Chocolate Cake with Strawberry and Cream Cheese

Instructions

1. Melt the chocolate and butter

   • Put 1 cup chocolate and ½ cup butter in a pan on low heat.
   • Start stirring the mixture as soon as you realize that it is melting.

   Turn the oven on now, so it’s at 350°F (175°C) by the time the batter is ready.

   • You need
   • 1 cup chocolate
   • ½ cup butter

2. Beat the egg yolks and sugar

   • In another bowl, mix 2 egg yolks with ½ cup sugar for around 10 minutes.

   • You need
   • 2 egg yolks
   • ½ cup sugar

   Start a 10 min timer

3. Make the batter

   • When the chocolate and butter are fully blended together, add them to the egg yolk and sugar mixture.
   • Add ¼ cup flour and ¼ tsp salt, and mix it well.
   • When the mixture cools down a little bit, add 1 tsp baking powder and the vanilla extract.

   • You need
   • ¼ cup flour
   • ¼ tsp salt
   • 1 tsp baking powder
   • vanilla extract

4. Bake

   • Put it in a baking pan and bake it for 20 minutes at 350°F (175°C).
   • Make sure to check it very often.
   • Depending on the oven, sometimes the batter might cook faster.
   • Just 1 minute too long can burn the whole thing.

   Start a 20 min timer

   One minute too long burns it.

5. Beat the cream cheese and butter

   • To make the frosting, this time we will use cream cheese.
   • Add 120 g cream cheese to a bowl and mix it very well with ¼ cup butter until everything is homogeneous.
   • If you are mixing it by hand, it will take around 10–15 minutes.

   • You need
   • 120 g cream cheese
   • ¼ cup butter

   Start a 10 min timer

6. Add the sugar and cool

   • Add ¾ cup powdered sugar.
   • Make sure to sift it if the powdered sugar has a lot of clumps.
   • When the mixture is ready, put it in a frosting bag and cool it down for 20–30 minutes.

   • You need
   • ¾ cup powdered sugar

   Start a 20 min timer

7. Cut and decorate

   • For the photo, I used a circular shape to cut the chocolate cake.
   • Start decorating the cake with the frosting bag as you please.

   In the photo, there’s strawberry between the two rounds and a swipe of strawberry sauce on the plate. To make one, see the strawberry jam in my brownie cheesecake.

   • You need
   • strawberries