Strawberry Layer Cake

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Strawberry Layer Cake is bursting with strawberry flavor. Three layers of strawberry-flavored barroom are coated with a buttercream flavored with caller strawberry puree. An casual to marque outpouring and summertime dessert and specified a gorgeous color.

Slice of Strawberry Layer Cake connected a sheet with caller strawberries.

Start With A Box Of Cake Mix

This is simply a doctored barroom premix recipe, but it wholly doesn’t sensation similar it. The strawberry spirit successful the barroom layers comes from some caller strawberries and a container of strawberry gelatin. It’s the gelatin that gives the barroom its rich, pinkish color.

Buttercream Frosting

Fresh Strawberry puree gives the buttercream tons of strawberry flavor. To marque the strawberry puree you’ll archetypal process the strawberries successful a blender or nutrient processor and past simmer implicit medium-low vigor successful a tiny saucepan until thickened. Be definite to disturbance often truthful it doesn’t burn. NOTE: If you don’t thicken up the strawberries, the frosting volition beryllium excessively thin.

Whole strawberry barroom decorated with caller strawberries connected a plate.

Equipment Needed

Electric Hand-held or Stand Mixer– I emotion this KitchenAid 5-Speed Hand Mixer.
Food Processor oregon Blender– to purée the strawberries.
3 9-inch barroom pans– these Wilton pans are my favorite.
Offset Spatula– for spreading the frosting. An icing spatula makes frosting the barroom truthful overmuch easier.

Finishing Touches

You’ll privation immoderate other caller strawberries to decorate the barroom with. Some mint leaves besides marque a large garnish.

Strawberry Layer Cake with a portion removed.

Strawberry Layer Cake Recipe Tips

Cake should beryllium wholly chill earlier frosting.

It’s champion to usage caller strawberries for this recipe, but you tin usage frozen strawberries.

Use immoderate regular-size container of barroom mix. I similar Duncan Hinz oregon Betty Crocker.

Storage

Can beryllium stored for up to 5 days successful the refrigerator. Eat acold oregon fto travel to country somesthesia for 30 minutes.

Slice of Strawberry Layer Cake connected a plate.

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Strawberry Layer Cake

Strawberry Layer Cake is bursting with strawberry flavor. Three layers of strawberry-flavored barroom are coated with a buttercream flavored with caller strawberry puree.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword layer cake, Spring

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 22 minutes

Servings

Calories 456kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

Cake

1 box white barroom mix
1 (3-ounce) package strawberry gelatin
4 large eggs
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup finely chopped caller strawberries
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup all-purpose flour

Frosting

2 cups finely chopped caller strawberries
1 1/2 cups salted butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 cups powdered sugar
1-2 tablespoons milk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 3 9-inch barroom pans with baking spray with flour.
Beat each barroom batter ingredients with an electrical mixer connected debased velocity until combined. Beat astatine mean velocity for 2 minutes.
Divide batter evenly betwixt the 3 barroom pans.
Bake for 22 to 23 minutes oregon until barroom feels steadfast erstwhile you mildly property connected top.
Let chill successful pans for 10 minutes and past region from pans to chill competely. Do not frost the barroom until wholly cool.
Process strawberries successful a nutrient processor oregon blender until smooth. Transfer to a tiny saucepan and navigator implicit medium-low heat, stirring often until reduced by astir half. Let chill completely.
Using an electrical mixer, bushed food until smooth. Add vanilla extract and strawberry puree. Add powdered sweetener successful thirds, beating until mixed successful earlier adding more.
Add capable beverage to bladed it to spreading consistency.
Spread frosting connected bottommost furniture of cake, apical with 2nd furniture and screen apical with frosting. Place the 3rd furniture connected and dispersed frosting connected apical and sides.