Chocolate cake with strawberries
This chocolate cake with strawberries is a real firework of bright flavors and aromas that will impress any sweet tooth. Yes, and those who are usually calm about desserts, perhaps, will also not be able to resist tasting this confectionery masterpiece. Just imagine: it includes strawberries, oranges and chocolate - products that, by definition, are created to give pleasure! By the way, you can replace the cream in the cream with good fat sour cream. This product will add an elegant milky sour taste to the dessert. Chocolate cake with strawberries can be prepared in honor of any holiday, yes, in general, and for no reason - just when there is a mood and inspiration to create something especially exquisite.
Ingredients
Servings 8-12- cocoa powder - 4 tbsp. l.
- drinking water - 4 tbsp. l.
- medium-sized oranges - 3 pcs.
- butter - 200 g
- fine sugar - 200 g
- eggs - 3 pcs.
- flour - 200 g
- baking powder - 1 tsp
- cream (33%) - 250 ml
- strawberries - 400 g
- butter - 100 g
- bitter chocolate (70%) - 100 g
- sugar - 100 g
- mint - 2 sprigs
Cooking
Step 1
Prepare two identical baking pans for baking chocolate cake with strawberries (diameter - 20-22 cm). Lay baking parchment on the bottom. Grease the edges with a little butter or vegetable oil.
Step 2
Prepare the chocolate strawberry cake batter. Add cocoa powder to boiling water and stir. Wash and dry oranges. Remove the zest from them using a fine grater. Squeeze juice from one fruit.
Step 3
Beat soft butter with sugar with a mixer until a fluffy mass of a homogeneous consistency is obtained. Add cocoa water and eggs. Beat with a mixer again.
Step 4
Sift flour with baking powder on top and mix. Add half the orange zest and stir again. The dough for chocolate cake with strawberries is ready.
Step 5
Distribute the resulting dough into prepared forms. Heat the oven to 180°C. Bake chocolate cake layers for 20-25 minutes. Let cool slightly, then remove from molds. Cool completely.
Step 6
Prepare the chocolate icing for the strawberry cake. Put all the ingredients in a ladle and place in a hot water bath. Stirring, cook until a mass of a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
Step 7
Whip the cream for the chocolate cake cream with a mixer until fluffy. Add the remaining orange zest and freshly squeezed juice. Beat the cream with a mixer again.
Step 8
Peel the pulp of the two remaining oranges from white films and divide into slices. Wash the strawberries, dry and cut into cubes (leave some of the berries whole: they are useful for decoration).
Step 9
Lay one cake on a plate. Spread the buttercream evenly, then dip the orange slices and half of the strawberries in it. Top with the second layer and press lightly.
Step 10
Drizzle the cake with chocolate icing. Let it harden a bit and refrigerate for 1 hour. Garnish the chocolate cake with the remaining strawberries and mint leaves before serving.