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🍰 Strawberry Cake with White and Dark Chocolate Cream

627 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
  2. 2. Mix 150 grams of butter, powdered sugar, a pinch of salt, one egg, and flour in a bowl using a hand mixer with dough hooks.
  3. 3. Stir the ingredients until a smooth shortcrust pastry dough forms.
  4. 4. Place the dough in the refrigerator for further processing.
  5. 5. Grease a cake or tart pan with the remaining butter.
  6. 6. Place the dough between two sheets of baking paper and roll it out into a circle using a rolling pin.
  7. 7. Place the rolled-out dough into the pan and press up a crust edge of about 2 cm high.
  8. 8. Cover the dough base with fresh baking paper.
  9. 9. Fill the baking paper with dried legumes such as peas or beans to use as pie weights.
  10. 10. Bake the base in the oven for approx. 25 minutes.
  11. 11. Remove the baked base from the oven and carefully take out the baking paper along with the legumes.
  12. 12. Wash the strawberries thoroughly and remove the green leafy tops.
  13. 13. Slice the strawberries into thin slices.
  14. 14. Chop the white and dark chocolate separately into coarse pieces.
  15. 15. Bring about 500 ml of water to a boil in a pot.
  16. 16. Place a metal bowl over the hot water to create a bain-marie (water bath).
  17. 17. Melt the first type of chocolate in the metal bowl over the water bath.
  18. 18. Stir 100 ml of cream and 20 g of butter into the melted chocolate.
  19. 19. Repeat the process with the second type of chocolate to make the second cream.
  20. 20. Distribute half of the strawberry slices evenly over the baked cake base.
  21. 21. Let the chocolate creams cool down briefly until they thicken slightly.
  22. 22. Pour the chocolate creams alternately over the strawberries in the pan.
  23. 23. Gently drag a wooden skewer through the cream to create a marbled effect.
  24. 24. Place the cake in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours to set.
  25. 25. Garnish the finished cake with the remaining fresh strawberries.
  26. 26. Slice the cake and serve it.

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