Strawberry Cake

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This Homemade Strawberry Cake recipe is the perfect creamy dessert for summer! Light, refreshing, and sweet enough to satisfy any craving!

Strawberry Cake Recipe

You guys are just going to DIE when you try this Strawberry Cake. Ever since I went to this restaurant and had a version of a similar cake, I’ve been dreaming of making my own…but bigger and better! It’s been a few months since I’ve been there and I honestly forgot about the cake until I saw some amazing strawberries that I couldn’t pass up. Strawberries are in season and I can tell by how big, juicy and naturally sweet they are….perfect for a cake!

Main Ingredients

This is a homemade and easy strawberry cake recipe made with simple ingredients. Here’s everything you’ll need:

• Vanilla Cake – feel free to use my vanilla cake recipe or one of your favorites. I also have a vegan cake recipe!
• Strawberries – the fresher the better. And if you wanted to, you could sub out strawberries for any sort of berry that is in season and still have a delicious cake!
• Heavy Whipping Cream, Vanilla, and Powdered Sugar – to make homemade whipped cream! Here is my ultimate whipped cream guide.

Love cake? Me too! Try these other cake recipes out: Favorite Coconut Cake, Black Forest Cake Recipe, The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe, and Double Vanilla Sour Cream Cupcakes.

How to Make Strawberry Cake

This strawberry cake is fairly simple to make! Bake the cake then cool, whip up the strawberries and cream frosting then layer and frost. Refrigerate then voila! For the full recipe check out the recipe card down below.

1. I started by making this Vanilla Dream Cake recipe from my friend Jessica from The Novice Chef blog. Very simple ingredients needed for this cake that I had on hand and was it was in the oven pretty quick. Feel free to use my vanilla cake recipe that will make 2 rounds.
2. Once the cakes were baked thoroughly, I popped them out of the pans to cool completely. Hot cake + whipped cream = melty mess. FYI. SO!! Just wait it out.
3. Once they’re cool, slice them both down the middle to create 4 layers.

4. Ok, now comes the fun part! Whip a whole vat of heavy whipping cream with a little vanilla and some powdered sugar.
5. Put half of that cream aside, and mix the other half with these diced fresh strawberries. Like so.
6. Layer your cake up using the strawberries and cream as the filling for this cake.

7. Frost the whole thing using the plain whipped cream. Doesn’t this look super dreamy?! Mmm….. Then take a few extra berries and decorate the top of the strawberry cake.

8. Pop this into the fridge for a few hours for everything to solidify and ‘come together’. Then slice it up and enjoy!

Nothing hard about this cake at all. And you can see that I purposely didn’t smooth the sides. I love the look of an unperfected cake.

Leftovers

Any leftover strawberry cake can be kept in the fridge, covered for up to 5 days! I would finish it sooner rather than later though. Perfect to enjoy cold on a hot summer day 🙂

More Strawberry Recipes to Love!

• Summer Strawberry Jello Pie
• Strawberry Mint Limeade
• Nutella Deviled Strawberries
• Strawberry Shortcake
• Strawberry Cheesecake
• Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

I love love loved this strawberry cake. It was fresh, creamy, cold, sweet, light and refreshing 🙂 So amazing and overall pretty impressive looking for minimal work. Try it out this weekend! I’m pretty positive you’ll fall in love with this cake too!

Printable recipe below! Have a wonderful weekend, friends! xo

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Homemade Strawberry Cake Recipe

This homemade Strawberry Cake recipe is the perfect creamy dessert for summer! Light, refreshing, and sweet enough to satisfy any craving!

servings 12 servings

Prep Time 6 hrs

Cook Time 25 mins

Total Time 6 hrs 25 mins

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 recipe of this Vanilla Dream Cake recipe or any other vanilla cake recipe
• ▢ 2 1/2 cups heavy cream
• ▢ 1 tablespoon vanilla
• ▢ 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• ▢ 1 cup fresh diced strawberries + more for garnish

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

• Make vanilla dream cake according to recipe. Cool completely. Slice cakes in half lengthwise to create 4 layers.
• Whip heavy cream with vanilla and powdered sugar until stiff peaks form. Remove half of the cream and set aside. Stir diced strawberries into the remaining cream.
• Place one layer of cake onto a serving platter. Spread 1/3 of the strawberries and cream filling overtop. Add another layer of cake and continue layering until all 4 layers are in tact. If filling looks like it's being pushed out from the sides of the cake, simply scrape the edges to even everything out. Frost the entire cake with remaining plain whipped cream. Top with sliced strawberries as a garnish.
• Refrigerate 4 hours to overnight to set completely {so it will cut nicely}. Slice and serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 357kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 67mg | Sodium: 317mg | Potassium: 82mg | Sugar: 23g | Vitamin A: 730IU | Vitamin C: 7.3mg | Calcium: 128mg | Iron: 0.9mg

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

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