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Home made Strawberry Sheet Cake is a moist, tender cake topped with strawberry cream cheese frosting. Strawberry jam infuses this cake with candy strawberry taste with no synthetic flavors!

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Home made Strawberry Sheet Cake

I’ve made numerous strawberry desserts through the years…strawberry desserts, strawberry cupcakes, cobblers, breads, muffins…and I’ll hyperlink to all these yummy recipes on the backside of this submit. BUT I’ve by no means shared my recipe for a Traditional From-Scratch Strawberry Cake! My mother used a recipe that began with a field combine and added in strawberry jell-o…and I’ll let you know, that cake was comfortable and scrumptious, with the magic that solely a boxed cake can carry.

BUT I wished to actually crack the code on strawberry cake with out including synthetic flavors!

Why Use Strawberry Jam In This Recipe As a substitute of Contemporary Strawberries?

I attempted numerous variations of this recipe earlier than I felt assured that I had nailed it. Right here’s what I discovered:

• I attempted utilizing diced, contemporary strawberries, however didn’t like the best way the contemporary berries made the cake moist surrounding the berries. Plus, strawberries are a seasonal fruit they usually aren’t all the time as candy as they have to be for baking.
• Frozen strawberries carried out very similar to contemporary, however made the cake even wetter within the pockets the place the berries had been.
• I attempted mixing up the strawberries and utilizing the puree, however discovered that it didn’t add sufficient strawberry taste.
• I made a do-it-yourself strawberry puree by boiling and decreasing strawberries with sugar. Including this to the cake made it too dense.

OUTCOME: So I attempted seedless strawberry jam and located the precise proper taste and sweetness, plus it didn’t make the cake too dense.

Elements Wanted For My Strawberry Sheet Cake

This cake recipe is fairly easy. Right here’s what you’ll want:

• Granulated Sugar
• Butter and Vegetable Oil: I discover the mix of those two fat are what offers this the moist texture, but in addition good taste. You can make this cake with all oil for a lighter textured cake, OR all butter for a extra dense, however wealthy cake.
• Taste: Vanilla extract and Seedless Strawberry Jam
• Dry Elements: Baking powder, Baking Soda, Salt, All Objective Flour
• Moist Elements: Buttermilk, Giant Eggs
• Optionally available – pink meals coloring if you happen to actually wish to amp up the pink coloration of your cake!

If You Don’t Have Buttermilk…

Make your individual! I’ve an ideal Home made Buttermilk Recipe that you must undoubtedly try. Only a scant cup of milk and 1 tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice blended collectively creates a do-it-yourself model of buttermilk.

Do You Have To Refrigerate This Strawberry Sheet Cake?

In case you use the cream cheese frosting recipe supplied, sure, you do have to refrigerate this cake. In case you don’t use a cream cheese frosting you’ll be able to retailer the cake at room temperature as a substitute!

What If You Don’t Like Cream Cheese Frosting?

There are many different frostings you possibly can use on this cake as a substitute! You can even mud it with powdered sugar for extra of an quaint vibe. Listed below are some concepts for different frostings that might be scrumptious on this cake:

Can You Make This Sheet Cake Right into a Layer Cake?

1. Put together the recipe as written. Coat 2, 9- inch spherical cake pans OR 3, 8- inch spherical cake pans with nonstick spray. Lower out parchment rounds to suit into the bottoms of the pans. Spray the pans once more to coat the highest of the parchment paper.
2. Divide the batter evenly among the many ready pans and bake for half-hour, or till the facilities are set and a toothpick inserted comes out clear.
3. Enable the desserts to chill within the pans for 10 minutes after which flip the desserts out onto a wire rack to chill fully.
4. If utilizing the frosting recipe supplied, double the recipe so you’ve got sufficient for a layer cake.

Garnishing A Strawberry Cake:

The fantastic thing about a sheet cake is that it’s straightforward! No fussy layers or adorning to fret about. BUT if you wish to gown up your layer cake, listed here are a couple of concepts:

Contemporary Strawberries! Slice them or use them complete, strawberries on a strawberry cake is a no brainer. In case you use sliced, place them on proper earlier than serving, so that they don’t sweat onto the frosting which appears to be like a little bit messy.

Frosting swirls. In case you like to pipe frosting roses, or piped decorations go for it! This cream cheese frosting isn’t tremendous stiff, so add in some extra powdered sugar to make it a bit thicker so your roses will maintain form.

Sprinkles. Sprinkles are all the time an ideal ornament for desserts!

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