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Marshmallow-Stuffed Hot Chocolate Cake

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Hot chocolate bunt cake topped with toasted marshmallows.
Photo by Sarah Kieffer

Hot chocolate is a beautiful part of our Minnesota winter routine. Blustery autumn day? Hot chocolate by the fire. Eight inches of snow and we can’t go to school? Hot chocolate by the fire. Spent three hours shoveling our driveway and sidewalk? Hot chocolate by the fire. My version of this beloved beverage is a hot chocolate cake tunneled with marshmallow filling, then topped with chocolate ganache and toasted marshmallows. I was inspired by Irvin Lin’s Nostalgic Marshmallow-Filled Chocolate Cake in his Marbled, Swirled, and Layered cookbook, and used his technique for filling the cake.

This recipe was excerpted from 'Baking for the Holidays' by Sarah Kieffer. Buy the full book on Amazon. Bake more of our favorite Sarah Kieffer recipes →

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Cooks' Note

If you only have a tube pan with a removable bottom, you may want to wrap the bottom of the pan in foil before baking. The cake batter is thin and can leak if your pan is two pieces.

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