Chocolate Strawberry Pound Cake

Chocolate Strawberry Pound Cake is a deep, rich chocolate pound cake infused with strawberries.  It’s an easy and simple, homemade, no hassle recipe, that’s perfect for any time of year, but especially summer.  And since there are strawberries mixed in the cake and icing, we’ll say it’s healthy.

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What is Chocolate Strawberry pound cake?

Chocolate strawberry pound cake is not a chocolate strawberry bundt cake.  Even though I baked this in a bundt (Baby’s got bundt.  Sorry, couldn’t resist.), it is not a bundt cake. It is not a strawberry cake with chocolate ganache, nor is it a delish strawberry pound cake. 

Chocolate strawberry pound cake is a divine, thick, chocolaty pound cake with pieces of strawberries settled wonderfully throughout the cake. The two flavors blend together magically and create a uniquely delicious dessert  experience that will not soon be forgotten.

Chocolate pound cake

Yes, it starts with chocolate pound cake and goes from there. 

I started with my cream cheese pound cake recipe, added 1/2 cup of cocoa and between 1 1/2 and  2 cups of strawberries.  So easy peasy.  I then added a yummy strawberry frosting from Pook’s Pantry.  That’s optional, because the cake is just as amazing naked.

What ingredients do I need?

This simple recipe requires 8 ingredients.  The key ingredients are:

• Butter – please make sure it’s real butter and at room temperature.
• Cream Cheese – I used full fat cream cheese and room temperature is best.
• Granulated Sugar
• Eggs – Please use room temperature eggs and make sure you beat well after adding each one.
• Flour – All purpose flour is just fine.
• Cocoa – I used 1/4 cup dark cocoa and 1/4 cup regular cocoa.
• Strawberries – Cut in small, not tiny, pieces.  This is a dense, moist cake without strawberries.  Strawberries give it even more moisture.

  

Can I use frozen Strawberries?

Yes!!!  This is great if you want to make this cake out of season or if you don’t want to break into your 401K to buy highly priced fresh strawberries.

Thaw the strawberries first and slice them into small, not tiny, pieces (picture above).  Make sure you pat them dry, as these are more moist than unfrozen ones.

How do you add Strawberries to cakes?

Have you baked cakes with fruit and the fruit falls to the bottom?  It turns into a fruit upside down cake, without it being an upside down cake.  Here’s how to prevent that.

Measure 2 or 3 Tablespoons of flour into a bowl or plastic container that can be sealed. Use cocoa for chocolate cakes and flour for all other cakes.

You can roll the fruit pieces in the flour or cocoa, so they are lightly coated on all sides.  I put the flour/cocoa and strawberries in a sealed plastic container and shook it until strawberries were lightly coated.

Fold the strawberries into the cake batter gently. Evenly distributing the fruit throughout the batter; do not overmix.

Can I freeze Chocolate Strawberry pound cake?

Yes, and texture wise it freezes just fine.  However, I’ve frozen this cake twice and it does not taste as good after serving freezer time. I am including freezing instructions below, but please pay attention to my warning.

To freeze the cake or a portion of the cake:

• Cool the cake completely
• Wrap the cake 2 or 3 times in plastic wrap and aluminum foil.  I usually use just aluminum foil.
• Put in large freezer storage bag.  I skip this sometimes and just freeze in foil.

To freeze in slices:

• You can wrap your slices individually in plastic wrap and aluminum foil or only aluminum foil.  Then place them in a freezer storage bag or container.
• You can also slice the cake and put slices of parchment paper  between the slices.  Then wrap the sliced cake just like wrapping the whole cake or portion of the cake above.

Toppings for Chocolate Strawberry pound cake

Really, this cake stands alone and needs no toppings.  But, if we must go there, and we must, here are some suggestions.  

• More Strawberries
• Blueberries
• Ice cream.  Vanilla is the go to, but maybe a chocolate.  Just throwing it out there.
• Whipped Cream.  Lots and lots. 
• Nutella – I know, straight from the depths of hell, but great combined with strawberry
• Chocolate or hot fudge sauce.  Just add to the sinfulness of the cake.

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• Cold Oven Cream Cheese Pound Cake
• Strawberry Almond Pound Cake

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