Strawberry Cake Recipe
Delicious strawberry cake, with real strawberry flavouring!
Ingredients
For the 6 inch cake
- 425 g Self Raising Flour 15oz
- 425 g Room temperature Butter or baking spread 15oz
- 425 g Caster Sugar 15oz
- 5 medium eggs
- 1.5 tbsp Strawberry Flavouring
- 15 g Freeze dried diced strawberry
- Colour Splash Raspberry Food gel
For the buttercream
- 500 g Room Temperature Salted Butter
- 1 kg Icing Sugar
- 1.5 tbsp Freeze dried strawberry powder
- 2 tbsp milk
Instructions
To make the cake
- Sift your self raising flour into a mixing bowl and add the caster sugar, eggs, butter, strawberry flavouring and your freeze dried diced strawberries. Using a stand mixer or hand whisk mix this up until all combined.
- This step is optional, but to make it look more like a strawberry cake, add a small amount of pink gel colour and mix it through.
- Prepare your 2x 6 inch cake tins, by running a small amount of butter around the sides, dusting over some flour, making sure to remove any excess. Add a circle of parchment paper to the bottom. This will stop your cakes sticking to the side. Divide your mixture between the 2 cake tins.
- Bake your cakes in a preheated oven at 170 degrees Celsius for 1 hour.
- Once baked poke with a cocktail stick or skewer into the center. If it comes out clean then the cakes are baked all the way through.
- Leave your cakes to cool on a wire rack.
- Once cooled, level the cakes using a serrated knife. Also take off the caramelisation from around the edge to reveal the pink colour. Divide your cake layers into 2, giving you 4 layers in total.
For the buttercream
- To make the American buttercream sift the icing sugar into your mixing bowl. Then add the room temperature butter (make sure you are using real butter and not spread, as this would make it too soft) and milk.
- Mix the sugar and butter on a high speed for around 5 minutes, until smooth and creamy.
- You can then add the freeze dried strawberry powder. Add more or less, depending on your desired flavour.
- You can then use the buttercream to fill and decorate your cake. Watch the video to see how to I decorated the cake with a fondant strawberry on the front!