What's better when the weather is nice than a piece of delicious refrigerator cake? Strawberry season is finally here and we're celebrating it with a heavenly mole cake with strawberries! Find out why this cake is so popular and how everyone can prepare it at home! Enjoy it!
What makes the mole cake so special
Is there anyone who doesn't know mole cake? More of a tart than a cake, this classic is loved by young and old. A chocolatey base filled with bananas and cream, that's all you really need. You guessed it right – an impressive shape. And this cake has it - it looks like a small mound of dirt, as if there is a mole living under it.
Don't like bananas? Or are you craving a lighter dessert? No worries, because imSummer gets the recipea fresh update - instead of bananas, use strawberries, which harmonize perfectly with the chocolate dough and give the cake a summery touch. Traditionally, the cake is prepared with gelatin to give it the dome-like shape. We show how to do this with a cream made from mascarpone, cream and cream cheese.
A great chocolate base filled with fresh strawberries and light mascarpone cream - that's what sets this recipe apart. Although the chocolatey hill looks complicated to make, this recipe is absolutely guaranteed to be a success. Try it out yourself!
Ingredients:
For the chocolate batter:
- 140 g soft butter
- 3 eggs, at room temperature
- 150 g flour type 405
- 125g sugar
- 40 g Cocoa powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- 5 tbsp milk
For the filling and cream:
- 500g fresh strawberries
- 1 cup (200 g) cream
- 125 g Mascarpone
- 50g powdered sugar
- 1 pack vanilla sugar
- 100 g dark chocolate shavings
- 100 g strawberry jam (optional)
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Cover the bottom of a 26 cm springform pan with baking paper and grease the edge.
- In a mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar on high speed until smooth and creamy. Gradually stir in the eggs until everything is well mixed.
- Sift the dry ingredients – flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt – and mix with the butter mixture. Add milk and mix until a smooth dough forms.
- Pour the finished batter into the springform pan and smooth it out with a rubber spatula.
- Bake the chocolate cake on the middle rack for about 30 minutes. Then let cool completely on a cake rack.
- In the meantime, prepare the filling for the mole cake. In a large bowl, mix the cream cheese, cream and mascarpone with the powdered sugar and vanilla sugar.
- Clean, wash and pat dry the strawberries. Roughly chop a third of it and stir it into the cream together with the chocolate shavings. Store the cream in the refrigerator until you are ready to assemble the cake.
- As soon as the cake has cooled, hollow out the top part of the base with a tablespoon to a depth of approx. 5 mm, leaving an edge of around 1 cm. Crumble the hollowed pieces and set aside.
- Spread the jam onto the spooned base (if using) and then place the whole strawberries on the base, flat side down.
- Spread the mascarpone cream in a dome shape over the strawberries and smooth the surface. Spread the chocolate cake crumbs over the dome and press lightly so that they stand.
- Place the mole cake with strawberries in the refrigerator until serving.
More dessert recipes with strawberries and mascarponecan be found here.
How to refine the dessert
The mole cake is aGerman classic with a long tradition. But that doesn't mean you can't vary the recipe. For example, instead of strawberries or bananas, you can use other fruits. The cream can also be prepared according to another recipe, the main thing is that it is firm so that the “hill” is stable. In the original recipe, gelatin or cream stiff is used for this purpose.
Another option would be to make the cake with vanilla instead of chocolate cake. Although the light version of the mole cake does not exactly correspond to the name, it tastes just as delicious and, in combination with strawberries and a light coconut cream, is a real hit in the summer.
