Strawberry Dream Cake, a wonderful sweet and fruity cake and yes, very sweet. Perfect for a celebration or a family occasion.
In fact on a wonderful sunny Summer day there are many reasons to get inspired and go and make this cake. many will enjoy a naughty treat.
You will need:
3 x 8″ sandwich cake pans greased and lined
Strawberry Dream Cake
Strawberry Dream Cake, a wonderful sweet and fruity cake and yes, very sweet. Perfect for a celebration or a family occasion.
10
servings30
minutes30
minutes248
kcalIngredients
- For the cake
16 oz Self Raising Flour
16 oz Caster Sugar
16 oz Margarine
8 Eggs
2 tsp Vanilla Essence
1 punnet of Strawberries
- For the Filling and Topping
Jar luxury Strawberry Jam
500 g Butter
1 kg Icing Sugar
1 tsp Baby Pink Paste Colour (not liquid)
2 tsp Vanilla Essence
10 Luxury Chocolate Balls
100 g Milk Chocolate
Directions
- Cream butter and caster sugar together
- Add the beaten eggs and blend in
- Stir in the sifted Flour and then add Vanilla Essence
- Cut up your strawberries and mash with a potato masher
- Put the strawberries in a sieve, over a bowl, and mash with a fork to get most of the juice out.
- Fold the strawberries into your cake mixture and divide evenly between your three cake pans
- Place the cakes in the oven at 180 Degrees for about 30-40 minutes until done
- Take out and cool
- While the cakes are cooling make your icing
- Mix your butter,vanilla essence and icing sugar together until white and fluffy- take out 1/4 of the white icing and set aside
- Mix in the baby pink colouring into the rest of the mixture.
- Cut the tops off the cakes and sandwich together with your baby pink icing and strawberry jam
- Then cover the whole cake with your pink icing until you cannot see the cake inside
- Scoop your cooled chocolate into another icing bag and drizzle over the sides of the cake to make chocolate droplets down the side and then ice a circle of chocolate in the middle of the top
- Place your white icing in a piping bag and decorate
Your cake is now ready to eat
Enjoy!
