Chocolate Canvass Cake Alongside Strawberry Frosting

We honey this rich Dark Chocolate Sheet Cake slathered amongst fresh Strawberry Frosting –  a delicious jibe made inwards heaven!

Everyone is nuts for this fantastic season combination. Even my non-chocolate loving married adult man can’t larn plenty of this luscious cake. Our son-in-law proclaimed that he wants this Chocolate Sheet Cake amongst Strawberry Frosting  every yr for his birthday. And all the niggling ones inwards the household unit of measurement said “nom, nom, nom!”

 

Developing the perfect Strawberry Frosting was a exam of wills!

I researched a lot strawberry frosting recipes but establish many don’t accept the correct consistency together with often “break” together with seem curdled. I tried frosting a iii layer cake using i of my early on versions solely to lookout adult man the icing slide downwards the sides of the cake together with puddle around the bottom. Sheesh. I’ve never seen that occur before! Back to the drawing board. Then I remembered our recipe for Strawberry Mousse which is made amongst a strawberry syrup reduction. Fresh strawberries are chopped inwards a nutrient processor, lightly sweetened so left for an hr to macerate. The juice is strained, the pulp is pressed through the sieve together with the syrup is boiled downwards into pure, intense strawberry flavor. This pace adds a niggling work, but it’s so worth it! The reduction was the respond to perfect strawberry frosting! Now nosotros accept a recipe for real strawberry icing, amongst tons of strawberry flavor, together with corking consistency.

 

We usage one-half cream cheese together with one-half butter for the base of operations of this Strawberry Frosting.

Cream cheese together with strawberries couplet perfectly, so it was a corking starting scream for for this frosting. I honey the slightly sour season of cream cheese, particularly when blended amongst sweetness strawberries. We usage one-half butter together with one-half cream cheese to ensure corking consistency together with spreadability! TIP: Make certain your cream cheese together with butter are at room temperature for proper blending. Don’t warm your cream cheese every bit a shortcut – it won’t combine good amongst the other ingredients.

 

This Dark Chocolate Sheet Cake is loaded amongst existent chocolate together with plenty of Dutch-processed cocoa powder.

The base of operations cake recipe comes from Cook’s Illustrated but I made a few minor modifications. We wanted a super nighttime chocolate cake amongst plenty of chocolate season together with no bitterness or weird after-taste. I substituted purpose of the Dutch-processed cocoa pulverization amongst Black Cocoa Powder from King Arthur Flour. You tin guild dark cocoa pulverization online or usage all regular Dutch-processed cocoa pulverization inwards this recipe. The recipe also calls for 8-ounces of proficient lineament chocolate so don’t live tempted to substitute chocolate chips here. Chocolate chips accept additives similar cocoa butter together with are often sweeter together with waxier than proficient lineament baking bar chocolate. Great ingredients brand all the deviation inwards this recipe!

 

Use vine-ripened strawberries for the best flavor.

When y'all cutting into a strawberry together with come across that gorgeous scarlet color all the agency through, y'all know this is going to live i delicious berry! If y'all come across lots of white inwards the middle together with solely pinkish around the outside, your strawberries volition notwithstanding live proficient to eat, but may non live every bit sweetness every bit a vine-ripened berry.

Grocery store strawberries tin live hitting together with missy so hither are a few tips for finding the best:

• Look for strawberries amongst calorie-free colored seeds. If the seeds on the exterior are nighttime brownish together with dried up, the strawberry in all probability is too.


• Buy local strawberries if at all possible. Less fourth dimension traveling to your kitchen volition yield fresher strawberries, so amend flavor. If you’re buying strawberries from some other province they may accept been picked earlier they were fully ripe to live the long distance commute.


• Look for strawberries that are scarlet all the agency to the top. If the top is white, the middle of the strawberry volition live too. White strawberry tops yield less flavor.


• Finally, if y'all tin pick your ain strawberries at a local farm – larn for it!

 

Enjoy this fudgy, moist chocolate cake amongst fresh strawberry frosting for all your potlucks, birthdays, picnics together with parties. We honey spooning fresh chopped strawberries on top simply earlier serving for the total berry experience. You won’t regret trying this recipe!

 

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Dark Chocolate Sheet Cake amongst Strawberry Frosting

Prep Time

40 mins

Cook Time

40 mins

Total Time

1 hr 10 mins

 

Course:

Desserts

Servings: 12

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the strawberry syrup:

• 
  1
  pound
  fresh strawberries,
  cleaned amongst hulls removed
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  granulated sugar
  

For the cake:

• 
  1
  cup
  whole milk
  


• 
  8
  ounces
  good lineament semisweet chocolate,
  chopped fine (not chocolate chips)
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  Dutch-processed cocoa powder
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  black Dutch-processed cocoa powder
  (see notes)
  


• 
  1 1/4
  cups
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  1 1/2
  cups
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  baking soda
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  2/3
  cup
  vegetable oil
  


• 
  4
  large eggs,
  room temperature
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  vanilla extract
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  coffee extract
  (see notes) or 1/4 teaspoon espresso powder
  

For the frosting:

• 
  8
  tablespoons
  unsalted butter,
  softened
  


• 
  4
  ounces
  cream cheese,
  softened
  


• 
  2
  teaspoons
  vanilla extract
  


• 
  strawberry syrup
  


• 
  3
  cups
  powdered sugar
  


• 
  pinch
  of salt
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  heavy cream or milk,
  more or less every bit needed for desired consistency
  

For garnish together with serving:

• 
  whole strawberries
  


• 
  sliced strawberries
  

Instructions

To prepare the strawberry syrup:

1. 
   
   Clean 1-pound of fresh, ripe strawberries together with take the hulls. Process the strawberries inwards a nutrient processor until most pieces are 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Be careful non to over-process the strawberries.
   
   


2. 
   
   Place the processed strawberries inwards a medium mixing bowl together with toss amongst two tablespoons granulated sugar. Cover together with allow the strawberries to residuum at room temperature for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
   
   


3. 
   
   Strain the strawberries through a fine-mesh sieve into a minor saucepan. Using the dorsum of a spoon, gently press the strawberries to extract all the juice. You should accept nigh 1/2 loving cup of juice. Discard the strawberry pulp together with seeds. Heat the strawberry juice on medium-high heat, stirring constantly together with gear upward until the juice is reduced to nigh 1/4 cup, nigh 10 minutes. Cool completely so encompass together with refrigerate until needed.
   
   

To prepare the chocolate cake:

1. 
   
   Preheat oven to 325F. Lightly coat a 13x9-inch baking pan amongst vegetable cooking spray together with laid aside.
   
   


2. 
   
   In a medium saucepan combine the milk, chocolate together with cocoa powders. Heat on depression together with cook, stirring ofttimes until all the chocolate is melted together with the mixture is smooth. Remove from the oestrus together with allow the mixture to cool for five minutes.
   
   


3. 
   
   In a large mixing bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda together with salt.
   
   


4. 
   
   Add the oil, eggs, vanilla together with java extract to the cooled chocolate mixture together with whisk until smoothen together with homogeneous. Pour the chocolate mixture into the bowl amongst the flour together with sugar. Using a rigid spatula or wooden spoon, stir until combined.
   
   


5. 
   
   Pour the prepared batter into the baking pan. Bake for 30-32 minutes or until the pump is theatre when lightly pressed together with a toothpick inserted inwards the middle comes out amongst a few crumbs attached.
   
   


6. 
   
   Cool completely earlier frosting.
   
   

To prepare the frosting:

1. 
   
   In a large mixing bowl combine the butter together with cream cheese. Beat amongst an electrical mixer (or whisk attachment of stand upward mixer) until the mixture is blended together with lightened. Add the vanilla, prepared strawberry syrup together with salt. Beat until combined. Add the powdered carbohydrate 1-cup at a fourth dimension blending until smooth. Add 1 tablespoon of milk or cream together with blend. Add a niggling to a greater extent than powdered carbohydrate or milk until y'all accomplish the desired consistency. Spread over the cooled cake. Garnish amongst a few whole strawberries, if desired. Top amongst fresh sliced strawberries when served.
   
   


2. 
   
   Store leftover cake good covered at room temperature or for longer storage it may live refrigerated. Cake volition go on 3-4 days.
   
   

Recipe Notes

Black Dutch-processed cocoa is optional. If y'all don't accept it on hand, usage all (3/4 cup) regular Dutch-processed Cocoa Powder inwards this recipe. 

 

Click HERE to larn information together with a recipe for Coffee Extract. 

 

Cake recipe adapted from Cook’s Illustrated

 

We accept a large diverseness of strawberry recipes inwards the archives for y'all to try. Here are simply a few of our favorite recipes:

• Our Easy Strawberry Buckle is made amongst simply a few pantry ingredients together with loads of fresh strawberries. This tasty custardy-cake comes together inwards simply minutes. Our recipe for this Strawberry Buckle was featured inwards Farmhouse Style Magazine! Click HERE to larn the recipe for the Strawberry Buckle.


• These Strawberry Cheesecake Bars are creamy, refreshing, together with lightly sweetness amongst an intense strawberry flavor. Always a favorite, these bars are deliciously crave-able together with perfect for all your summertime dessert opportunities! Click HERE to larn the recipe for Strawberry Cheesecake Bars.


• You’ll larn rave reviews for this beautiful Strawberry Mascarpone Cake. Made amongst a uncomplicated lemon scented cake filled amongst mascarpone cream together with topped amongst Grand Marnier soaked strawberries. H5N1 stunning together with delicious dessert. Click HERE to larn the recipe for Strawberry Mascarpone Cake.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Tricia

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