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Strawberry Vanilla Drip Cake

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Ingredients
  

Cake

  • 2 ½ c. flour
  • 2 ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¾ cup room temp butter
  • 1 ½ c. sugar
  • 3 T. canola oil
  • 1 T. vanilla
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 ¼ c. whole milk

Frosting

  • 1 ½ c. butter
  • 1 ½ c. shortening
  • 12 c. powdered sugar
  • 1 T. vanilla
  • 6 –7 T. milk

Drip

  • 6 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • ½ cup heavy cream heated just until almost a boil

Decoration

  • Large strawberries

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven 350
  • Spray three 8-inch cake pans with Pam and line bottoms with parchment rounds.
  • Beat butter, sugar, oil and vanilla 4 mins.
  • Add eggs.
  • Combine flour, bak powder and salt and add half of this to the mixer.
  • Slowly add milk.
  • Add rest of the dry ingredients. Don't be alarmed if it looks clumpy!
  • Divide into pans and bake for 22-25 mins.
  • Cool and then I like to freeze the layers.

Frosting

  • Beat butter and shortening.
  • Add half the sugar on low!
  • Add vanilla and slowly start adding the milk.Add rest of the sugar.

Assembly

  • Lay one cake on platter and top with 1 cup of frosting.
  • Repeat for next layer and top with 3rd cake.
  • Frost entire cake.

Drip

  • Pour hot cream over chips and let sit 1 minute in heat proof bowl. Whisk smooth and pour into squeeze bottle.
  • Squeeze drip around cake and then fill in the top of cake with the extra chocolate.
  • Chill.
  • Pipe on more frosting in swirls and add strawberries!