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Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting

5 from 1 vote

Ingredients

Moist Chocolate Cake

  • 2 ¼ Cups Flour
  • 2 ¼ Cups Castor Sugar
  • 1 Cup Cocoa Powder
  • 3 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Cup Buttermilk
  • ½ Cup Lancewood Sour Cream
  • 1 Cup Hot Coffee
  • ¾ Cup Oil
  • 3 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
  • 3 Eggs
  • 125 g Dark Chocolate melted

Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting:

  • 400 g Butter softened
  • 2 Cups Fresh Strawberries
  • 3-4 Cups Icing Sugar Add more or less depending on your desired consistency
  • 230 g Lancewood Cream Cheese
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

Toppings:

  • Fresh Flowers
  • Meringues
  • Strawberries
  • Blackberries
  • Raspberries

Instructions 

For the Cake

  • Preheat the oven to 180ºC and line two 20cm baking tins with baking paper.
  • In a mixing bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients.
  • In another mixing bowl, combine all the wet ingredients until fully mixed.
  • Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients a little at a time, making sure to mix the wet ingredients in properly between each addition.
  • Divide the batter between the two baking tins and bake them for 45min or until a cake inserted comes out clean.

For the Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting:

  • Place the strawberries in a blender and blend until smooth.
  • In mixing bowl, cream the butter until light and fluffy.
  • Add the Lancewood Cream Cheese and continue to cream the mixture.
  • While the mixer is running, add the strawberry pureé and vanilla essence.
  • Lastly, add the icing sugar a cup at a time until you have reached the desired consistency. (I like my frosting to be relatively stiff).

Assembling the cake:

  • Once the cakes have cooled, cut each cake in half so that you have 4 thin layers.
  • Place the bottom layer on a cake plate and spread a little frosting on top of the chocolate cake.
  • Continue the process until all 4 layers are stacked.
  • Spread the last bit of frosting around the cake and use a palette knife to smooth the edges.
  • Top the cake with fresh flowers, meringues and berries (get creative here).
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