The exclusively Strawberry Cake recipe yous’ll e'er ask! A fluffy vanilla cake is loaded alongside fresh sweet strawberries in addition to a rich cream cheese whipped cream. The perfect summer recipe for whatsoever celebration or go together.
Homemade Strawberry Cake
This was the cake I wanted for Mother’s Day…and then I made it for myself five days early on. I’k ever looking for a reason to brand cake, tin can y'all enjoin? This fresh strawberry cake is perfect for any vacation, only it’s as well perfect merely to celebrate whatsoever summertime 24-hour interval.
Do you know anyone who doesn’t dearest the fresh strawberries too cream combination? So when yous combine them together along with roughly tangy cream cheese and add together it to the acme of a sweetness vanilla cake, you know it’second got to be adept, as well as oh how it is!
I had to hurry and accept giant slices to my neighbors or I would have simply pigeon into the whole cake too never known when to finish. It is creamy, dreamy, fluffy heavenly cake as well as I most definitely loved it! Happy Mothers mean solar day to me!
But actually, Happy Mothers Day to all you lot Moms out there!
Fresh Strawberry Cake Ingredients
- Cake flour
- Baking pulverization
- Salt
- Unsalted butter
- Granulated saccharide
- Whole eggs as well as egg yolks
- Milk
- Vanilla
Whipped Strawberry Frosting Ingredients
- Heavy cream
- Powdered saccharide
- Cream cheese
- Vanilla
- Fresh strawberries
How to Make Strawberry Cake
- Preheat oven too fix cake pans.
- Sift cake flour too whisk dry out ingredients.
- In an electrical mixer cream butter as well as saccharide
- Mix inwards eggs in addition to yolks separately then blend in vanilla.
- Blend in flour mixture alternating with additions of milk.
- Divide amongst cake pans together with bake until prepare.
- Let cool so fresh with strawberry cream cheese whipped cream.
Can I Use All-Purpose Flour Instead of Cake Flour?
Cake flour really is best for this strawberry cake recipe amongst fresh strawberries. It makes the vanilla cake lighter in addition to creates the best texture.
Can I Use Frozen Strawberries Instead of Fresh?
For the best flavor, fresh strawberries are best. I don’t mean defrosted frozen strawberries would function here.
Tips for the Best Strawberry Cake
- Wait until the vanilla cake layers take cooled completely before adding the frosting.
- Feel gratis to add together a few drops of ruby food coloring to the frosting to arrive a lovely pinkish color.
- If y'all entirely have salted butter on manus, scale dorsum on the sum of salt you lot add together into the cake batter.
More Delicious Strawberry Desserts to Try:
- Strawberry Cupcakes
- Strawberry Shortcake Trifles
- Fresh Strawberry Syrup
- Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Bars
- Strawberry Sugar Cookies
- Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes
- Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
Fresh Strawberry Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 3 cups (370g) cake flour
- ane Tbsp baking pulverisation
- one/two tsp salt
- i cup (8 oz) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 iii/four loving cup (390g) granulated saccharide
- iii big eggs
- two large egg yolks
- one 1/4 cups milk (anything but skim)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Strawberry Cream Cheese Whipped Cream
- iii cups heavy cream
- 1 loving cup (125g) powdered sugar, divided
- 8 oz cream cheese , left at room temperature until partially softened (most twenty - thirty minutes)
- one/2 tsp vanilla extract
- i one/ii lbs strawberries , hulled as well as sliced into pieces slightly under i/2-inch
- Sliced strawberries for decorating (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter iii 9-inch round cake pans then line of work bottom with a circular of parchment, butter parchment too lightly dust pan with flour, shake out excess. Set pans aside.
- Make the cake: Sift cake flour into a medium mixing bowl. Add baking powder and salt as well as whisk twenty seconds, gear up aside.
- In the bowl of an electric stand up mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (if y'all don't accept a paddle that constantly scrapes bowl while mixing and then stop mixer occasionally throughout entire mixing procedure together with scrape downwards sides too bottom of bowl to ensure fifty-fifty mixing), whip together butter together with saccharide until pale as well as fluffy.
- Mix inwards eggs together with egg yolks i a time adding inwards vanilla amongst concluding egg yolk. Add i/three of the flour mixture at a fourth dimension (to the butter/egg mixture) alternating amongst 1/ii of the milk too mixing on depression speed simply until combined afterwards each add-on. Scrape downward sides in addition to bottom of bowl and gently crease batter several times.
- Divide batter amongst prepared baking pans. Bake inward preheated oven 25 - 30 minutes until toothpick inserted into centre of cake comes out make clean.
- Cool in pan most 5 minutes, work knife about edges of cake to ensure they are loosened so invert onto wire racks to cool completely (I recommend transferring them to gallon size resealable bags subsequently near 25 minutes of cooling and so they don't dry out and allow them finish cooling inward the handbag).
- Once cool frost with Strawberry Cream Cheese Whipped Cream. Store cake in an airtight container inwards fridge.
- For the topping: In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whip heavy cream until soft peaks class (occasionally scrape downward sides and bottom of bowl to ensure even mixing).
- Add one/three cup powdered saccharide too whip until strong peaks class (make certain they are potent or your topping will live runny, it should go to the signal where it doesn't have a moisture sheen). Scrape cream out into a class bowl.
- Add cream cheese to bowl of stand up mixer, check alongside paddle attachment together with whip cream cheese until smoothen together with fluffy.
- Mix inwards remaining two/three loving cup powdered carbohydrate as well as vanilla (I've made this cake twice as well as the moment fourth dimension I added a few drops of liquid ruddy food colour at this signal for a improve pink, that pictured was without).
- Add strawberries together with mix until uniform inwards color. Remove bowl from stand mixer, add together whipped cream and fold into mixture. Frost over cooled cake.
Notes
- Feel gratis to add a few drops of red food colour to the frosting to arrive a lovely pink color.
- If you lot exclusively have salted butter on manus, scale dorsum on the amount of salt you add together into the cake batter.
Amount Per Serving
Calories 729
Calories from Fat 414
% Daily Value*