Sugar & Spice by Celeste

Happy Birthday Brad! January 2nd was Brad's birthday, and we celebrated with a delicious Dark Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Cream Cheese icing.  I even added freshly sliced strawberries in between the two cake layers to make it that much more decadent.  On the side?  Chocolate covered strawberries, of course! I love making birthday cakes and it's become a little thing lately for everyone to give me some sort of birthday cake "challenge" on their birthday.  Brad wanted a cake that incorporated dark chocolate and strawberries, so this is what I came up with. The result was pretty delicious, if I do say so myself.  Brad even had seconds, and when that happens you KNOW it's good!  I combined two different elements from two of my favorite cake recipes...I whipped up Hershey's recipe for Dark Chocolate Cake (I've used this recipe time and time again!), and combined it with Paula Deen's recipe for Strawberry Cream Cheese icing from her Simply De...

Of all the cakes on my blog, this Strawberry Cake continues to be a standout family favorite. I can't tell you how many times I've made this throughout the years.   Yesterday, we celebrated my husband, Brad's, birthday.  We sure do love this guy, and we're constantly laughing at all of his antics...We think he's pretty great.💓   He requested this strawberry-filled, deliciously sweet dessert for the big day, so Caroline and I got to work whipping one up.  It has a strawberry cream cheese icing that's just perfect, as well. I prefer using fresh strawberries and pureeing them myself, but you can use frozen in a pinch. Simply Delicious Strawberry Cake Adapted from:  Cooking with Paula Deen   magazine - May/June 2008 Ingredients: 1 box white cake mix 1 (3-ounce) box strawberry flavored instant gelatin 1 lb. fresh strawberries, pureed 4 large eggs 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1/4 cup water Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe follows) Garnish: sliced fres...