Our family’s favorite dessert is fresh Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Buttercream because it screams, “Summer is here.”
We are a little early in publishing this recipe to use fresh homegrown Strawberries.
We want to give you time to print the recipe and hang it on your refrigerator to create excitement in your home!
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Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups cake flour
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 cup butter, chilled, cut into small cubes
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cups washed, hulled fresh strawberries, pureed to approx. 3/4 cup
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Then, prepare two 8-inch cake pans. Use soft butter or shortening to lightly coat the pans, and then dust them with flour.
Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl of a stand mixer.
Mix in butter until crumbly. Mix in eggs, one a time until blended.
In another bowl, mix milk, strawberry puree, and vanilla. Then, slowly add the milk mixture until blended and smooth.
Divide the cake batter into the two cake pans.
Bake 30 -35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean,
Cool cake pans on a wire rack,
Remember, cakes must be completely cool before frosting,
Frosting:
- 1 cup(2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature,
- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar(icing sugar),
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla,
- 1/2 cup fresh strawberries, washed, hulled, and pureed to approx. 3 tbsp.,
- Now beat butter until light(almost white) and fluffy.
- Slowly add powdered sugar and mix until blended.
- Finally, the last step is to add vanilla, mix, and strawberry puree until well blended.
- Children of all ages lick the beaters,
Frost Cake:
Serve as is or top with some fresh sliced strawberries
Enjoy
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Another wonderful summer dessert recipe is Peaches and Cream Cheesecake Pie. For the best Pie Crust recipe, check out this Flaky Butter Pie Crust.
