Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (18 ounce) box chocolate cake mix
• 1 (3 1/2 ounce) box chocolate pudding
• 4 eggs
• 3/4 cup milk
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 (10 ounce) jar strawberry jam (i use homemade)
• 1 1/2 lbs strawberries
• 3 tablespoons sugar (more or less to taste)
• 2 1/2 pints heavy cream
• 3 -5 marshmallows (heated or melted in microwave for 20 seconds) (optional)
• vanilla
• confectioners' sugar

Recipe

• 1 mix and bake cake ingredients according to box.
• 2 cool cakes completely.
• 3 while the cakes are baking and/or cooling, slice strawberries, coat with sugar and let sit in fridge until ready to put together. leave some for garnish.
• 4 once cakes are cool, start mixing the whipped cream.
• 5 in a large bowl beat the cream until it thickens.
• 6 add the vanilla, confectioners sugar, and marshmallows (to stabilize).
• 7 assemble cake.
• 8 place first layer on a cake plate with a small amount of jam to hold it.
• 9 spread jar of jam on the top of the first layer.
• 10 spread 1/4 of cream on top of jam making a dam and indent in the middle for sugar strawberries.
• 11 place 3/4 of the strawberries in indent.
• 12 spread 1/4 of the cream on top of the strawberries and cover with top layer of cake.
• 13 ice cake with remainder of the whipped cream making an indent again in the middle for the rest of the sugar strawberries.
• 14 garnish with large strawberries previously set aside.