Recipe: Perfect Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling

Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling.

You can cook Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling using 22 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling

1. Prepare of For Dark Chocolate Cake.
2. It's of all purpose flour.
3. Prepare of unsweetened cocoa powder, I used Hersheys special dark.
4. You need of baking powder.
5. Prepare of teaspoin salt.
6. It's of ups granulated sugar.
7. Prepare of large eggs.
8. It's of milk.
9. Prepare of canola oil.
10. Prepare of vanilla extract.
11. Prepare of brewed coffee at room temperature.
12. It's of For Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling.
13. You need of cream cheese, at room temperature.
14. It's of marscapone chee, at room temperature.
15. Prepare of (1 stick), salted butter, at room temperature.
16. It's of fresh strawberries.
17. Prepare of vanilla extract.
18. Prepare of confectioner's sugar.
19. You need of Garnish.
20. Prepare of pink sprinkles,.
21. It's of Godiva Strawberry Cheesecake truffle candies, halved.
22. You need of fresh strawberries.

Dark Chocolate Layer Cake with Fresh Strawberry Cream Frosting and Filling step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375. Spray 3 - 8 inch cake pans well with bakers spray.
2. In a bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder,baking powder and salt and sugar.
3. In another bowl whisk the eggs with the milk,canola oil and vanilla, beat into flour mixture until smooth.
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5. Slowly beat in coffee until smooth batter will be very thin..
6. Pour into prepared pans and bake 22 to 25 minutes until a toothpick comes out just clean. Cool 15 minutes in pan then run a thin knife around edges of cake to unstick any edges of cake and remove from pan to cool completely.
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8. Make Strawberry Filling and Frosting.
9. Puree strawberries in a food processor and set adide.
10. Beat together in a large bowl until smooth, cream cheese, marscapone cheese, butter and vanilla.
11. Beat in strawberry puree.
12. Slowly beat in confectioner's sugar until it is a nice spreading consistancy, add drops of red food color only if you want it pinker. Refrigerate if frosting seems soft to firm it up for about 1 hour for easier spreading.
13. Assemble Cake.
14. Place 1 cake layer bottom up on serving plate add some Strawberry filling.
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16. Add second layer, bottom side up.
17. Add more fillinhg.
18. Add third layer, bottom up.
19. Frost entire cake and decorate with sprinkles, Godiva Strawberry Cheesecaketruffles, halved and fresh strawberries.
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