Chocolate Cake with Strawberries and Whipped Cream Recipe

One of everyone’s favorite desserts is the exquisite chocolate cake, and its incredible flavor enchants anyone, so what would you think if I told you that we can improve that unbeatable flavor? My idea is to add some fresh strawberry and whipped cream. Sounds great right?

That is why this time in this article we bring you a delicious chocolate and strawberry cake. The truth is that its preparation is somewhat laborious but let me tell you that the result is well worth it, you can also use this recipe for chocolate cake with strawberries and whipped cream to prepare it on a special occasion surprising everyone around you, or just as You can only prepare this rich chocolate dessert to pamper yourself. How about?

Ingredients to make Chocolate Cake with Strawberries and Whipped Cream:

• For the cake:
• 1 cup of wheat flour (140 grams)
• ¼ cup of cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• ¾ cup of Milk (180 milliliters)
• ¼ cup melted butter
• ½ teaspoon of vanilla essence
• 1 piece of Egg
• ¼ teaspoon of Salt
• ½ cup of Sugar (100 grams)
• For the glaze:
• 1½ cups of icing sugar (210 grams)
• 125 grams of Chocolate to melt
• 3 tablespoons of Water
• ½ cup of Butter (112½ grams)
• For the filling:
• Whipped cream
• fresh strawberries

How to make Chocolate Cake with Strawberries and Whipped Cream:

1. In the following image you can see the ingredients that we will need to prepare this exquisite chocolate cake with strawberries and whipped cream.
2. To begin, we are going to place the sifted wheat flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a deep container, once we integrate everything together with the help of a spatula.
3. Once our dry ingredients are integrated, we will add the milk, the melted butter and the vanilla, with the help of the mixer and at low speed we will beat for 2 minutes.
4. Once the two minutes have passed, add the eggand beat again for 2 more minutes until everything is perfectly integrated.
5. Now we take our mold where we will bake the chocolate cake, cover it completely with butter, and then add a little flour, remove the excess by tapping it, and it should look like in the following image.
6. Once the mold is ready, we pour the mixture of the chocolate and strawberry cake that we formed a moment ago inside it and take it to bake at 180°Cfor 30 to 35 minutes.
7. After this time and making sure that our bread is well cooked, we remove it from the oven and let it cool completely.
8. Once our chocolate cake is cold, we are going to split it in half horizontally, we must do this very carefully so that we do not have any crooked sides.
9. Once divided, we leave another moment for the interior to cool.
10. Meanwhile, on the other hand, we take the fresh strawberriesand place them in water with a few drops of disinfectant, and let them rest in the water for 5 minutes.
11. Once our chocolate cake is cold inside, we take the whipped cream and spread it on one side of our cake.
12. Once the strawberries are disinfected, we slice 3 finely and arrange them neatly on the whipped cream.
13. Once all the chocolate cake filling is ready, we accommodate the other half of the cake on the strawberries.
14. On the other hand, we are going to prepare the glaze, for this we take the butter and the chocolate to melt, we place them in a saucepan to melt over low heat.
15. We must constantly move. Once liquid, add the icing sugar and the water, which must be hot, and integrate without stopping to move.
16. Once we observe that a semi-thick paste is formed, we remove it from the heat.
17. Now we take the mixture obtained and with it we glaze the chocolate cake with strawberries, letting it drain from the sides to cover it completely.
18. We decorate with some strawberries on top and READY! Our rich chocolate cake with strawberries and whipped creamis ready to be enjoyed. Enjoy it!