The Naughty Senator Cake

The cake is a combination of peppermint, chocolate and rum flavors. The peppermint flavor represents the congresspeople who always seem to smell of mint, the chocolate flavor symbolic of the rich senators and the rum flavor means debauchery or the leading astray morally of the government.

It took time to mix the batter, divide the batter, add the peppermint flavor to one bowl, add food coloring, then pour in the chocolate mix and rum to the other bowl and layer the two batters in the cake pan. To finish you complete the cake by using the end of a knife in a rotating motion to create the marbleing affect before cooking.

The green color adds to the overall interest of the cake and it comes out light and fluffy while it tastes a little like a Andes Mint candy or Junior Mints. Many in the office said they had never had a mint flavored cake and seemed to be well taken by the novelty of the marbled coloring and familiar peppermint flavor, but in cake form. I placed a small mint to the side so the staff could make a true and on the spot comparison between the dessert and candy.