Strawberry & chocolate cake

Today is my sister's birthday and I made her a proper birthday cake. It wasn't as easy as I though to come up with an idea as she is quite picky with things she eats. I was told that it has to contain berries, cream cheese filling and chocolate and it has to be decorated with silver pearls. Really wish that I could dictate what I want in my birthday cake and then it would magically appear out of nowhere, but that's never going to happen. Anyway, while I was making the cake, my sister scraped the bowls for the cake and for the filling so already during making it I knew the cake would be delicious. The moist and perfectly chocolatey sponge, the sweet and juicy strawberries coupled with the cream cheese filling just make an irresistible combination...

Ingredients
Sponge:
- 3 eggs
- 200g flour
- 200g sugar
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 200g butter, softened
- 100g milk chocolate chips

Filling:
- 50g white chocolate, melted
- 150g fat free Philadelphia
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- 400g strawberries, sliced
- Silver pearls, to decorate.

Directions
Heat the oven to 160C fan / 180C. Butter and line a springform baking tin or a bundt cake tin. In a big bowl, mix together eggs, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, soft butter and sifted flour. Lastly add the chocolate chips and stir until they have spread out evenly. Place the mixture in a cake tin and bake for around 25 minutes (if using normal springform tin, then a bit longer). Leave to cool in a tin for 5 minutes and then cool completely on a wire rack.

For the filling, melt the chocolate in a bowl over hot water. Then let it cool a bit and whip in the Philadelphia cheese and the icing sugar, keep whipping until the filling is smooth.

To assemble the cake, cut the cake into half. Spread 2/3 of the filling on the bottom half of the cake, then cover it with strawberries and place the other half on top of the strawberries. Then spread the rest of the filling evenly on the top of the cake and decorate with the rest of strawberries. Then sprinkle over with some silver pears or icing sugar or any other cake decoration.