When you are already grilling outside in the summer, these fruit kabobs make a wonderful dessert. While you eat your steaks or hamburgers, these can be cooking. a great topping for vanilla ice cream.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 40 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 1 8-inch layer cake |
Ingredients
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 cup strawberry jam
- ½ cup buttermilk, at room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 ½ cups heavy cream
- 1 (12 ounce) bag dark chocolate chips
- ¼ cup sliced almonds, toasted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease two 8-inch round cake pans.
- Whisk flour, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and sea salt together in a bowl to distribute well.
- Stir jam and buttermilk together in another bowl.
- Cream sugar and butter together in a separate bowl until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Blend in the eggs, one at a time. Add the flour mixture in 2 parts, alternating with buttermilk and jam mixture in 2 parts. Divide batter between the prepared cake pans.
- Bake in the preheated oven until centers are slightly firm and a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Cool the cakes in their pans for 30 minutes; remove and let cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes more.
- Meanwhile, bring cream to a simmer over medium-low heat. Place chocolate chips in a bowl; pour hot cream on top. Let sit, without stirring, for 5 minutes. Stir in concentric circles until ganache is smooth. Let cool.
- Spread a thin layer of chocolate ganache on cooled cake layers; assemble and frost the top and sides. Sprinkle with toasted almonds.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 671 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 90 g |
| Cholesterol | 130 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Saturated Fat | 22 g |
| Sodium | 265 mg |
| Sugars | 53 g |
| Fat | 35 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |