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Grasshopper Green Ombre Cake

Published: Mar 12, 2014 · Recipe by: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

Are you looking to make something special for St. Patrick’s Day?

Try making this beautiful Grasshopper Green Ombre Cake and show off your baking skills!

This Grasshopper Green Ombre Cake has layers of Creme de Menthe cake and chocolate ganache decorated with green ombre frosting.

How would you like a big bite of Creme de Menthe-infused cake layered with rich and creamy dark chocolate ganache all covered in vanilla frosting?

It’s refreshing, decadent, and boozy!

When I get together with my friends for a girl’s night, I’m always asked to bring a dessert. A group is gathering this weekend so I’ve been busy in the kitchen baking up something fun for our party.

With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, I thought it would be fun to make a trendy dessert.

Layers of Creme de Menthe Cake and creamy chocolate ganache are covered in ombre stripes of green and white frosting.

Ombre cakes are all the rage right now, so I figured I’d try my hand at making a green one.

When I mixed up my cake batter, I added a few splashes of Creme de Menthe. The liquor did double duty; it added a lovely mint flavor and a nice green color to my cake.

I love mint with chocolate, so I filled my cake layers with a rich and creamy chocolate ganache.

When frosting the outside of my cake I chose to pipe on little stars using a pastry tip. It made creating the ombre effect with the green frosting super easy.

This cake would make a nice dessert for St. Patrick’s Day or for the start of spring.

Printable Recipe

Green ombre cake with layers of creme de menthe cake and chocolate frosting.
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Creme de Menthe Green Ombre Cake
Prep Time
1 hr
 

Creme de Menthe cake with layers of chocolate ganache are frosted with various shades of green frosting in an ombre pattern.

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake, chocolate ganache, frosting
Servings: 12
Author: Beth
Ingredients
CAKE
  • 1 box Betty Crocker White Cake Mix
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/4 cup creme de menthe
  • 3 egg whites
  • 1/3 cup oil
  • green food coloring
CHOCOLATE GANACHE
  • 12 ounces dark chocolate, finely chopped
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
FROSTING
  • 4-5 cups white frosting
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Blend the cake mix, water, Creme de Menthe, eggs, and oil together.
    Add 1/4 cup of Creme de Menthe to a Betty Crocker White Cake mix.
  3. Beat on high speed for two minutes.
  4. Divide the batter into four bowls and make them various shades of green.
  5. Spray four 8-inch baking pans with non-stick spray.

  6. Pour the batter into the pans. Tap them several times on the counter to remove air bubbles. This will keep your cakes nice and level while baking.
    Fill round cake pans with green cake batter.
  7. Bake the cakes for 15-17 minutes then set them on a cooling rack until completely cooled.
    baked green Creme de Menthe cakes
CHOCOLATE GANACHE
  1. Pour the finely chopped chocolate into a shallow bowl.
  2. Pour the heavy whipping cream and powdered sugar into a small saucepan.
  3. Set the pan over medium heat.
  4. Heat the cream until it just begins to bubble.
  5. Pour it over the chocolate, coving it completely.
  6. Let the chocolate and cream rest for 3 minutes.
  7. Then start stirring in the center of the bowl until the chocolate and cream come together.
  8. Continue making the circle bigger and stir until just combined.
  9. Set the ganache aside to cool just until it's thick enough to spread onto the cake.
  10. Stack your cakes with the darkest green at the bottom and spread some chocolate ganache filling in between each layer.
FROSTING
  1. Crumb coat your cake with some white frosting.
    crumb coat the round cake with a thin layer of white frosting
  2. Divide the remaining frosting into 4-6 bowls then color the frosting various shades of green.

  3. Fit six pastry bags with small star decorating tips and fill the bags with white and green frosting.

  4. Pipe rows of stars around the cake starting with the darkest green at the bottom and going up to white at the top.
  5. Continue to pipe rows of stars around the top of the cake, starting with the lightest color on the outside and the darkest green in the center.
  6. Place the cake on a serving platter, and pipe a nice border around the edge.
    cake decorated with green ombre frosting piped using a star tip

Are you looking to make something special for St. Patricks Day? Try making this beautiful Grasshopper Green Ombre Cake and show off your baking skills!

 

If you’re looking for more St. Patrick’s Day food, use the link and check out these awesome recipes.

Fun St. Patrick's Day Recipes and Food Crafts

About the Author, Beth Jackson Klosterboer

Beth is a professional chocolatier, recipe developer, event planner, and cookbook author who loves to make fun food.

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Comments

  1. Cynthia Jones

    March 29, 2021 at 2:04 pm

    Thank you so much! I really wanted to make this cake, it looks so good 🙂

    Reply
    • Beth

      March 29, 2021 at 3:56 pm

      You are welcome. Thanks for letting me know the recipe link no longer worked! I hope you enjoy the cake.

      Reply
  2. Cynthia Jones

    March 28, 2021 at 3:27 am

    Hi! The link to the recipe and instructions doesn’t work. It takes me to a directory of cakes on the tablespoon site. This looks very lovely and it must have taken forever to pipe all that icing on 🙂

    Reply
    • Beth

      March 28, 2021 at 8:01 pm

      Hi Cynthia,

      Sorry about that. Tablespoon has removed some of the recipes from their website. I went ahead and added the recipe to the post, so you can print it out from here. Enjoy!

      Reply
  3. Sweet Silly Sara

    March 25, 2014 at 3:48 am

    I'm in some serious need of practice with my piping skills, your Ombre Cake is BEAUTIFUL! Thanks for linking it up at Tell it To Me Tuesday!

    Reply
  4. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

    March 20, 2014 at 3:07 pm

    So pretty…love this cake Beth!!

    Reply
  5. Shey divine

    March 18, 2014 at 1:22 am

    Looks sooo lovely ..
    Popped from Mix it up monday

    Reply
    • beth

      March 18, 2014 at 1:45 am

      Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply
  6. Lisa FlourMeWithLove

    March 17, 2014 at 12:42 pm

    This is beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing at Mix it up Monday 🙂

    Reply
    • beth

      March 18, 2014 at 1:46 am

      Thanks, Lisa. I always enjoy linking up to your party:)

      Reply
  7. Blair Lonergan

    March 17, 2014 at 1:09 am

    This is gorgeous. You are so talented! My family would love it if I could pull this off!

    Reply
    • beth

      March 17, 2014 at 2:39 am

      Thanks, Blair! I know you could make this cake too:)

      Reply
  8. April Griffin

    March 14, 2014 at 8:31 pm

    This cake is absolutely beautiful!

    Reply
  9. PapaLos - The Man, The Chef, The Dad

    March 14, 2014 at 3:24 am

    This cake is crazy, great job on it! I can't stop looking at it, it's mesmerising.

    Reply
  10. The Partiologist

    March 14, 2014 at 1:24 am

    So pretty, wish I had a big piece right now – I love crème de menthe! and cake.

    Reply
  11. Jan

    March 13, 2014 at 8:26 pm

    Did I miss the link for the recipe?
    Btw, you are amazing, Beth!

    Reply
    • beth

      March 13, 2014 at 8:37 pm

      Hi Jan, there are two purple links above in the post and here is the url – http://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/grasshopper-ombre-cake/ad161a36-f0b2-485b-93fd-267a8279f641/

      Reply
  12. Danielle Doerr

    March 13, 2014 at 12:06 am

    Oh my goodness. How long did it take you to decorate that? SO PRETTY!

    Danielle at www.framedfrosting.com

    Reply
    • beth

      March 13, 2014 at 1:56 am

      Oh, this was nothing compared to the cake that I'll share with you tomorrow!

      Reply

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