Easy Strawberry Birthday Cake, Homemade
A truly homemade strawberry birthday cake using fresh ingredients and a frosting that you can pipe adapted from the Bake Happy Book by Judith Fertig.
Servings: 10
Ingredients
- Baking spray for pans
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 1 2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fine sea salt
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 3/4 cup milk
- 3/4 cup strawberry sauce see notes
- 3 large eggs
- 1 recipe for Strawberry Buttercream Frosting found here
- 12 strawberries sliced
- 1/4 cup sprinkles
Instructions
- Spray pans with baking spray. You can use 2 pans and make cupcakes or 3 (8 inch 20-CM) pans
- Prepare strawberry sauce.
- Mix sauce with milk for a total of 1 1/2 cups liquid.
- Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time, mixing for one minute each.
- Sift together flour, salt, baking powder.
- Add to butter/sugar mixture the dry ingredients and milk mixture alternating and ending with dry mixture.
- Mix for three minutes on medium speed.
- Bake 8 inch cakes for 25 to 28 minutes for cakes at 350 degrees F (180 C).
- Bake cupcakes for 15-20 minutes.
- Remove from oven when toothpick comes clean.
- Cool completely.
- Freeze cakes for 15 minutes before frosting.
- Place first layer on cake dish. Add enough frosting be one inch high. Add sliced strawberries.
- Place second layer on top. Frost top.
- Top with Frosted Cupcakes.
Notes
You will need almost 2 cups of the strawberry sauce for this cake and frosting combined, which will require 8 cups of strawberries. Keep in mind you will need 12 strawberries for center of the cake.