Moist Strawberry Cake Recipe with Velvet ABC

Name: Moist Strawberry Cake with Velvet American Buttercream
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 250 ml Strawberry Puree; 350 grams All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking powder; 1 tsp Baking Soda; 1/2 tsp Salt; 4 Eggs; 350 grams White sugar; 180 ml Cooking Oil; 1 tsp Vanilla Extract; 1/2 tsp Strawberry Extract ((optional)); 1/4 tsp Pink food color ((optional)); 4 cups Velvet American Buttercream or Vanilla Buttercream Frosting; 10 Fresh strawberries to garnish

March 31, 2018 By Veena Azmanov 59 Comments

Moist Strawberry Cake Recipe with Velvet American Buttercream

A moist strawberry cake can be an absolute treat eaten on its own or frosted with whipped cream or buttercream. This simple, easy and effortless recipe makes the most decadently rich, moist and light strawberry cake that melts in the mouth. Serve it on its own unfrosted as a coffee cake, frost it with whipped cream for a light dessert or with rich decadent buttercream for a more indulgent treat.

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Spring is here and the weather is getting warmer. Feels like it’s time to that. Put those winter comfort food recipes on the back shelf and bring in some spring/summer recipes. Did you see my Spring Daisy Wedding Cake? I loved making that cake. It felt like I could almost touch spring.

Strawberries are in season and we have had them almost every week these last month. I love a good strawberry cake, don’t you? My favorite, of course, is strawberry cake with fresh cream for frosting. My mom made it every single year as soon as strawberries were in season.

Today I bring you another strawberry cake, yes, another strawberry layer cake. This one is an oil-based strawberry cake while the previous one I shared was a butter-based strawberry cake. Both are delicious of course. This is light and airy and works an absolute treat with fresh cream or any light frosting.

The other is my butter-based strawberry cake. I often use that for my tiered wedding cakes, especially in summer. Because summer is really hot and humid so a good butter-based cake works best to stack and travel. I usually frost that with meringue or American buttercream but the option for frosting is so much more.

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Moist Strawberry Cake with Velvet American Buttercream

Frosting this cake.

I have frosted this with my velvet American buttercream but you could also use my vanilla buttercream frosting or strawberry buttercream frosting. My kids love this refreshing and light strawberry cream cupcakes so if you’re not in the mood for a cake you may perhaps like these cupcakes.

Honestly, the options for frosting a strawberry cake are endless as you know I love frosting and so I have over 30 plus buttercream frosting recipes for you on this blog. Take a look and see what best tickles your taste buds. Let me know if you try something new and exotic in the comments so I can try it too.

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Let’s talk ingredients and substitutes (Save/Pin)

Strawberries – I’m using fresh for this cake because strawberries are now in season. During the year I use frozen strawberries – just pulse them in the food processor until smooth.
All-purpose flour – regular all-purpose flour works just fine in this recipe. You can use cake flour but you will need two tablespoons more in this recipe.
Eggs – use fresh large eggs – to me large eggs are about 60 grams each.
Strawberry extract – this is, of course, optional if you don’t have it on hand use good old vanilla only. The strawberry extract does enhance the flavor of strawberry
Pink food color – again optional if you want to skip it but the strawberry puree does not really give the cake a naturally pink color. The batter when baked turns to a light pale but not pink color.

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Useful Tips and Tools

If you bake often, it would be a good idea to invest in a cake mixer. Because often we try to mix by hand and then we are too tired to give it enough creaming or mixing. So, if you are making this cake go ahead and remove that K-Mix or Kitchen Aid from your kitchen cabinet.You don’t have to buy an expensive stand mixer, a simple hand mixer works great too.
Personally, I believe in weighing ingredients by weight, which makes my kitchen scaleone of the most valuable items when baking.
The same goes for mymeasuring cups and measuring spoons. It’s always a good idea to have these handy and use them when baking rather than trying to guess measurements.
I think one set of baking pans is a must for anyone a home baker. Personally, I like to bake three layers rather than torte my cakes and it bakes faster too. For most of my layer cake recipes on this blog I use 3 x 6-inch round pans or 2 x 8-inch round pans.
Once baked always invert your cakes on a cooling rack. This encourages air circulation and prevents the steam from pooling at the bottom of the pan.
Every oven works differently. So the baking times are just guidelines. In the case of cakes, a skewer inserted in the center is a great indication. If the cake bakes too quick or too slow compared to the time given it might be a good idea to check if your oven needs calibration. An oven thermometer is a great little gadget to help keep the oven temperature in check. All you need to do then is adjust the temperature accordingly

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Ingredients

For the cake

Strawberry Puree – 250 ml (1 cup)
All-purpose flour – 350 grams (2 1/2 cups)
Baking powder – 2 Tsp
Baking Soda – 1 Tsp
Salt – 1/2 Tsp
Eggs – 4 large
White sugar – 350 grams (1 3/4 cup)
Cooking Oil – 180 ml or 3/4 cup
Clear Vanilla – 1 Tsp
Strawberry Extract – 1/2 Tsp (optional)
Pink food color- 2 drop gel or 2 tbsp liquid (optional)

Frosting and Decoration

Velvet American Buttercream or Vanilla Buttercream Frosting – 4 cups / 600 grams – you can
Fresh strawberries to garnish

Method

Prepare

Preheat oven to 170 C / 340 F
Grease and line two 7 inch round cake pans (or 3 x 6-inch pans)
Sift flour with baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

Mix Batter

Whip eggs into a mixer bowl using a whisk attachment on medium for two minutes
Then slowly add sugar one tablespoon at a time whipping constantly on medium
Once all the sugar is in; turn the mixer to medium-high and whip until light and fluffy – ribbon stage.
Slowly add the cooking oil
Followed by the strawberry puree
Lastly, add the extracts and pink food color.
Remove the batter from the mixer to add the flour
Add the flour in three batches – first with a whisk to prevent lumps
Then fold the remaining gently with a spatula

Bake

Pour batter into prepared baking pans
Bake in a preheated oven for about 25 to 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool in the pan for 5 minutes then remove from the pan and cool completely before you store or decorate.

Decorate with Buttercream

When cooled level and cut each layer in half horizontally giving you a total of four layers.
Sprinkle with sugar syrup to keep the layers moist
Layer and frost the layers with buttercream
Use to remaining buttercream to pipe borders.
Use fresh strawberries to garnish
Enjoy!

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A moist strawberry cake can be an absolute treat eaten on its own or frosted with whipped cream or buttercream. This simple, easy and effortless recipe makes the most decadently rich, moist and light strawberry cake that melts in the mouth. Serve it on its own unfrosted as a coffee cake, frost it with whipped cream for a light dessert or with rich decadent buttercream for a more indulgent treat.

Moist Strawberry Cake with Velvet American Buttercream

Author: Veena Azmanov

4.95 from 20 votes

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: 10 Baking Tips, baking, cake, strawberry

Adjust Servings Here: 12 servings

Calories: 134kcal

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cook Time: 30 mins

Total Time: 40 mins