Today's Ruby Tuesday, a photo meme to celebrate all things Red, gives me a chance to show off my baking skills. Here is a picture of my very fresh, Strawberry cake with whipped cream frosting. I made this for a friend's son's graduation party because it is the graduate's favorite.
A few of my baking tricks include making a three layer cake by dividing the batter in thirds and reducing cooking time by a third. For example, if two eight inch cake pans take 30 minutes to bake, three layers will require approximately 20 minutes.
Between two of the layers I spread Seedless Strawberry Jam and then thinly sliced, rinsed and very well dried fresh strawberries. Between the top two layers, I apply whipped cream frosting.
Whipped Cream frosting is whipping cream, a little REAL vanilla extract, confectioners sugar and dash salt. The secret to great whipped cream frosting is to use a Deep, Metal bowl and thoroughly chill your metal beaters and bowl prior to whipping up your frosting.
To decorate with fresh fruit, it must be throughly washed and DRIED and also sized to take into account ease of cutability.
Of course, love and caring are sprinkled liberally.
(My detail oriented husband wiped off the crumbs on the cake stand before we delivered the cake, but unfortunately After I took this picture, can I tell you how much this bugs me to see crumbs there?? Ack!!)
23 comments:
oh it looks so pretty, so delicious and just soooo good! strawberry cake is my FAVORITE ... well, and choc. cake too!!!
Yum...can you send me a slice? I love strawberries!
YUM!!!!! That looks fabulous :)
That's just a beautiful cake.
Gorgeous! The first time I tried to put strawberries on the top of a cake I didn't know to dry them FIRST. Yikes...not picture perfect like yours:)
Oh my gosh! I didn't know about this whole Ruby Tuesday thing! I love the cake - strawberry cake is soooo yummy, and yours looks GORGEOUS!!!
This cake looks heavenly! I bet that it disappeared quite quickly!
Beautiful cake ... very tempting ;--)
Hugs and blessings,
This cake looks gorgeous and tasty! Maybe I'll get some time to try baking this when the babies come home from the hospital.
Didn't even notice the crumbs. Didn't get past the mouth watering cake! I love anything with whip cream frosting...
This really looks luscious and it sounds a lot like a cake we make here. Yummy!
Oh wow! I am impressed! What a beautiful cake and it sounds delicious!
We Martha's just can't help creating wonderful things, LOL ;-)
Oh yummy! I have a plate and a fork here ;)
Great photo and those strawberries look delicious.
Deb
Strawberry jam between the layers what a great idea.I need to go bake.YUMM. HRT
Oh...too much cream!
that looks amazing!!
MMM. That looks amazing.
I always put a bit of cream of tartar in the whipping cream, to stabilize it. . .
Sounds yummy and looks great - crumbs and all. I bake - my hubby decorates if you want it to look nice. We make a pretty good team.
I don't even like strawberries but that looks amazingly yummy!
I don't even like strawberries but that looks amazingly yummy!
That looks fantastic and yummy :)
Perfect dessert for a summer party! YUMMY!
Yum! I remember this one! Thanks for linking up :-)
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