Chocolate cake recipe for Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is coming and in this article we bring a chocolate cake for Valentine’s Day with which you will surely make your partner fall in love. We have started by preparing a chocolate cake for Valentine’s Day and we have accompanied it with a delicious strawberry filling and a pastry cream with cream cheese. This cake is not very complicated and you can make it for other occasions, such as a birthday or anniversary. Include this chocolate cake in your Valentine’s recipes because you will surely prepare it more than once!

Well, in this article we teach you how to make easy chocolate cake for Valentine’s Day. Let’s cook!

Ingredients to make Valentine’s Day Chocolate Cake:

• For the chocolate cake:
• 230 milliliters of water
• 60 grams of dark chocolate
• 250 grams of white sugar
• 10 grams of yeast
• 3 egg
• 230 grams of flour
• 230 grams of unsalted butter
• 5 grams of salt
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
• For the strawberry filling:
• 2 cups of strawberries
• 1 tablespoon of corn starch
• 1 cup of water (240 milliliters)
• 1 tablespoon of white sugar
• 1 splash of lemon juice
• For the cream and cheese:
• 400 milliliters of whipping cream (2 cups)
• 200 grams of spreadable cheese
• 130 grams of icing sugar
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract

How to make Chocolate Cake for Valentine’s Day:

1. To start making the chocolate cake recipe for Valentine’s Day, you must first prepare the American chocolate cake:
2. Mix the chocolate with hot water and reserve until it cools down a bit.
3. Sift all the dry ingredients into another bowl.
4. We beat the eggs with the vanilla essence and 1/4 of the chocolate mixture.
5. Melt the butter and add it to the dry ingredients along with the remaining chocolate.
6. Add the egg and chocolate mixture and beat well.
7. We put the chocolate cake in the oven at 175 ºC for 40 minutesand once cooked we take it out and let it cool completely on a wire rack.
8. Meanwhile, we prepare the strawberry filling for cakes.
9. We begin by diluting the corn starch in water and transfer the mixture to a pot.
10. Add the cut strawberries and heat together with the sugar and a few drops of lemon.
11.  Cook for approximately 10 minutes until a shiny and thick syrup is left.
12. On the other hand, we are going to make a pastry creambased on cream and spreadable cheese: in a bowl we mix the cream (which must be very cold) with the icing sugar and the help of some electric rods.
13. When the cream is assembled, we add the spreadable cheese little by little so that the cream does not go down.
14. Transfer the sweet cheese cream to a pastry bag and put it in the fridge for about an hour.
15. To decorate the Valentine’s cakewe have chosen to make a circular crown with the pastry cream and fill the center with the strawberry cream.