Chocolate & Strawberry Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
2015-05-03 14:31:52
A gorgeous and super easy chocolate cake recipe. It's my take on Black Forest Cake as I use Strawberry jam in the middle with the cream cheese frosting. The cake stays moist and keeps beautifully for at least a week, unrefrigerated, whereas the cream (in Black Forest cake) needs to be kept cool.
You should double this recipe in order to make a 2 layered cake.
Cake Batter
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup self raising flour
- ½ cup cut into pieces, room temperature
- 2 tablespoon cocoa
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 cup cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into pieces, room temperature
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Filling
- 1 jar Strawberry Jam
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C or 160C for Fan assisted ovens. Butter two (if you have doubled the recipe) 8-by-2-inch round cake pans. Dust pans with flour, and tap out any excess.
- Sift dry ingredients into a medium mixing bowl.
- Pour all the liquid ingredients into the mixing bowl and mix well, until fluffy
- Pour into a well greased cake tin and bake until a cake tester inserted into the middles comes out clean, about 40 mins - 1 hour. Remove pans from oven, and transfer to a wire rack to cool, 15 minutes. Turn cakes out onto a rack, let stand until completely cool.
- Let the cakes cool completely before frosting, while cooling, prepare your cream cheese frosting.
- Place cream cheese in a medium mixing bowl. Using a rubber spatula, soften cream cheese. Gradually add butter, and continue beating until smooth and well blended.
- Gradually sift in confectioners' sugar and continue beating until smooth. Add vanilla and stir to combine.
- Place the first layer of cake on a cake stand or plate, and spread 3/4 cup frosting over top. Place a layer on strawberry jam over this, then the second cake layer on top, and spread with another 3/4 cup frosting. Repeat with third layer and another 3/4 cup frosting. Place last cake layer on top, and spread the remaining frosting over the top and the sides of the assembled cake.
- Transfer to your refrigerator, and chill 3 to 4 hours.
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