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Chocolate Plum Cake with Strawberries

Chocolate Plum Cake with Strawberries

Learn how to prepare this delicious chocolate plum cake!

  • 6-10 people

  • 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients

300 g butter

250 g sugar

1 tablespoon of vanilla sugar or vanilla essence

5 eggs

40 g cocoa powder

375 g flour

4 teaspoons of baking powder

1 pinch of salt

5 tablespoons milk

100 g of large strawberries

For the chocolate cream:

150 g dark chocolate

130 ml of whipping cream

Recipe Steps
Step 1

Preheat the oven at 180°C. Put the softened butter in a bowl, add the sugar, vanilla sugar and salt and beat with an electric whisk until blended.

Step 2

Add the milk and the eggs one by one, beating until they are blended in.

Step 3

Sift the flour with the baking powder and cocoa and add to the mixture into two halves. Pour into the 24 cm rectangular mould

Step 4

Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 55 minutes. Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool.

Step 5

Heat the cream in a saucepan and pour into a bowl over the chopped chocolate . Stir until you obtain a smooth chocolate cream.

Step 6

Leave to cool until the texture is thick enough to spread with a spatula. Spread the cream over the cake and decorate with the strawberries. Tip: If you like strawberry jam, cut the cake horizontally and fill with jam. Put it together again and continue with the procedure.