Chocolate Birthday Cake to Die For

You will need a Chocolate Cake

Make your own favourite recipe or use my mums!

4 ozs (113 grams) butter                                              

4 ozs (113 grams) sugar

3 eggs

vanilla

4-5 desert spoons cocoa

21/2 – 3 cups SR Flour

Milk  1-2 cups

Preheat oven to 150 degrees (F) 66 degrees (C).

Cream butter and sugar; add eggs continue to mix well.  Add vanilla then flour and cocoa mixing enough milk to make a good consistency, light and fluffy.

Grease and flour round or square cake tin, pour in cake mixture and bake in oven for approximately 45 minutes until cooked (center springs back when cooked).

Cool on cake rack.

Slice cake in half through center to layer.

For Topping you will need

 Thickened Cream

Strawberry Jam

Raspberries

Strawberries

Grated Chocolate

Separate top and bottom, spread bottom layer with strawberry jam

Mix cream until whipped

Spread bottom cake layer with half of the whipped cream      

Top this layer with half the strawberries (cut in quarters) and half raspberries

Place top cake layer on top and spread with the remaining whipped cream

Place remaining raspberries and strawberries (cut in half) on cream

Sprinkle with grated chocolate

You could add tinned fruit (well drained and dried) if you were not able to buy fresh fruit.