Fabulous Cakes Strawberry Cake

By carvalhohm

This Strawberry cake recipe is a sure hit with the kids. It is moist and a strawberry flavor you sure can't miss.

This cake is lovely as a part of a three layers of Neopalitan cake (other layers are vanilla and chocolate). Or make princess cupcakes with this pink battered strawberry cake.

You can also cut the strawbery cake in half and sandwich the whipped cream and strawberry slices in the middle. Put more cream on top and garnish with strawberry halves.

Another way to serve this stawberry cake recipe is to glaze the strawberry cake with chocolate ganache and decorate with strawberries dipped in chocolate. Yum!

Ingredients

• 2 3/4 cups (344 g) cake flour
• 2 1/2 tsp. (12.5 g) baking powder
• 1 cup (227 g) butter, softened
• 2 cups (400 g) white sugar
• 1 (3 oz) (84 g) package strawberry flavoured gelatin
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup (240 ml) whole milk
• 1 tbsp. (15 g) vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup (120 ml) strawberry puree

Details

Adapted from make-fabulous-cakes.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350°; and line 2 x 9" round cake pans with parchment or wax circles.

Sift cake flour and baking powder together in bowl.

In another bowl, cream butter, sugar and powdered gelatin until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing it in after addition of each.

Stir flour mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.

Add vanilla extract and strawberry puree.

Pour batter in prepared cake pans and bake for approx. 30 minutes. Cake is ready when an inserted wooden skewer or cake tester comes out clean or when cake springs back when lightly pressed with a finger.

Let cake cool in pans for about 10 minutes. Loosen sides with knife or metal spatula and invert to metal rack. Invert again to another rack to prevent cake from splitting.