On one of my shopping sprees I spotted baby strawberry's. They are ridiculously cute. I desperately wanted to bake something using them. I came up with the idea of a chocolate strawberry barrel. The weather was a bit of a problem when it came to assembling everything but I was still fairly happy with the result.
Ingredients
200g Plain flour
40g Cocoa
240g Caster sugar
3 Tsp Baking powder
80g Unsalted butter
2 eggs
200ml Milk
2 Tsp Vanilla essence
Kitkats 6
Baby strawberry's
Icing
226g butter
600g icing sugar
50g Cocoa
2 Tsp Vanilla essence
4 Tbsp Milk
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Grease and line a 8 inch baking tin.
2. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt into a bowl and whisk.
3. In another bowl whisk the butter and sugar until fluffy then add vanilla and eggs. Whisking slowly.
4. Add milk and the flour mix alternatively.
5. Bake for 20 - 25 min.
6. Allow to cool.
7. Using a large round cookie cutter cut out 3 circles of sponge.
8. For the icing whisk butter for 3 min. Add icing sugar and cocoa and whisk slow for 1 min. Add vanilla and milk and whisk for 3 min.
9. Sandwiche the 3 layars of cake together using the chocolate buttercream. Then cover the sides in buttercream.
10. Break up the kitkats into fingers and stick around the cake onto the buttercream.
11. In the top of the barrell place the mini strawberries.
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