Chocolate Peppermint cake

I haven't made a cake for Mr Bee to take to work for a while so as I was feeling in the festive spirit I made a chocolate cake with chocolate peppermint icing.

I encrusted it with smashed up peppermint candy canes. I haven't bought candy canes while we have been in Guernsey so I have never noticed before but the candy cane available in the shops here (at least the ones I could find) are pink.

Pink candy canes wasn't a problem; it is just that I would have preferred traditional red. It didn't really matter as the cake container came home empty that evening.