Saturday, February 12, 2011

Chocolate Celebration Cake

My sister-in-law first made this cake and sent down a slice and let me tell you I had to have the recipe for it!! Chocolate dipped strawberries are one of my favorite things, so a cake with them piled on top of sounded perfect to me!!
Original recipe is from Taste Of Home-I love their recipes and use them often.
Love, love, love these;)

I can't for the life of me get my frosting to go on smooth-so I used a butter knife to make this design on the sides.
This cake is basically just a boxed mix thats been "enhanced" with extra ingredients added
for moistness.
This recipe makes a lot of frosting and next time I won't make the full amount of ganache either but I will definitely be making it again!
Full recipe available in the printable

The top has a ganache poured over and dripping down the sides a little.

Thats a ton of frosting!!
This would make an excellent Valentine's Day cake:)

Enjoy!!

11 comments:

  1. Oh my gosh does this look wonderful! Such a pretty cake and very impressive. I'd love a slice.

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  2. This is a delicious and moist looking cake and I love the strawberries on top.

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  3. Wow, this looks incredible. Love all those yummy strawberries on top. I'd like to invite you to come by and link this up to Sweets for a Saturday #4. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/02/sweets-for-saturday-4.html

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  4. wowowow! i would love to dig into that piece of art!

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  5. Looks yummy! Great Job!!! And I never had that much frosting left over but i'm assuming it's because I ate alot of it in the process.;)

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  6. The chocolate covered strawberries are a wonderful garnish for the top. So pretty.

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  7. Mmmm...that chocolate cake is gorgeous! The frosting looks so creamy and delicious. I love the strawberries on top!

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  8. Wow!! That cake looks amazing.

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  9. I LOVE chocolate covered strawberries, they are my favorite dessert. That cake is gorgeous.

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