My 100th Post…….. Chocolate Cake With Snow White Frosting

I cannot believe that today I am doing my hundredth post and I am very excited. When I first started nearly three months ago, I never thought that I would be doing this steadily and would reach my 100th post. But, I should thank my children and my family for their encouragement and their faith in me, and also all of you fellow bloggers for your support, comments and your sweet words, you all provided me with the motivation I needed to persevere. Every recipe I posted was a new challenge that made me want to improve and to become a better blogger, or at least try.

And for the occasion of the 100th post today I thought I should celebrate it in a very special way. This is why I made this lovely chocolate cake. I hope you will like it… 🙂

Ingredients:For the cake

150 grams icing sugar ( 1 cup and 1/3 cup)
50 grams flour (1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon)
50 grams corn flour (1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons)
150 grams butter, melted – plus 1 tablespoon to grease the cake tin
6 eggs, separated plus 1 whole egg
40 grams coconut shredded ( 1/2 cup)
2 tablespoons cocoa
2 teaspoons baking powder, a pinch of salt

Preparation:

In a bowl mix the egg yolks with sugar, add the shredded coconut, cocoa, whole egg, flour, baking powder, salt and corn flour and beat well
Preheat the oven to 180C
In a separate bowl beat the egg whites until firm, then fold into the previous mixture, then add the melted butter
Pour the cake mixture into the greased round cake tin, and bake in the middle rack of the oven for about 40-45 minutes, or until a skewer come out dry
Remove from the cake tin and let it cool completely on a wire rack, then slice it in half, it is now ready to be assembled

Ingredients for the decoration:

200 grams of strawberry jam
300 ml fresh cream
2 tablespoons icing sugar
100 grams cooking chocolate
50 grams soft butter, 2 tablespoons icing sugar, 1 tablespoon cocoa plus 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
some fresh strawberry for decoration on the top

Decoration of the cake:

Put the jam on the bottom layer of the cake and cover it with the other half
Mix the fresh cream with the 2 tablespoons of icing sugar until thickens, then spread it on the top of the cake
Mix the butter with the 2 tablespoons of sugar, vanilla extract and the cocoa until smooth. Pipe it along the edge of the cake
Grate the cooking chocolate and spread over, finally put some strawberries for decoration