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Ingredients

250g butter

200g dark chocolate

500g plain flour

450g caster sugar

25g 听cocoa powder (keep aside extra pinch for dusting cake)

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

2 large eggs

200g natural yogurt

200g Raspberries

25ml Red Food Colouring (material)

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For the Icing

200g full-fat soft cheese, at room temperature

200g butter, softened

325g icing sugar

2 tsp vanilla extract听

Strawberries or Raspberries to decorate

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Method

Heat the oven to 160 degrees C

In a bowl add sieved flour, sugar, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda. Combine.

To a blender add raspberries, eggs and yoghurt and blend until it is smooth.

Melt the butter and chocolate slowly in a small pot.

Add the food colouring.

Combine everything together and fold gently until you have a red velvet consistency.

Put the mixture into a 10鈥� cake tin that has been greased. Bake in oven for 40 minutes.

Allow cake to cool

While the cake is baking make the icing by whisking cream cheese and butter together. Then add sieved icing sugar and vanilla essence.

Slice the cake in three discs and spread a layer of icing in between each layer. Spread icing on top and sides of cake.

Dust with cocoa and decorate with strawberries or raspberries and enjoy.

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Brian's tip

Cut just one slice and share and eat from the same plate on Valentine鈥檚 Day听