The following recipe is the second of four finalists in our Ultimate Holiday Recipe Contest, which challenged Turkey Hill fans to submit recipes in one of two different categories: recipes using our seasonal Ginger Snap ice cream, or recipes using any other Turkey Hill ice cream flavor. Over the next four days we’ll feature two recipes from each category and everyone will be asked to vote for their favorite beginning on Friday. The winner will receive a one year’s supply of Turkey Hill Ice Cream, and the other three finalists will receive a one month supply of ice cream. Enjoy the recipes!
Today’s finalist in the category of “Any Other Turkey Hill Ice Cream Flavor” was sent to us by Jessie G. of Falmouth, Maine. If you like cake and ice cream (and who doesn’t?), then you’ll love this recipe. The crushed peppermint stick candy adds a nice holiday touch, but if you’re making it after the holidays, you could probably substitute a number of other tasty morsels. If you like this recipe, stop by this Friday and throughout next week to vote for it!
CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT ICE CREAM TORTE
INGREDIENTS
1 ½ cups flour
1 ¼ cups sugar
1 ¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 tsp salt
½ cup cocoa powder
¼ cup shortening
1 cup sour cream
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
4 cups Turkey Hill original vanilla ice cream (or more if needed)
½ cup crushed peppermint stick candy, divided
½ cup mini marshmallows
Bittersweet chocolate sauce for drizzling slices, and whipped cream to decorate (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350. Spray four 8-inch cake pans with non-stick spray. Whisk together first 5 dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Add shortening, sour cream, vanilla and eggs and beat with hand mixer for 2-3 minutes. Divide batter among cake pans, smoothing tops. Bake for 13-15 minutes. Cool in pan, then remove to a cooling rack. Freeze.
When ready to assemble, mix crushed candy (reserving a tbsp for top) into softened ice cream with mini marshmallows. Spread ice cream mixture between layers and just across top (don’t attempt sides). Sprinkle top with reserved crushed candy and freeze. When ready to serve, let sit at room temperature for a few minutes and slice with a thin knife dipped into hot water. This gives the layered look of a torte without the difficulty of slicing cakes horizontally. Freezing the cake layers makes them easy to work with. Serve slices drizzled with bittersweet chocolate sauce and stars of whipped cream!
Tags: chocoate, holiday recipe contest, ice cream, peppermint, torte, turkey hill
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I love your ice cream!
Ooh, thanks for the recipe.
I am not much of a mint ice cream fan, but this torte is vanilla ice cream with peppermint candy. I could tolerate it, send me a slice when it is ready.
Sorry – peppermint is the one flavor I don’t want in ice cream. I’m sure most people would find it delicious though.
Sounds luscious!
Looks like something you would see on the cover of a gourmet food magazine.
Great presentation.
Now that is a piece of cake that looks good, and bet it tastes great//////
I am not a big peppermint fan but my wife and daughters would love this and the chocolate. Such great entries to this contest.
Another great recipe! If it tastes as good as the picture looks, this could be a winner.
Wow!! A great recipe that mixes 2 of my favorite things, pepermint and chocolate. This is going to be a close contest.
I made a ice cream torte like the one in the picture, but I didnot add salt to it. You don’t need to add salt to a recipe if it is going ot be sweet. I love the picture, but not the salt. Just giveme my turkey hill ice cream with out adding anything else.
This tastes even better than it looks here if you drizzle it with home made bittersweet chocolate sauce!
Mmm, sounds like one of my favorite, the creme de menthe brownie, but in cake form!
This recipe would be unbalanced without the salt. Salt is necessary to complement and enhance the flavors. It also balances the sugar – with this small amount of salt, it will not taste salty and I would think without the salt, it would taste flat! Why let that happen to the melding of these lovely, complex flavors?
We should note that we forgot to add the drizzle of chocolate syrup as the recipe suggests, but it was still delicious!
yum
Looks good to me!
This sounds delicious
I like leaving peppermint to its own like candy canes or breath mints.
Chocolate and mint are a holiday favorite (but great any time of year in my opinion!)and this recipe looks delicious. I agree that the small bit of salt is a MUST, even in desserts. My mother is a health nut and often cuts out the salt in desserts which unfortunately leaves her otherwise wonderful cooking tasting two dimensional and flat.
Finalists #1 & #2 creations look absolutely yummy. Thanks for the recipes.
Another great recipe, I take a slice of this one also. Linda
This is going to be one very difficult decision to make. Each recipe so far has been outstanding. I can’t wait to try my favorite TH ice cream with each new recipe that I try!
This recipe is fantastic and really easy to follow. Thanks so much for this deliciousness.
I love chocolate paired with mint. This is a real winner.
Another great recipe! Keep the good things coming Turkey Hill!
Very pretty. Can’t argue with chocolate.
Sounds great–as long as someone else goes to the trouble of making it!
What a great recipe! So can’t wait to try it! Thanks for the yummy easy way of making an ice cream torte!
NS, Oly, Wa
I love peppermint! Now if only I was allowed to eat chocolate….
Peppermint and chocolate – I can’t wait to try this one. My two favorite flavors.
Now this I would Love to try!
Peppermint & Chocolate Make a Fantastic Combo & Taste! 
This is going to be a tough Contest Good Luck to Everyone!!! 
Happy Healthy Holiday’s to you & All Your Loved One’s, Everyone At Turkey Hill!!! 
& On The Site!!! 
My kind of holiday dessert!
PLEASE BRING BACK THE PEPPERMINT ICE CREAM PLEASE!!!!
Looks yummy! I even like the dish!!
This looks double-delicious!! It’s a sure thing that I’ll be serving this for my friends and family – beautiful presentation, too!!
Now that’s my kind of dessert!!!!
this dessert looks delicious, but is it one of those trick desserts where the cook is trying in a clever way to reduce calories by subsituting icecream for icing, thereby eliminating the need for a scoop on the side? hmmmm
This cake is actually not hard to make, and I am a fairly new baker! I have now made it and the recipe is simple to follow (save the cake recipe for other uses). I do recommend the torte with a bittersweet chocolate sauce drizzle, however.
wish I could have a piece. this looks sooooo gooood.
That cake looks really yummy…..
It amazes me what a loyal following this site has. Then again, we’re talking ice cream, and these are devoted ice cream people….
just looking at it is making me hungry
Great holiday treat.
This looks decadent and sounds like it isn’t too hard to make, especially with the “freeze the cake” tip. I love peppermint, marshmallow and chocolate and can’t wait to try this cake!
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This is great for Christmas party!
Looks like a wonderful holiday treat. Chocolate and peppermint–what a combination. From an ice cream lover.
Definitely a winning combination.
This is a dessert I’d love to nibble on, probably couldn’t stop once I got started.
Perfect blend of favorite holiday flavors!
I love Turkey Hill ice cream. I hope that this one wins because it’s delicious. I have tried it.:)
What I like is the flexibility of this. An elegant dessert, just change the ice cream to a different Turkey Hill flavor and it’s a whole new dessert: Choco Mint Chip or the Limited Edition Double Dunker would be my first choices for experimenting!
Sounds great. Easy enough to make.
This looks so good — I would definitely eat it up and lick the plate.
I’d be happy to have someone serve this to me any time.
I have been eating ice cream my whole entire life and therefore I would call myself somewhat of an ice cream EXPERT and as an ice cream expert I would have to say that this sounds absolutely, positively, completely, deliciously YUMMY IN MY TUMMY.
All of the recipes sound great, but this one rocks the house! My minty fresh, chocaholic children and I can’t wait to whip it up this holiday season and devour!
Wow! This sounds like a delicious holiday dessert! It would be perfect paired with “David’s Delectable Hot Dogs” served up semi-hot straight from his S. Irving Street cart! YUM!
Wow this recipe has attracted a creative following. It has been FUN reading these comments!
Mouth watering and not too complicated. I plan to make this often.
Peppermint, Ice Cream, and Chocolate!
Sounds wonderful. Yum!!!!!
We made this cake for my grandmother’s birthday this weekend-it was really good. The cake is moist and the candy canes and marshmallows add some surprise to each bite. This is a great cake!
Thanks for all the comments (friends, family, and folks I do not know!)and for enjoying this fun site with me.
This is the most eye-appealing recipe and it also looks tasty!
This looks and sounds perfect for the holidays – and not too difficult to make either!
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Snowed in and drooling over the peppermint torte! Can’t wait to dig out and head out to the store to buy the ingredients to make this. Thanks for sharing!!
A great choice for this holiday season or any other Bravo!