Strawberry Cake
3 layer strawberry cake from scratch and an option for easy cake box recipe
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs
- 1 ½ C strawberry puree
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoon strawberry extract
- 2 to 3 drops Pink gel food coloring
- 3 C cake flour
- 1 ¾ C sugar
- 1 tablespoon plus ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ C canola oil
- ½ C unsalted sweet cream butter
- 3 9 inch round cake pans
- Cake leveler
- 1 12 inch cake board
- Angled icing spatula
Strawberry Frosting ingredients
- 1 piping bag with a large star tip
- Strawberry Frosting ingredients
- 2 C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 6 C powdered sugar
- 4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ C finely diced strawberries
- 5-7 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
Instructions
Strawberry Cake Recipe
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray the cake pans with pam baking spray, set aside
- In a separate bowl, combine eggs, strawberry puree, vanilla, strawberry extract, pink food coloring, whisk until combined
- Using a standing mixer, whisk together the cake flour, sugar, baking powder and salt until combined
- Slowly beat in the butter and canola oil until combined
- Once the mixture looks like coarse sand, gradually beat in the egg mixture until combined. The batter will be very thick and fluffy but so good!
- Evenly divide the cake batter
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pans 10 min. then turn out.
Frosting Directions
- Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, vanilla, powdered sugar, diced strawberries and heavy whipping cream until combined and creamy and stiff with peaks
- Directions to prepare the cake:
- Once cake rounds have cooled, remove from cake pans and place onto a cutting board
- Using the cake leveler, remove the domes of the cakes
- Place one cake round onto the cake board
- Scoop 1 C of the frosting onto the middle of the cake
- Using the angled spatula, smooth the frosting out
- Place the second cake layer onto the first layer
- Repeat steps with the frosting and remaining cake layer
- Scoop 1 C of frosting into the piping bag and set aside
- Once you have built your cake, scoop the remaining frosting onto the top of the cake and use the angled spatula to smooth it out
- Frost the entire cake until smooth
- Using the piping bag, pipe dollops of frosting around the edge of the top of the cake
- Place sliced strawberries along the sides of the dollops and in the middle of the cake
- Enjoy!
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