Archive note — March 2022: This Fake Bake records an Aldi £9.94 shop from March 2022. The products, prices and popularity comments below belong to that period and are not current Aldi availability or sales claims.
Safety note: If children help, an adult should handle knives, hot water, the microwave/double boiler and melted chocolate.
Mint Chocolate Chip is more than a flavour to me; it is a teenage Baskin-Robbins memory. When we launched our Mint Choc Chip cake, the flavour got a very enthusiastic response.
For this March 2022 Aldi Fake Bake I bought two chocolate cakes, chocolate frosting, peppermint chocolate balls, mint chocolate bars and chocolate-chip muffins. That particular basket came to £9.94.
I thought this was one of the strongest Fake Bakes in the series. The green-and-chocolate contrast did a lot of the visual work.
Fake Bake Recipe - Mint Choc Chip Cake
Ingredients
2x ready-made round chocolate layer cakes (5" or 6" size)
1 tub ready-made chocolate frosting
Peppermint chocolate balls
Mint chocolate bars
Double chocolate-chip muffins
Method
1. Prepare a cake turntable, angled palette knife, cake scraper, cake board, tablespoon, piping bag with a small star nozzle, knife and spatula.
2. Unbox the cakes, secure one to the board with a little frosting and remove its paper wrapping.
3. Loosen the frosting. Spread some over the first cake, stack the second cake on top, then frost and smooth the outside.
4. Chop some peppermint chocolate balls and press the pieces around the lower part of the cake.
5. The original 2022 batch used a small, unrecorded amount of just-simmering water to loosen melted mint chocolate. That worked for that particular batch, but it is not a validated or reproducible general ratio and different chocolate bars can behave differently. For a repeatable drip, use a tested ganache method compatible with the chocolate you have; our white-chocolate drip guide explains the controlled approach.
6. An adult should core three muffins with a suitable knife or corer. Fill the centres with some of your prepared mint-chocolate filling or drip and chill to set.
7. Spoon the prepared chocolate mixture around the edge of the chilled cake and gently push a few drips over the side.
8. Place the muffins on top, pipe frosting swirls and decorate with mint chocolate pieces.
The original £9.94 result is part of the 2022 Fake Bakes archive, not a promise that the same ingredients cost that today.
If you would rather order one made from scratch, see our current Mint Choc Chip cake.
Lots of love,
Reshmi xoxo
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