Strawberries & cakes simply belong together, whether on a simple sponge flan with strawberries, a cream cake or, as in today’s recipe, hidden in a German mole cake.
A mole cake is usually baked with bananas, today we change the bananas seasonally for fruity strawberries & hide them under a fluffy stracciatella cream & cake crumbs. Have fun baking 😉
Cooked/Baked today: German Mole Cake with Strawberries
Difficulty: Medium
Preparation Time: 1 hour & 15 minutes
Category: Baking Recipes, Coffee & Cake, Cake Recipes, Recipes with Strawberries, Simple Cake Recipes, German Cake Recipes
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German Mole Cake with Strawberries
Ingredients for 1 German Mole Cake with Strawberries:
…for cake base:
- 175 grams flour
- 100 grams butter
- 100 grams sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 75 milliliters milk
- 25 grams cocoa powder
- 1 sachet vanilla sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
…for cream filling:
- 500 grams fresh strawberries
- 400 milliliters cream
- 100 grams dark chocolate shavings
- 2 heaping tablespoons vanilla yogurt
- 1 heaping tablespoon sour cream
- 2 sachet vanilla sugar
- 2 sachet cream stabilizer
Required kitchen gadgets, helper & preparations:
- Small bowl to mix dry ingredients
- Mixing bowl
- Mixer or kitchen machine
- Cake ring (26cm) or springform pan
- Baking sheet + baking paper
Instructions:
…for batter:
Preheat the oven to 180°C (top/bottom heat) in good time. Melt 100 grams of butter in the microwave or on the stove. Clean the strawberries and remove the green stalk.
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Preparations
For the batter, put 175 grams of flour, 25 grams of baked cocoa & 1 teaspoon of baking powder in a small bowl and mix. Next, put 2 large eggs, 100 grams of sugar & 1 sachet of vanilla sugar in a mixing bowl & whisk together for 2 – 3 minutes with a blender or food processor until white & fluffy.
Then add the flour mixture, 75 milliliters of milk & 100 grams of melted butter to the egg-sugar mixture & mix everything well until you got a smooth batter.
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Preparing & Baking Batter
When that’s done, place a cake ring (26cm) on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, pour the dough into the cake ring, smooth down evenly & bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven, then get the cake out of the oven & allow to cool completely.
…for cream filling & mole cake:
Place 400 milliliters of cream, 2 heaping tablespoons of vanilla yogurt, 1 heaping tablespoon of sour cream & 2 sachets each of vanilla sugar & cream stabilizer in a large mixing bowl & beat until stiff with a mixer for 2 – 3 minutes. Finally fold in 100 grams of dark chocolate shavings and then allow to chill in the fridge until further use.
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Layering Mole Cake
Use a tablespoon to cut out the cooled sponge cake about 1 cm deep, leaving a 1 – 2 cm wide edge. Next top the cake with the strawberries & cover everything with the prepared stracciatella cream, then smooth out until you get a little “cream mound”.
Finally crumble the dough leftovers in a separate bowl & gently press on the cream to give the cake a “molehill look”. Then cool the done mole cake in the fridge until servings or dish up immediately. Have fun baking!
Video Tutorial:
Watch the video tutorial to see the recipe and the preparation method precisely (German Audio only, English Subtitles available):