Dressed Up Valentine Cake
By
Jewel Hall
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10
Blue Ribbon Recipe
This cake looks impressive, but the cake itself is very simple to prepare. Then you have the fun of dipping strawberries and styling the cake plate for your sweetheart. Your valentine will love this delicious strawberry walnut cake. The smooth chocolate ganache glaze literally melts in your mouth like a truffle. It's a beautiful, unique and scrumptious Valentine's Day dessert.
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Ingredients
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1 boxwhite cake mix
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1 boxstrawberry Jell-O, 3 oz
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3/4 cvegetable oil
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4 mediumeggs, beaten
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1 cwalnuts, chopped
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4 Tbspall-purpose flour, plus more for coating pan
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1 pkgfrozen, sliced, sweetened strawberries (thawed), 10 oz.
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ICING / GLAZE
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16 ozbitter sweet chocolate
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1/2 cunsalted butter
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1 cheavy cream
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CHOCOLATE COATED WHOLE STRAWBERRIES
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24-30 largefresh strawberries with stem and green leaves left on
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6 ozwhite chocolate
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8 ozdark chocolate
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DECORATIONS
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2gold colored chargers
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12red long stem roses
How to Make Dressed Up Valentine Cake
- DECORATION: Cut stems of red long stem roses so they will crisscross between the 2 gold chargers and the buds will fully protrude and be exposed in a complete circle between the chargers. Place cake on cake plate and place on top of chargers. You may find it easier to poke the rosebuds between the chargers after the plate with the cake is placed on top. If you do it that way, you will simply trim the stems and poke them in far enough to hold and expose the buds.
- Once you have gotten the roses set correctly between the charges under the cake, take the chocolate coated strawberries and place half on top of a cake and half around the bottom of the cake. Mix the colors to dress up the cake. The chocolate coated strawberries, gold chargers, and red roses makes the cake very attractive.