and have a dozen of bloggers retweeting and then now making it! I was planning to half the recipe though. There is just two of us eating!
My mom is making one for Feb. 5 (my going-to-be 6 sis’s b-day) right this second!
I don’t know HOW I missed this one!