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Strawberry Cream Cheese Chocolate Layered Cake

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 devils food cake mix prepared as box says
  • 1/2 cup oil or sub applesauce, or as box indicates
  • 1 ¼ cup water or as box indicates
  • 3 eggs or as box indicates
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Frosting

  • 8 oz container cool whip **could use two tubs and omit whipping cream or sugar
  • 4 oz cream cheese
  • 1 cup Heavy Whipping cream
  • 2 Tbls. sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Glaze

  • 1 cup Freezer strawberry jam

Instructions

  • Prepare the Devils Food cake mix as box instructions recommend. To lower fat you could, substitute applesauce for oil.  Add chocolate chips to the batter.
  • Pour into two round cake pans, that have been sprayed with cooking spray (you could even line the bottom with parchment paper for easier removal if you'd like)   Bake as box directs.
  • Cool as long as you possibly can at least one hour.  You could place them in fridge if you wanted for a short time til cool enough to frost
  • Beat together Cool whip and slightly softened cream cheese.  I like to soften mine in the microwave for about 30 second on half power, repeat if necessary, but don't do it too fast you want it softened not hot.
  • Add to the cream cheese mixture, and beat again Whipping cream, sugar and vanilla.   
  • For the glaze. I took freezer strawberry jam, watered it down slightly maybe 2Tbsp water, but err on the too little water side you can always add more, stir to a syrup consistency, and heat up in the microwave just before spreading on the whipped cream to make sure it is smooth and really easy to spread.
  • Now you can do as many layers as you want.
  • I cut one of the cake layers in half, and frosted three layers.
  • You simply frost the cake with the whipped cream mixture and glaze with strawberry.
  • Then add another layer and repeat.

Notes

**I actually would have been okay with just the cool whip, but it totally deflated when I mixed it, then there wasn't enough to frost the cake, I happened to have some cream, so I whipped that up and added about 2 Tbls. sugar and 1 tsp vanilla - you could use two tubs of Cool whip instead.