Divine White Chocolate Strawberry Cream Cake

Sep 25, 2015

Divine White Chocolate Strawberry Cream Cake

This delicious, looking cake is made with a wonderful range of ingredients including Divine white chocolate, strawberries flavoured with orange and white chocolate.

Serves: 1 large cake
You will need: 2 x 20.5cm sponge tin, greased and base-lined.

Ingredients:

For the sponge:

1 half x 100g bars Divine white chocolate.
200g unsalted butter, diced.
3 large free range eggs, at room temperature.
150g caster sugar.
Grated zest of half unwaxed orange.
200g self-raising flour.

For the filling:

500g ripe strawberries.
Grated zest and juice of half unwaxed orange.
1 tablespoon caster sugar.
1 x 100g bar of Divine white chocolate.
150ml double or whipping cream.
Icing sugar for dusting.

Method:

Heat the oven 180C/350F/Gas 4.
To make the sponge, break up the chocolate and melt very gently with the butter. Remove the bowl from the heat and leave to cool until needed.
Break the eggs into the bowl of a food mixer. Add the sugar and orange zest. Using the whisk attachment, whisk on full power for about 4 minutes or until the mixture is extremely thick and foamy. It’s ready when the whisk leaves a ribbon-like trail of mixture when you lift it out of the mixture. Gently stir the chocolate mixture then whisk it briefly into the egg mixture. Turn off the power as soon as it is combined to avoid over-mixing. Add the flour and gently fold in using a large metal spoon. Divide the mixture between the two tins, and spread evenly.
Bake in the heated oven for 20 minutes until a light golden brown and the sponge spring back when gently pressed. Run a round bladed knife around the inside of the tins, just to loosen the sponges, turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
To make the filling, wash the strawberries and save half of the best looking ones for decoration. Thinly slice the rest into a bowl. Add the orange zest and juice, and the sugar and mix gently. Leave for 10 minutes for the flavours to develop. Grate the white chocolate and gently fold into the whipped cream. Save the rest for decoration.
To assemble, set one sponge on a serving plate and spoon on the strawberries and juice. Cover with the chocolate cream then top with the second sponge. Decorate with the reserved strawberries and grated chocolate and dust with icing sugar, serve.
The assembled cake can be stores in an airtight container in the fridge for 24 hours.