I made a chocolate cake with raspberry filling and white chocolate frosting for a birthday celebration. The celebration didn't go quite as planned, so I have a slight idea of what this cake tastes like based on the scraps and leftovers, but I did not get the pleasure of trying a slice of it. I started by making a chocolate cake mix in my 9 inch round cake pans. I let those bake and cool while trying to catch up on my work and chores. I then received a text saying that the celebration was going to start at six, and looking at the clock and seeing that it was 4 already jolted me into action as I had no idea where the time had gone.
My room mate was kind enough to offer help, so I had her make up the raspberry filling for the cake, which ended up being a sort of homemade jam. While she did that, I made up the frosting, which I barely had enough of, because I was low on my supply of powdered sugar. I made my basic butter cream frosting and added half a bag of melted white chocolate chips to it to give it a white chocolate flavor.
To assemble the cake, I first cut the cake rounds so they were level on the top. Next I cut each round horizontally, so it turned the two layers into four layers. In between the first two layers, I put the raspberry jam filling. Next I put a layer of the white chocolate frosting and finished with the other two layers of cake with raspberry filling in between.
I covered the whole cake with the rest of my frosting, and in my speed to get the frosting on, the super moist cake decided it wanted to break off causing a crummy mixture of frosting and cake around the edges of the cake.
I took some leftover raspberries and decorated the top of the cake to finish it off. Upon reaching the destination, I discovered that the celebration was cancelled, so I left the cake for the birthday girl to enjoy when she got the chance.
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