TRIPLE CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease 2 9" round pans.
• In a small bowl slice 2 cups of strawberries and add 1 Tbsp brown sugar and stir to coat, set aside.
• In another bowl haul the remainder of the strawberries, half or leave whole.
• Add the remaining Tbsp of brown sugar and stir to coat, set aside.
• In a large bowl add sugar and butter, beat at medium high speed until smooth.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• Combine flour, cocoa, soda and salt and gradually beat into the egg, butter mixture.
• Melt the chocolate into the boiling water, or microwave to melt chocolate.
• Gradually beat into the batter (The batter is thin).
• Divide the batter pouring it into the two pans.
• Bake for 30 minutes.
• Cool in pans for 20 minutes, then remove from the pans and cool completely.
• In a bowl beat cream and confectioners' sugar until slightly thick at medium speed.
• Add the melted white chocolate to the cream increase the speed to medium high and beat until stiff peaks form.
• Put 1 1/2 cup of the cream in a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip, set aside.
• When cake has completely cooled spread 1/2 the jam on the the top of the bottom layer.
• Spread the other 1/2 of jam on what will be the bottom of the top layer.
• Use 2 cups of whipping cream and spread on top of jam of bottom layer of cake.
• Arrange the strawberry slices evenly over the whipped cream layer.
• Then place top layer of cake on the cake with the jam side going on top of the strawberries.
• Use remaining whipped cream spread evenly to cover the cake.
• Arrange the whole or halved strawberries on the top of the cake leaving about a 1" boarder on the outer edge.
• Take the pastry bag and pipe rosettes around the edge of cake.
• Enjoy.