Chocolate Cake With Strawberries

Serve with chantilly cream and fresh strawberries if desired.

Chocolate cake with strawberries. Beat in milk until smooth. Preheat oven to 300â f. This will make the cake crumb extra tender and light. We paired dark chocolate cake with fluffy buttercream that gets its flavor and pretty pink color from fresh berries.

Finely chop chocolate and in a bowl combine with hot coffee. Spread frosting between layers and over top and sides of cake. Carefully place the second cake on the strawberries gently press on it just to help it set. Make sure to chop up the strawberries very well or chop them up in a food processor so that they easily blend into the frosting.

Fit a piping bag with a 1 2 inch piping tip or cut a corner off a plastic bag so that the cut measures 1 2 inch. Arrange on frosted cake. Place cut strawberries on top and sprinkle with 1 1 1 2 tablespoons of sugar. Pipe little 1 inch blobs of buttercream around the very outer edge of the first cake layer.

Frost side and top of cake with remaining frosting. See more ideas about cake dessert recipes delicious desserts. Assemble your chocolate strawberry cake. Sprinkle chocolate chips around outside edge of top of cake.

Line bottoms with rounds of wax paper and grease paper. Fill the piping bag with buttercream. Two 10 by 2 inch round cake pans. If desired brush jam onto strawberries.

Cut about 5 strawberries into 1 4 inch slices. Let cool completely before serving. You can bake the cake layers one day in advance. Let mixture stand stirring occasionally until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth.

You see my birthday was on friday and i needed an excuse to post a cake recipe i know i just used my birthday as a very relevant excuse to post a cake recipe. For ganache place chocolate in a small bowl. Garnish with about 5 halved strawberries in center of cake. Sep 8 2016 explore mine s board chocolate cake with strawberries on pinterest.

Drizzle over top of cake allowing ganache to drape down the sides. Bake for 10 minutes then reduce heat to 325 f 160 c and bake for approximately one hour. Pour over chocolate and whisk until smooth. Spread with 1 3 cup frosting almost to edge.

Top with second cake rounded side up. Wait about 10 minutes and then place the rest of the strawberries as they are on the top. Pour the rest of the ganache over it. Arrange strawberries on top of cake.

Slice cup of strawberries lengthwise and place them on the chocolate ganache you spread on the first cake. Once the first piece of this chocolate cake hits your taste buds you will have some sort of unexplainable religious experience yes all because of this strawberry chocolate layer cake recipe.