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How to Make Strawberries and Cream Cake - A Step-by-Step Guide

At the peak of strawberry season, there is no better way to celebrate these sweet, juicy berries than by incorporating them into a dessert. And what better dessert to showcase their flavor than a strawberries and cream cake? This delightful recipe is the perfect combination of light and fluffy cake layers, luscious whipped cream, and fresh, ripe strawberries.

The cake itself is a simple and tender vanilla sponge, which serves as the perfect canvas for the star of the show - the strawb...

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Ingredients

  • 2 ¾ cups cake flour
  • 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 1 (3 ounce) package strawberry flavored Jell-O®
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup strawberries, pureed
  • 1 ½ cups heavy cream
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups fresh strawberries, sliced
  • ½ cup margarine, softened
  • 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  • 4 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups quartered strawberries

Information

  • Prep Time: 1 hr
  • Cook Time: 25 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins
  • Servings: 12
  • Yield: 1 3-layer 9-inch cake

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 9-inch round cake pans.
  • In a large bowl, beat sugar, gelatin, and butter until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition. Mix flour and baking powder, and beat alternately with the milk into the sugar mixture. Fold in 1 teaspoon vanilla and pureed strawberries. Divide equally into the three 9-inch round cake pans.
  • Bake 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in the pans, then remove from pans and cool completely.
  • To make the filling: Beat whipping cream, 2 tablespoons sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla on high until stiff. Fill each layer with 1/3 of the whipped cream and 3/4 cup sliced strawberries.
  • To make the frosting: Beat margarine, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and 2 teaspoons vanilla until creamy. Spread over the sides of the cake, and pipe an edge of frosting around the top of the cake.
  • Spread remaining whipped cream on cake top. Top with quartered strawberries.

    • Nutrition

    867 cal.

    • Total Fat: 43g
    • Saturated Fat: 23g
    • Cholesterol: 166mg
    • Sodium: 427mg
    • Total Carbohydrate: 115g
    • Dietary Fiber: 2g
    • Total Sugars: 86g
    • Protein: 9g
    • Vitamin C: 27mg
    • Calcium: 143mg
    • Iron: 3mg
    • Potassium: 213mg

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