chocolate water cake with berries

by Elena Levati
chocolate water cake with berries

Chocolate water cake with berries: a delicious, light and genuine chocolate cake, butter and eggs free, turns into a very special birthday cake thanks to the red fruit curd!

On Monday we celebrated our Olivia’s birthday and this is the cake I made for her together with her big sister! For a thousand very practical reasons, I needed a cake easy and quick to prepare, but at the same time I would be sure to get her heart-shaped eyes!

I succeeded with this Chocolate water cake with berries.

The base of the cake is the same that I had already published in this other post, but if there I covered the cake with a chocolate ganache and raspberry, here I used my beloved red fruits curd: the delicious red fruit version of classic lemon curd; an exquisite cream prepared with black cherries, strawberries, raspberries and blueberries!

And finally, many, many fresh berries!

chocolate water cake with berries
torta all'acqua al cioccolato con frutti di bosco

CHOCOLATE WATER CAKE WITH BERRIES

A delicious and spectacular effortlessly cake! The eggs and butter free base is ready to bake in 5 minutes and become special thanks to the red fruit curd and lots of berries!
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
refrigerate time 1 hour
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italiana
Servings 6 persons

Ingredients
  

For the chocolate water cake:

  • 300 g flour
  • 30 g bitter cocoa
  • 150 g white or brown sugar
  • 10 g baking powder
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • vanilla
  • 120 ml light and delicate quality seed oil
  • 360 ml of water
  • 60 g chopped dark chocolate

For the red fruit curd:

  • 200 g pitted sour cherries
  • 100 g clean strawberries
  • 100 g mixed berries
  • 80 g sugar
  • 15 g cornstarch
  • 2 egg yolks.

To complete:

  • mixed berries
  • sour cherries

Instructions
 

Prepare the cake dough.

  • Turn on the oven to 180 ° C, pour the flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder, salt, vanilla and chocolate into a bowl.
  • Mix and make a hole in the center.
  • Pour the oil and water into the hole and mix with a whisk to get a lump-free dough.Pour the mixture into a 24 cm buttered pan lined with parchment paper (or floured) and bake for 40 minutes.
  • Remove the water cake from the oven and let it cool completely.

Meanwhile prepare the curd.

  • Put the small fruits and the pitted sour cherries in a pan, add 60 g of sugar and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes.
  • Then divide the juice from the fruit using a colander: blend the fruit very well to obtain a homogeneous puree and set the juice aside.
  • In a saucepan, beat the egg yolks together with the remaining 20 g of sugar, add the cornstarch and beat again.
  • Pour in the juice, always whisking and finally mix with the fruit puree.Bring to the heat and cook for about 10 minutes so that the cream thickens.
  • Let it cool in the fridge.
  • When the water cake is cold, remove it from the mold, spread the entire surface with the red fruit curd and decorate with fresh berries.
  • Refrigerate 1 hour before serving.

Notes

Keep the chocolate and berries water cake in the refrigerator and eat within 3 days.
Keyword chocolate cake, chocolate water cake, water cake, chocolate and berries cake, birthday cake, easy birthday cake,

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