Dense Chocolate With Strawberry And Cream Cheese

BISMILLAH HIR RAHMAN NIR RAHEEM

Ingredients:

For The Sauce:

Fresh strawberries - 200 gms
Cinnamon a pinch

For the Cake:

Eggs - 2
Sifted self raising flour - 1 cup

Cocoa powder- 1/4 cup
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Castor Sugar - 3/4 cup
Butter - 100 gms
Baking powder - 1 tsp

For Frosting:

Mascarpone cheese - 1 tbsp
Fresh or canned whipped cream

Method:

- Slice strawberries and place them on a low flame, letting them reduce in their own juices.
- Spike it with a dash of cinnamon and keep aside.
- For the cake, mix eggs, flour, cocoa and butter and baking powder to form a batter.
- Fold in the sugar and vanilla essence.
- Line a cake tin with butter paper, pour in the cake batter and bake at around 180 degrees for 20-30 mins.
- Take it out and let it cool.
- In a deep dish pour in the strawberry reduction and place a thick slice of dense chocolate cake on it.
- Whip up cream and mascarpone cheese together and pipe a healthy dollop of cream cheese over the cake.
- Garnish with mint leaves and fresh strawberries.