Cocoa Birthday Cake
1.
Prepare the ingredients, the eggs are room temperature eggs.
2.
Add sugar, honey, and vanilla extract to the eggs.
3.
Use a hand-held electric whisk to beat at high speed until the volume of the egg liquid swells and turns white, and the figure 8 pattern will not disappear immediately when the whisk is lifted.
4.
Cocoa powder, corn starch, and low-gluten flour are mixed evenly, then sieved and added to the egg liquid, stir evenly.
5.
The butter and milk melt in water.
6.
Take a spatula and mix the cake batter and butter evenly.
7.
Pour back into the original cake batter and stir evenly.
8.
Prepare a 6-inch round mold and pour the cake batter.
9.
Two vibrations shook out bubbles. Put it in the middle of the preheated oven, and bake it for about 40 minutes at 170 degrees. If the color is too deep in the middle, remember to cover with tin foil.
10.
Shake down and let cool after being out of the oven.
11.
Prepare ingredients.
12.
The whipped cream and sugar are beaten with a handheld electric whisk at low speed until the cream has obvious lines, and the whisk lifts up the cream and presents a small curved tip.
13.
After unmolding the cake base, cut off the top bulge horizontally.
14.
Divide the rest into 3 equal parts.
15.
Spread light cream on a layer of cake base and put in the strawberry cubes.
16.
Spread a layer of light cream on the second piece of cake, make the filling one by one, and add the last piece of cake.
17.
Stir the whipped cream and cocoa powder evenly.
18.
Spread the cocoa butter on the cake base.
19.
Smooth out.
20.
The remaining whipped cream is put into a piping bag.
21.
Squeeze a small round ball on the cake surface.
22.
Add strawberries.
23.
Put half of the chocolate in a piping bag and melt it in water.
24.
Squeeze the chocolate on the strawberries and decorate them with strawberries in the middle.
25.
Scrap the other half of the chocolate with a spoon to scrape out the chocolate chips.
26.
Stick to the bottom of the cake.
27.
Use white chocolate coins for the final decoration and insert the birthday card.
Tips:
1. The oven is different, the temperature and baking time are adjusted according to your own oven.
2. Eggs are room temperature eggs. If the temperature is too low, beat them with warm water about 40 degrees.
3. Strawberries and chocolate coins can be exchanged for other fruits you like. The amount of cocoa powder in the whipped cream can be added according to your preference.
(The finished picture is a day-long cake. The picture was taken at night, and it was slightly deformed, because it was hurriedly finished in the morning and took pictures.)
4. Sealed and refrigerated, it is recommended to eat as soon as possible!