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Strawberry Crunch Cake – Gretchen’s Vegan Bakery


I’m bringing again the nostalgia with this strawberry shortcake crunch cake

Paying homage to my favourite ice cream from days passed by!
The Strawberry Shortcake was the explanation I chased the ice cream man down the road.

Strawberry Crunch Cake

4 layers of fluffy cake, recent strawberry compote and white chocolate mousse

Strawberry Crunch Cake

Loaded up with that well-known strawberry crunch coating all of us love a lot!

This cake goes to knock your socks of from the primary chunk to the final!
The type of cake is simply so decadent and spectacular with layers upon layers of pure deliciousness!

Strawberry Crunch Cake

 

When you’ve gathered your base recipes it actually takes underneath an hour to construct the ultimate cake!

Simply comply with alongside step-by-step with the video tutorial and the written directions are additionally beneath within the recipe field!

Vegan Crunch Cakes

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Notes For Success:

Take this cake venture in steps spanning a few days to make your life simpler!
Cake layers will be made prematurely and wrapped hermetic & saved within the fridge or freezer till able to assemble the cake.
Strawberry compote will be made as much as 1 week prematurely and saved within the fridge.

White chocolate mousse and whipped cream are made on the time of meeting.

Make your life simpler through the use of buttercream or whipped cream rather than the white chocolate mousse!

Earlier than you start, you’ll discover I’m utilizing two particular instruments for this cake: chrome steel cake ring and the acetate cake strips.

Constructing truffles with tender fillings like this should be molded and set and the cake ring is important.
Alternatively you need to use a springform pan with the underside eliminated for a less expensive possibility

The recipe beneath suggests utilizing my White Cake Field Cake Hack for a a lot simpler preparation
However if you happen to desire to make scratch recipes for each truffles I’ve White Cake & Strawberry Cake
You’ll simply should make half recipes of every one for two layers of white and two layers of strawberry

You will want 2 cups of whipped cream to fold into the mousse and roughly 3-4 extra cups to ice the cake.

SILK model Heavy Whipping Cream (2 pints) works GREAT for this! *not sponsored
In any other case try every thing you must find out about all of the vegan whipped cream choices

CLICK HERE FOR EVERYTHING ABOUT VEGAN WHIPPED CREAM!

 

Yield: 1- 7″ cake serves 8 ppl

Strawberry Shortcake Crunch Cake

Strawberry Crunch Cake

Prep Time
3 hours

Cook dinner Time
22 minutes

Complete Time
3 hours 22 minutes

Components

  • 1 WHITE CAKE BOX MIX Duncan Hines (15.25oz field) *see notes
  • Vegetable Oil 1/3 cup (80ml)
  • Water 1 cup (237ml)
  • All Function Flour 1 cup (125g)
  • Baking Powder ½ teaspoon
  • Plant Milk 2/3 cup (160ml)
  • Dry Mix Egg Replacer 2 Tablespoons
  • Applesauce 2 Tablespoons
  • Sugar ½ cup (100g)

For the Strawberry Cake:

  • Half of the batter from the above white cake combine or my white cake recipe
  • Dehydrated strawberries floor to a powder ½ (18g)

For the White Chocolate Mousse: *see notes

For the Strawberry Compote Filling:

  • Recent or Frozen strawberries 3 cups
  • Cranberries recent or frozen 1 cup
  • Sugar *non-obligatory ½ cup
  • **If utilizing recent berries you could want about ¼ cup of water to assist them prepare dinner down

For the Garnish/Decor/Crunch

  • 15 Golden Sandwich Cookies with the fillings
  • Dehydrated Strawberries ½ cup (18g)

Directions

  1. First put together the 4- 7″ cake pans with skilled bakery pan grease and parchment paper liners.
  2. Preheat the oven to 350°F
  3. Put together the cake batter (if you happen to desire to make scratch white cake & strawberry cake recipes comply with the directions on these recipe pages and meet me again while you’re performed!)
  4. For the field cake hack: In a big mixing bowl empty the contents of 1 Duncan Hines White Cake field.
  5. Add the sugar, flour, baking powder and egg replacer.
  6. Sift collectively or utilizing a hand whisk to evenly distribute the contents.
  7. Add the oil, plant milk, water and applesauce and whisk easy, utilizing about 50 vigorous strokes
  8. Divide the batter in half and reserve one half for the strawberry batter then divide the remaining white batter into 2-7″ ready pans
  9. For the strawberry batter grind the dehydrated strawberries in a meals processor or spice grinder to a high quality powder, add to the white batter and whisk nicely till there are not any streaks.
  10. Divide the batter between the remaining 2-7″ cake pans then bake all of the cake layers collectively within the preheated 350°F oven for roughly 22 minutes or when they’re springy to the contact while you gently press the facilities, or with the toothpick take a look at, insert a toothpick and if it comes out clear it’s performed!
  11. Cool the truffles within the pans till you possibly can safely contact then with out burning your self then flip them out onto a cooling rack to chill utterly.
  12. Put together the strawberry compote: in a medium heavy backside sauce pot mix the chopped strawberries and cranberries along with the sugar and water *if wanted.
  13. Cook dinner over medium warmth till the cranberries begin to pop and the berries are breaking down. Stir usually.
  14. Flip the warmth to low and let it simmer and proceed to prepare dinner down, the sauce will naturally thicken particularly because it cools to chilly.
  15. You’ll be able to depart it chunky or mix to a puree it’s your possibility *I prefer it chunky.
  16. Put together the garnish for the cake by grinding the golden sandwich cookies in a meals processor to medium crumbs, add the dehydrated strawberries and pulse till it’s all the dimensions you need for garnish.
  17. If you end up able to construct the cake put together your vegan whipping cream- if you’re utilizing SILK Model as I present within the video merely whip it to tender peaks presently.
  18. Reserve 2 cups for the mousse and depart the remaining within the fridge for the icing of the cake later.
  19. Put together the white chocolate mousse by melting the vegan white chocolate
  20. Mix the nice and cozy plant milk with the agar powder after which carry to a rolling boil to activate the agar.
  21. Add this to the melted white chocolate and whisk as quick as doable to stop setting!
  22. Subsequent shortly fold within the whipped cream and whisk easy.
  23. The mousse will set very quick as a result of agar, so you should definitely have your different substances able to go since you’ll have to construct the cake pretty shortly to ensure the mousse does not set.
  24. Comply with the video tutorial for the right way to construct & ice the cake!

Notes

Cake should be stored refrigerated always.

You’ll be able to freeze the UN-iced cake nicely wrapped for as much as 1 month, ice with whipped cream after thawing within the fridge in a single day.

 

 

 



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