Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake… just the kind of cavity you will ♥

Eggless Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake … as promised last week, here it is, the recipe for this stunning cake. There are cakes and there are cakes, then there are special cakes. This is one of the special ones. They might look like a ton of work, but hey, read on…

Last week I shared the Secret To My Cavity Cake, the how to make it video. Here’s a delicious version of the cavity cake, three layers fill the cavity – dark chocolate, vanilla bean white chocolate and strawberry jelly from scratch. I always have frozen berries in my freezer but you could use fresh ones too. The recipe is a simple one bowl eggless sponge, and the way to make the cavity is as simple as it looks.

WHAT IS A CAVITY CAKE?… you might ask! It’s a cake with a cavity in the middle filled with all sorts of deliciousness. I’ve written a post about it last week, and it’s quite favourite kind of cake at my place. It was also an original idea that came to me one day while playing with cakes and steel cake/cookie cutters!

The steel baking molds I use are from my first visit to Old Delhi, a little shop I found tucked away behind a banyan tree. I returned to that shop in Lal Kuan several times over the years picking up more bakeware, each time making better choices I think! Old Delhi with all its madness and mayhem, the crowds and cacophony, the dusty old buildings, the colour and the energy has always pulled me in.

That was a time almost 20 years ago when vintage food styling props and collectibles, cookie and cake cutters, mousse rings and more meant a trip into Old Delhi, but now good old Amazon brings everything home!

And so with my vast collection of cake and cookie cutters, one lazy summer afternoon, the cavity cake was born! Some things just work out well and keep getting reinvented in sooooo many different forms. This Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake is just one of them. I’ve made many versions of the cavity cake, in different flavours and shapes as well! They’re always a hit. With a little prior planning, you are going to love making these on a roll!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake

Another delicious version of the cavity cake, three layers fill the cavity – dark chocolate, vanilla bean white chocolate and strawberry jelly from scratch. I always have frozen berries in my freezer but you could use fresh ones too. The recipe is a simple one bowl eggless sponge, and the way to make the cavity is as simple as it looks. 

Course Dessert

Cuisine American, British

Keyword agar agar, baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggless, eggless baking, eggless layered cake, fruit, homemade, strawberries, sweet

Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

8 hours hours

Servings 6

Ingredients

6″ eggless sponge

• 220 g buttermilk/plain chaach
• 60 g light oil
• 130 g sugar
• 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Pinch salt
• 40 g whole wheat flour
• 160 g all-purpose flour

Chocolate layer

• 75 g cream
• 50 g dark chocolate chopped

Vanilla white chocolate layer

• 100 ml cream
• 15 g sugar
• 1/4 tsp agar agar
• 1/2 vanilla bean scraped {save shell for strawberry jelly}
• 20 g white chocolate

Strawberry jelly

• 100 g frozen strawberries {or fresh}
• 100 g water
• 40 g sugar
• 1/2 vanilla bean shell
• 1/2 tsp agar agar

Instructions

6″ eggless sponge

• Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease and line a 6″ dessert ring lined with foil or a loose bottom baking tin
• In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and whisk until smooth.
• Turn into the prepared tin and bake for 40-45 minutes until the tester comes out clean.
• Cool completely and level the cake.
• Take a 4″ dessert ring, centralise it and few push it all the way through. Gently remove the cut out, transfer the ring gently to your serving platter. Slice one 1 cm layer from the cut out and return to the cavity and push into place to make the base.
• Moisten the sponge if desired.
• Pour over the chocolate layer. Place in freezer for 30 minutes to set.
• Next pour the vanilla layer. Place in freezer for 30 minutes to set.
• Lastly pour the strawberry jelly layer. Refrigerate for a couple of hours. Pipe the top if desired.

Chocolate layer

• Heat the cream and pour over the chocolate. Let it soften, then stir until smooth. Cool to room temperature.

Vanilla white chocolate layer

• Whisk together the cream, sugar and agar agar and simmer in a saucepan for 3-5 minutes
• Take off heat, whisk in the scraped vanilla bean and white chocolate. Leave to cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.

Strawberry jelly

• Place everything in a saucepan and simmer until the berries soften and become mushy, pressing the berries on and off. It should take 10-15 minutes. Strain & cool until the jelly begins to thicken but is still pourable.

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