Strawberry & Chocolate Overload Cake!

 A Super Short Post!

I saw these beautiful cakes on

Viva La Cupcake!

My grandson wanted his favorite cake for his birthday..Strawberry. So I decided to "overload" it with a bit of chocolate :o)

This Strawberry Cake has been around for years.

It's been a favorite in our family at

 least since I was 5 years old!

So..so easy. All the ingredients are dumped into the mixer bowl and 2 1/2 minutes later, it's ready for the oven.

  Hershey bars, Kit Kats & Whoppers ..YUM!

I used 9 1/4 Hershey Bars. Just use a sharp, heavy knife to cut through the scored side of the last bar. There will be one skinny opening left in which to place it.

  I baked three 6 inch layers. 

My homemade strawberry icing is very moist..

so I used a store bought container of strawberry

icing to frost the sides of the cake.

This was to ensure that the chocolate bars stayed

securely "glued" to the cake.

I used my homemade icing to frost between the layers as well as on the top layer.

I then tied a ribbon around the bars.

Next I poured on the Whoppers and placed the

mini Kit Kats atop the cake.

  Strawberry Cake

1~ box Duncan Hines white cake mix

1~3 oz box strawberry jello

*1~16 oz container frozen sweetened strawberries

4 eggs

3/4 cup water

3/4 cup canola oil

1 teaspoon vanilla

* Use only 1/2 of the strawberries in the cake.

You will use the other 1/2 in the icing.

I use most of the juice in the cake as too much juice will make the icing runny.

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Place all ingredients in mixer bowl.

Mix on low speed 30 seconds till combined.

Then mix 2 minutes on medium speed.

Spray three 6 inch round baking pans with Pam.

Pour 2 cups batter into each prepared pan.

Bake @ 350 for 30 minutes.

Strawberry Icing

1 stick butter (softened)

Remaining 1/2 of strawberries

1 box 10x sugar

 1 teaspoon vanilla

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Place all ingredients in mixer bowl. 

Mix on med/hi till light and fluffy.

This is one YUMMY cake!

Sweet 

&

Happy Baking

from

Sugartown Sweets!

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