This mild and fruity Strawberry Shortcake is a scrumptious twist on a basic, which mixes layers of moist pound cake, sweetened whipped cream, and recent strawberries!
Maintain this spectacular, scrumptious cake in thoughts on your spring and summer season gatherings!
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How you can Make Strawberry Shortcake Cake
In contrast to conventional Strawberry Shortcake, in the present day’s recipe is made with pound cake. Three extremely moist layers of buttermilk pound cake are crammed with recent strawberries and selfmade whipped cream.
Yow will discover the total, printable cake recipe additional down on this put up. Here’s a fast rundown of our steps!
For the Cake
- First, preheat the oven to 350 levels F. Grease and flour three 8 inch spherical pans. We additionally prefer to line the bottoms with parchment paper.
- In a separate bowl whisk the cake flour, baking powder, and salt to mix, put aside for later.
- Utilizing an electrical mixer (paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer), cream the butter on medium pace till clean. Subsequent, regularly add the sugar and beat till mild and fluffy for 3 to five minutes.
- Add the eggs one after the other, mixing after every till the yolk is included.
- Add the vanilla extract to the 1 cup of buttermilk.
- With the mixer on low pace, add the flour combination alternately with the buttermilk to the butter/sugar/egg combination within the mixing bowl. Start and finish with the dry components. I do three additions of dry, alternating with two additions of moist.
- Divide the cake batter between the three ready pans.
- Bake at 350℉ for 20-25 minutes or till an inserted toothpick comes out clear or with only a few moist crumbs hooked up (or the facilities of the layers spring again when calmly touched). Bake occasions might fluctuate!
- Enable the pound cake layers to chill within the pans on a wire rack for ten minutes earlier than turning out.
For the Sliced Strawberries
To arrange the sliced strawberries for the cake, we sprinkled sugar of the recent strawberries and stirred to mix. The sugar coated strawberry slices will launch extra juices as they sit.
For the Sweetened Whipped Cream
One other key participant on this strawberry shortcake cake is sweetened whipped cream!
This can be a easy mixture of whipped cream, vanilla extract, and confectioners’ sugar.
Whip the combination to mushy peaks. We used a handheld mixer but when utilizing a stand mixer, use the whisk attachment. The whipped cream is mild and fluffy with only a trace of sweetness.
*Chill the bowl and beaters within the freezer prematurely for greatest outcomes!
Assembling the Strawberry Shortcake
As soon as the cake layers have cooled, it’s time to assemble the cake!
Place the primary pound cake layer on the cake base or pedestal. Poke small holes on high of the cake layer utilizing a fork or picket skewer.
Subsequent, unfold the layer with strawberries.
High with whipped cream.
Repeat the steps for the following cake layer.
High with the third pound cake layer.
High with recent strawberries (both entire or sliced).
Right here it’s! Such a fairly, easy, and scrumptious cake!
You’ll be able to actually see the strawberry juice from the macerated strawberry filling on this slice!
Sure, due to the strawberries and whipped cream, this cake ought to be refrigerated. Nonetheless, for greatest style and texture, permit the cake to take a seat out an hour earlier than serving. This permits the cake to heat and soften.
We did not stabilize our whipped cream. The day after assembling the cake, the cake appeared the identical. Nonetheless, in case you are making ready the cake even additional prematurely, you might use a stabilizer (like Whip It, and many others.). Or, you might even use our whipped cream cheese frosting recipe.
Conventional Strawberry Shortcake consists of whipped cream, macerated strawberries, and sweetened biscuits that are crisp and flaky. Strawberry shortcake muffins as we made in the present day include softer cake layers and are constructed as a basic layer cake.
Sliced, recent strawberries which can be mixed with sugar are known as macerated strawberries. In contrast to plain, sliced strawberries, strawberries mixed with sugar create a splendidly juicy strawberry topping. The sugar releases the juices within the berries.
Sure, you may make the pound cake layers nicely prematurely. These cake layers will freeze superbly. Merely wrap every cake layer individually in plastic wrap and foil, and freeze for up the three months.
To thaw, transfer to kitchen counter, nonetheless wrapped. Condensation will kind on the foil (slightly than the cake).
Extra Strawberry Desserts
We love strawberry muffins and have made many through the years! We’re linking a couple of of our favorites under. Make sure that to checkout our full assortment of fabulous strawberry muffins, frostings, and fillings!
Strawberry Cake from Cake Combine
Do-it-yourself Strawberry Cake
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- 1 ½ cups (339g) unsalted butter, softened (That is the equal of three sticks of butter)
- 3 cups (600g) sugar
- 5 giant eggs, room temperature (place in a bowl of heat water for five minutes to hurry up the method).
- 3 cups (342 g) cake flour (Not self rising. We use Swan’s Down, bleached)
- ½ teaspoon (2)g baking powder
- ½ teaspoon (3g) salt
- 1 cup (235 g) buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons (8g) vanilla extract
Sliced Strawberries
- 4 cups (578g) sliced, recent strawberries
- 3 tablespoons (37g) sugar
Sweetened Whipped Cream
- 2 cups (480g) whipped cream or heavy cream
- ½ cup (58g) confectioners’ sugar
- 2 teaspoons (8g) vanilla extract
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Grease and flour three 8 inch spherical pans. We additionally prefer to line the bottoms with parchment paper.
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Preheat the oven to 350℉
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In a separate bowl whisk the cake flour, baking powder, and salt to mix, put aside for later.
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Utilizing an electrical mixer (paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer), cream the butter on medium pace till clean. Subsequent, regularly add the sugar and beat till mild and fluffy for 3 to five minutes.
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Add the eggs one after the other, mixing after every till the yolk is included.
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Add the vanilla extract to the 1 cup of buttermilk.
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With the mixer on low pace, add the flour combination alternately with the buttermilk to the butter/sugar/egg combination within the mixing bowl. Start and finish with the dry components. I do three additions of dry, alternating with two additions of moist.
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Divide the cake batter between the three ready pans.
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Bake at 350℉ for 20-25 minutes or till an inserted toothpick comes out clear or with only a few moist crumbs hooked up (or the facilities of the layers spring again when calmly touched). Bake occasions might fluctuate!
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This makes roughly 7.5-8 cups of batter.
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Enable to chill within the pans on a wire rack for ten minutes earlier than turning out.
For the Sliced Strawberries
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Fill a medium sized bowl with the sliced strawberries, sprinkle with 3 tablespoons sugar, and stir to mix. Cowl with plastic wrap and retailer within the fridge till prepared to make use of. The sugar coated strawberries will start to launch strawberry juice as they sit.
For the Sweetened Whipped Cream
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Chill the blending bowl and beaters/ whisk attachment within the freezer for 10 minutes.
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Pour the whipping cream, powdered sugar and vanilla into the chilled mixing bowl, start beating on low pace regularly growing to medium excessive pace.
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The cream begins to thicken (approx. 1 ½ minutes) and mushy peaks kind. (Peaks that barely bend over.) Watch carefully as this occurs shortly. Don’t over combine.
Assembling the Strawberry Shortcake
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As soon as the cake layers have cooled, it’s time to assemble the cake!
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Place the primary pound cake layer on the cake base or pedestal.
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Subsequent, poke small holes right here and there excessive of the cake with a picket skewer or the tines of a fork. This permits for higher absorption of the strawberry juice.
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High with a layer of whipped cream. (Needless to say you will have to order sufficient for the following cake layer in addition to the highest of the cake.)
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Repeat for the following cake layer. (Poking small holes within the high, including strawberries, then whipped cream.)
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High with the ultimate cake layer and high with the remaining whipped cream.
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High with entire or freshly sliced strawberries. If you would like, you can too press thinly sliced recent strawberries right here and there across the sides of the cake if you need much more berries to indicate.
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Retailer within the fridge beneath a cake dome or hermetic container. Take away from the fridge about one hour earlier than serving.
Substitution for Cake Flour: Utilizing all goal flour (plain in UK) to make Cake Flour: For every cup of flour in a recipe, take away 2 Tablespoons of flour and substitute with 2 Tablespoons cornstarch (cornflour within the UK). This recipe has 3 cups of flour so you’ll measure out 3 cups of all goal flour, take away 6 Tablespoons and substitute with 6 Tablespoons cornstarch, whisk to mix.
Freezing: The cake layers could be made prematurely and frozen for as much as three months. Wrap every layer tightly with plastic wrap adopted by a layer of aluminum foil. To thaw, transfer to the kitchen counter, nonetheless wrapped and thaw for 30-45 minutes earlier than unwrapping. The layers will proceed to thaw utterly as you assemble the cake.
