Strawberry Butter Cake
~ Mary ~
Oh Boy this cake delivered! It truly lives up to it’s looks! The perfect celebration cake to ring in summer and Stephanie’s birthday.
Another winner from Sky High Cakes with a couple of my own additions. It’s a mighty one too – weighing in at 10 pounds 5 ounces! It’s got a strawberry mousse filling, a cream cheese frosting and a strawberry coulis with Gran Marnier glaze on each layer. I don’t think I’ll add the glaze next time – it kind of got lost.
I like to get all my pieces and parts made beforehand and assemble the cake the day of. It makes life and entertaining much easier. There are a couple items you can do well in advance and freeze:
The Cake – it’s dense and moist and no harm will come to it as long as you double wrap! I wrap in saran and put it in a ziploc. A cold cake is much easier to assemble.
The Pureed Strawberries (need about 4 Cups) No recipe – just hull about 2 qts of strawberries and puree in blender.
The Frosting– Basic Cream Cheese frosting – just bring it to room temp to frost the cake.
You can make the Strawberry Mousse the day before.
Strawberry Butter Cake
Adapted from Sky High Cakes:
Preheat the oven to 350. Butter and flour three 8″ round cake pans.
In mixing bowl combine:
4 1/4 Cups Flour
3 Cups Sugar
1 Tbsp & 2 tsp Baking Powder
3/4 tsp Salt
Mix on low speed for 30 seconds then add:
3 Sticks Softened Butter
1 1/4 Cups Strawberry Puree
Mix to blend then raise the speed to medium and beat to light and fluffy – about 3 minutes.
In another bowl whisk together:
10 Egg Whites
2/3 Cup Milk
In three separate addtions add to cake batter. Blend after each addition until incorporated and wipe down sides of bowl.
Pour into prepared pans – about 1# 9oz per pan.
Bake for about 30 minutes.
Strawberry Mousse
With an electric mixer and cold bowl beat:
1 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream
1/4 Cup Sugar
Set aside in fridge.
In a non-reactive bowl heat to warm:
1/2 Cup Strawberry Puree
Dissolve in puree:
1 1/2 pkgs Unflavored Geletin
Set aside to cool.
In another bowl mix together:
1 Cup Plain Yogurt
1/2 Cup Sugar
1 1/2 Cups more Strawberry Puree
When geletined puree is cool mix in too then fold in the heavy whipping cream. I stored this in a ziploc bag overnight and it got nice and firm which is good for this dense cake – there was no slipping around of the layers when assembling.
Cream Cheese Frosting
With an electric mixer beat together equal parts:
Cream Cheese and Butter
Add desired amounts of:
Sugar and Vanilla
Beat until light and fluffy.
For this cake I used about 4 Cups of frosting. I usually make extra because it freezes well and I hate not having enough frosting mid-way through assembling a cake.
This cake is georgeous!!!
You always have loved cakes. On this one, you’ve outdone yourself. I wish I could have a piece right now!
Oh my! This looks and sounds amazing!
What an amazing cake!!!!! I wish I could have a slice. =) Thanks for sharing.
I am not a sweet eater at ALL. I don’t crave it and rarely, if ever eat sweets. However, I think your cake is not only visually beautiful but you cannot go wrong with…*hello* butter AND strawberries!
Wow. Looks super awesome. Nice decorating! Tall cakes look so impressive : )
Thanks for sharing.
this is SO gorgeous, do you mind if i use this pic for the new food blog i started, with a link back to you?
Sorry for opening up an old post but this looks (and smells) great!
I’m in the process of making this right now! I had to do everything by hand, no mixer, no blender (used a potato masher on the strawberries.) But there was a huge strawberry sale at my neighborhood grocery store, so i couldn’t resist.
I’d be happy if it comes out half as nice looking as yours, becasue yours is really quite lovely.
-Jasmine
Well I hope it went well! Do come back here and let me know what you thought. ~Mary
I work at a restaurant and one of our guests brought this cake for her sister’s birthday. All of the servers were eyeing this cake it looked soooo good. After we sung happy birthday I couldn’t help but ask for a piece. This is the best cake I have ever eaten. Thanks for sharing!
How sweet of you to say! Now you’ll have to get busy and make one for yourself 😉
I’m in the process of making this cake right now :)….I’ve baked the cakes and when I get back from work i’ll be doing the frosting, mousse and assembling!!!
But I had a question. Is it 1 1/2 ounces of gelatin or 1 1/2 packages? Because I bought a small box yesterday with four packages in it, but the box says one ounce so I’m kinda confused
Please let me know soon if you get this today. I would really love for this cake to come out as beautiful as yours 🙂
Packages!
So sorry! I hope I got to you in time. You’re going to love this cake, I need to make it again, it’s been too long. Enjoy Megan!
You caught me in time 🙂
’bout to run to the store for some more strawberries….seems that they’ve disappeared while i was away!! lol
I’ll let you know how everyone likes it!