amazing chocolate cake with strawberries

I love baking and eating chocolate cakes. Baking - because the best chocolate cakes recipes are the easiest ones. Eating because... because it's chocolate, I guess! :)

Modeling the marzipan flowers was a lot of fun, I felt like being back in the kindergarten (my artistic skills have not improved since then but I hope you like the decoration nevertheless).

 The recipe was found in "Chocolat & Chocolats" but I changed it a little bit (I couldn't be myself if I did not change something!)

Ingredients:

 400 g dark chocolate

 200 g butter

 4 eggs

 80 g flour

 200 g sugar

 300 g strawberries

 20 cl whipping cream

Melt butter and 200 g chocolate on low heat (or in the microwave, I don't have one :)). Stir until smooth and let it cool down.

In the meantime, cut the strawberries.

 Preheat the oven to 180^oC.

Add sugar and stir.

Add eggs and stir.

Add flour and guess what...? Yes, stir! :)

Spread half of the batter in baking mold. Put the cut strawberries on top.

Spread the second half of the batter.

Bake for about 35 minutes.

For the icing:

In a small saucepan heat cream. Remove from heat right before it starts to boil and pour over chocolate.

Let stand for a few minutes and then stir until smooth. Put to the fridge for a few hours.

Spread the icing on the cooled down cake.

Decorate with marzipan flowers.

Bon appétit!