Chocolate strawberry cake

Posted by cocoaandcherry

My Dad hates fondant so for Father's Day I decided to make a Chocolate strawberry cake with ganache and whipped cream filling, he loved it!!

Ingredients

Amount	Ingredient
1	Duncan Hines® Chocolate Swiss Cake Mix
4	Large Eggs
250 grs	Hershey's semi sweet chocolate chips
4 tablespoons	Butter
1/2 cup	Vegetable oil
1 cup	Water
1 1/4 cup	Richs® Whipped Cream
2 cups	Strawberries

Directions

For the cake: Make the cake according to the instructions on the box, just adding 1 egg and 50 grs of Hershey's semi sweet chocolate chips melted in the microwave with 2 tablespoons of butter. Bake in 2 25cm diameter pans acording to instruccions. Cool in a rack.
For the Ganache:
Place 200grs chocolate chips 200 grs in a bowl, set aside, in a sauce pan boil 3/4 of Richs® Whipped Creamand 2 tablespoons of butter, pour into the chocolate chips, whisk until smooth, pour over the cakes.
For the filling:
In a small bowl beat whipping cream until stiff peaks form fill the cake and put some strawberries put the other cake on top and finish with more whipped cream and strawberries. Easy and delicious!!!