If you conduct a global survey of sweet tooth on their favorite treat, then a cake with chocolate strawberries will take one of the leading places. Therefore, there are a lot of options for this dish. Among them, it is easy to choose an option that is ideal for a hot summer holiday - light and refreshing. No less successful can be this combination of components for a truly winter dessert, which will fill the snowy evening with warming comfort and a sense of a fairy tale.
Great combination
There are not many products intended for desserts that chocolate would not harmonize with. Moreover, in some chocolate cake recipes you can even meet hot peppers!
But strawberry, perhaps, is a real classic. It is complemented by pastries with chocolate, designed for the most special occasions. And many famous chefs include chocolate and strawberry cakes in the list of their best desserts. What can I say, the combination is truly royal.
Chocolate cake with strawberries , complemented by a delicate cream, icing or ganache, can be a great solution for the holiday.
Other suitable components
Choosing a cream for such a cake, you can focus solely on your own taste. A delicate Swiss meringue will be an excellent choice . Prepared correctly, it will be very tender and delicate - just what you need for the expressive texture of the cakes and the juicy sweetness of the berries.
Chocolate strawberry cake can also be decorated with cream cheese. But its taste is more active than that of protein creams, it will be more pronounced.
Often in the company of chocolate and strawberries are butter creams. Their high calorie content is not to everyone's liking, but the taste is definitely good.
Another win-win option is a cream based on caramel. In a word, you can choose what is more to your liking.
Sponge Cake with Strawberries and Chocolate Icing
According to this recipe, a very tasty and beautiful cake will turn out, and quite large. For shortcakes you will need the following:
- Flour - 4.5 tbsp.
- Cocoa for baking - 0.5 tbsp.
- Soda - 2 tsp
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Vegetable oil (refined) - 150 ml.
- Boiling water - 1.5 tbsp.
- Sugar - 1.4 tbsp.
- Baking powder - 1.5 tsp (without top).
- Milk - 1.5 tbsp.
Beat the eggs with a mixer so that they double in volume. The color of the mass will also change - it will become like condensed milk. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl and pour into the egg mass. Pour a glass of boiling water, stir very quickly. Add milk.
Bake the cake in detachable form for about 50 minutes in the oven, preheated to 200 ° C. Let the finished cake cool in shape, and then divide into 2 or 3 cake layers. Layer with a cream made from condensed milk and melted butter in equal parts (approximately 200 g). Garnish with strawberries as you wish. Before serving, you can pour the cake with melted chocolate or crush it with chocolate chips.
Strawberry Chocolate Cheesecake
Supporters of light and wholesome dishes will certainly enjoy a cheese cake - cheesecake, which can also be cooked with strawberries and chocolate. Especially popular today are recipes that do not require baking, because you can cook a treat quite quickly, and the result will be excellent.
For the sand base, we need:
- cookies - 200 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- condensed milk - 3 tbsp.
You can use even the most budgetary cookies ("Jubilee", for example), but this dessert will turn out to be simply divine, if you take "Oreo" as the basis. To prepare the cake, simply beat the components with a blender. If using regular cookies, add a third of the bar of melted dark chocolate.
For the cheese layer, thoroughly beat 200 g of cottage cheese (or purchased curd mass). Add a glass of sugar and 500 ml of cream. Soak 15 g of gelatin in 90 g of water first (always take exactly six times as much fluid). Preheat 0.5 tbsp. milk, pour in a thin stream of jelly mass, cook until dissolved. Add 3 tablespoons to the hot mixture. cocoa. Enter the milk mass into the curd and mix. If desired, you can add a handful of berries, cut into pieces.
Collecting cheesecake is best in detachable form. Tamp the mass of cookies onto the bottom, pour the curd mixture on top. Flatten the top with a spatula. Rinse 15-17 berries thoroughly, slightly drown in cottage cheese. By the way, you can decorate chocolate cake with strawberries with halves and Oreo halves, it will turn out very beautifully. Send the cake to the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.
Confectioners secrets for a successful result
Many beginners encounter certain problems when working with fresh berries. Homemade strawberries can start juice, lose color, stain light cream.
Of course, the berry grown under the sun is always tastier than the greenhouse, but inferior in aesthetics. A chocolate cake decorated with strawberries from a greenhouse will look better and stay fresh longer. But if you decide to add berries to the cake, the gardeners will make the taste much brighter.
Overripe berries should never be used to decorate a cake. They just have no chance.
There is another little trick. Before localizing the berry on the cake, dip it in strong jelly. For this, the usual fruit one, which is sold in ordinary stores, is suitable. Dissolve the contents of the bag in half the amount of water indicated by the manufacturer. The layer will be thin and almost imperceptible, but the berry will not weather and will not let the juice flow. Of course, it is better to take strawberry jelly.
Serving to the table
Any chocolate cake with strawberries, the recipe of which you can adjust to your taste, is an excellent addition to sweet champagne, dessert wine, sangria. In the cold season, serve cocoa, custard coffee, hot chocolate, and aromatic tea to this treat. The table should be served with dessert forks and small plates.