Chocolate cake with nuts and strawberries

The recipe for a delicious homemade chocolate cake with nuts and strawberries. We make it for the holidays and just like that, to please loved ones.

Ingredients

• For cakes:
• Sour cream - 400 g
• Chicken egg - 4 pcs.
• Sugar - 350 g
• Cocoa powder - 6 tbsp. l.
• Vanilla sugar - 2 sachets
• Wheat flour - 440 g
• Soda slaked with vinegar - 2 tsp (without slide)
• Dark chocolate (with hazelnuts) - 100 g
• For cream:
• Condensed milk - 2 cans
• Butter - 400 g
• Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet
• Cocoa powder - 6 tbsp. l.
• Cognac - 4 tbsp. l.
• For filling:
• Strawberries (frozen) - 200 g
• For impregnation:
• strawberry juice
• Cognac - 6 tbsp. l.
• For decoration:
• Dark chocolate - 80 g
• Pine nuts - 50 g

Directions

1. It is necessary to bake two cakes. To prepare one cake mix 2 eggs with sugar. Add 200 g sour cream, 220 g flour, 3 tbsp. l. cocoa, a bag of vanilla sugar, a teaspoon without a hill of soda, slaked with vinegar, crumble half a bar of chocolate.
2. Pour the dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
3. Prepare cream. Whisk room temperature butter with condensed milk, cocoa, vanilla sugar and 4 tbsp. l. cognac.
4. To impregnate the cakes, drain the juice from frozen berries, combine with cognac (6 tablespoons).
5. Cut the cakes into two parts, cutting off the edges. For the filling, combine the cut edges of the cakes with frozen berries and 4 tbsp. l. cream. You can visually divide the filling into 3 parts.
6. Soak each cake.
7. Lubricate with cream.
8. Distribute the filling.
9. Do not spread the filling on the topmost cake, but soak and grease with cream.
10. Decorate the cake with chocolate and nuts. Remove the chocolate cake with strawberries and nuts in the cold, after 4 hours you can serve.