What could be better than a chocolate cake?
This delicious treat is a simple and easy chocolate cake with a sweet and soft filling of whipped cream and berries!
I used blueberries and strawberries but you can use any fruit you like, such as blackberries, raspberries, or peaches!
Chocolate cake with cream and berries
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 sticks butter
- 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup warm water
Filling – Fresh Fruit Syrup
- 1 cup blueberries (could be frozen)
- 1 cup strawberries (in quarters) (could be frozen)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup Oporto or Water
Filling – Whipped Cream
- 1 cup cream (35%) (cold)
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup caramel spread or dulce de leche (optional)
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, sugar and salt. Mix together and set aside.
- In another bowl, mix the buttermilk, vanilla and eggs. Mix with a fork and set aside.
- In a medium saucepan, add the butter, cocoa and water. Whisk together to combine and bring to a boil and cook for 10 seconds. Let it rest for a minute.
- Pour the chocolate mixture into the flour mixture and mix it all together. Then add the egg mixture and stir together until well mixed.
- Lastly, pour the mixture into a quarter sheet pan with parchment paper and bake for 20 minutes.
- Let it cool very well, to prevent the filling from softening.
Filling – Fresh Fruit Syrup
- In a medium saucepan, add the fruits, with the sugar and Oporto (or water) and let it reduce until the sauce is thick.
- Let it cool and keep it in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
Whipped cream:
- Using the mixer, add the cream, sugar and vanilla. Whisk all together until getting a firm whipped cream.
- Let it rest covered with a film wrap in the fridge until you are ready to use it.
Fill & layer the cake
- Using a 10cm (3 Β½β) cookie cutter, cut circles from the cake and start layering adding the cream first, then the fruit syrup, and repeat until you have 3 layers of cake.
- If you prefer, you can cut the cake as rectangles and do all the layering.
- On the last layer, you can add caramel spread (dulce de leche) before the cream, or between layers as well.To finish, top up with fruits.