Birthday Cake

Name: Birthday Cake
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: 300 g sugar; 125 g Soft butter In Smaller Pieces; tsp coarse salt; 2 eggs; 300 g wheat flour; 4 tbsp cocoa powder; 1 tsp baking soda; 250 ml buttermilk; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar; 2 vanilla pods; 3 tbsp icing sugar; 600 ml creme fraiche (30%); 100 g Coarsely Chopped dark chocolate (About 55%); 500 g Fresh strawberries; 1 Edible Flower Or lemon balm Leaves

Birthday cake should be something special - here it takes the form of a chocolate cake with soft vanilla cream and fresh strawberries.

Ingredients

Chocolate Bundle

Sugar	300 g
Soft butter In Smaller Pieces	125 g
Coarse salt	tsp
Eggs	2
Wheat flour	300 g
Cocoa powder	4 tbsp
Baking soda	1 tsp
Buttermilk	250 ml
White wine vinegar	1 tbsp

Vanilla Cream

Vanilla pods	2
Icing sugar	3 tbsp
Creme fraiche (30%)	600 ml
Coarsely Chopped dark chocolate (About 55%)	100 g

Fresh strawberries	500 g
Edible Flower Or lemon balm Leaves	1

Instructions

Step 1

Whip sugar, butter and salt with a hand mixer until it is light and airy. Beat the eggs in.

Step 2

Mix flour, cocoa and baking soda and then stir in egg mixture.

Step 3

Add buttermilk and white wine vinegar and stir well.

Step 4

Heat the oven to 175 °. Put a piece of baking paper between the ring and the bottom of a spring-based tin (approximately 22 cm in diameter) - butter the sides. Spread the mixture evenly into the tin and place in the middle of the oven to cook for about 50 minutes. Leave to cool completely on a baking rack.