/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Alright /ck/ I need some tips and ideas. My sister's birthday is coming up and I wanna make a cake for her that she hasn't seen before. She bakes for fun, so here's my initial ideas:
>>Two layer cake
>>Strawberry cake mix
>>possibly white icing (for appearance/contrast), maybe chocolate (for flavor)
>>chocolate glaze on top

She'll probably think it's a chocolate cake because we've only ever seen chocolate exterior cakes with chocolate interior. Hopefully this makes it more interesting. Will it still taste okay?

Also I want to incorporate 'real' strawberries somehow, maybe for garnish or texture. I have a ton of frozen sliced strawberries and I was thinking of one of these:
>>Place on top of icing but underneath the chocolate glaze
>>chop up a bit more and mix into the batter
>>Just place on top of glaze for more color

I'm lazy and cheap so yeah, it'll be from a box mix with store bought icing. I mainly want to make it presentable (I never had cake mix from a box taste bad). I'll probably make a sculpture out of chocolate if I feel like burning some more time, something overused and 'impressive' like the Eiffel tower, maybe even use it to hold a candle.
Let me know if any of these ideas are obviously bad (like putting fruit in the batter) or stupid (like a chocolate Eiffel tower). I know I can do all of these ideas easily, I just wanna make sure I get some opinions before I screw it up.

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