Can't send html email with laravel + mandrill

Question

I am using Laravel 4.2 and mandrill plugin. This way I can send emails using the laravel syntax (swiftmailer) and the mails are sent by mandrill. However, I can't seem to send HTML messages. They appear as text emails with htmltags inside. What could be wrong?

    //Send email    
    $emailName = $_POST['emailName'];
    $emailAddress = $_POST['emailAddress'];
    $emailSubject = $_POST['emailSubject'];
    $emailMessage = html_entity_decode($_POST['emailMessage']);
    $emailFrom = $_POST['emailFrom'];
    $emailFromName = $_POST['emailFromName'];
    $pathToAttachement = $_POST['pathToAttachement'];

    $data = array('emailAddress' => $emailAddress, 'emailName' => $emailName, 'emailSubject' => $emailSubject, 'emailFrom' => $emailFrom, 'emailFromName' => $emailFromName, 'pathToAttachement' => $pathToAttachement);
    Mail::send('admin.emails.blank', array('msg' => $emailMessage), function($message) use ($data)
    {
        $message->setContentType('text/html');
        $message->from($data['emailFrom'], $data['emailFromName']);
        $message->to($data['emailAddress'], $data['emailName'])->subject($data['emailSubject']);
        $message->attach($data['pathToAttachement']);

    });

Answer 1

In your blank.blade.php template make sure you use double curly braces so that you don't escape the content

{{ $msg }}