Strawberry Cream Cake with Genoise;Light Sponge Cake
Rustic yet delicately light strawberry cream cake made with Genoise light sponge layers, lost of fresh chopped strawberries and the luxury of whipped cream.
Simple and Easy Strawberry Cream Cake
My Genoise – light Sponge Cake
Simple and Easy Strawberry Cream Cake
No Piping no special skills needed
- First, you do not need to really be good at piping to do simple things such as this.
- Second, you do not always need to use the piping bags and I’ll show you how here.
- Third, this does not looks so fancy but you can do a lot of it ahead by using my stabilized whipped cream and then add strawberries just an hour or so before you.
Personally, I would prefer to pipe a fancy border; but, today in response to the above comments on piping bags and fancy tools, I have not used any fancy tools, no piping bags just a teaspoon. This is plain, simple and easy just for you.
Simple and Easy Strawberry Cream Cake
- Genoise – Light Sponge cake – 2 layers
- Whipped Cream – 500 ml (2 cups)
- Fresh Strawberries – 400 grams (1 lbs) – approx.
- Simple syrup – 1/2 cup
Method:
For Simple Syrup – heat 1/2 cup sugar in 1/2 cup water until dissolved. Cool before use.
Cake Layers
- Bake and cool the Genoise – Light Sponge Cake as shown in the my previous post – Vanilla Genoise Recipe – Light Sponge Cake
- If you bake a single layer of Genoise – split it in half horizontally so you have two layers
Whip the cream.
- You could just whip the cream with the sugar in an electric mixer.
- If you plan to make the cake a day ahead I suggest you stabilize the whipped cream so it holds up better in the fridge.
Here a detailed post on how you stabilize whipped cream – 5 different methods
Strawberry Cream Cake
Decorate the cake
- Choose about 8 firm and similar size strawberries to decorate the top and slice the rest.
- Place one layer of the cake on a serving platter.
- Add a few spoons of the simple syrup
- Spread a dollop of whipped cream.
- Place the sliced strawberries on top
Strawberry Cream Cake
- I prefer another small dollop of cream over the strawberries so they don’t move around too much
- Place the second layer of cake on top of the strawberries and cream.
- Spread more whipped cream on the top and sides of the cake with a spatula or knife.
Strawberry Cream Cake
- Now use the left over whipped cream to decorate.
- You could put it in the piping bag and pipe a simple design OR
- Use the back of a spoon and make deep lines straight or at an angle.
Nothing fancy – just take the back of your spoon press into the cream and pull upwards. - Use the same spoon and drop spoon fulls of cream on the top.
Strawberry Cream Cake
- Since you have eight strawberries make eight such dollops.
- Then place the strawberries on each dollop.
- I placed the balance sliced pieces of strawberry in the center too.
- Place a tbsp of powder sugar in a sieve and dust the top with powder sugar.
- That’s it. NO fancy tools and yet delicious and luxurious.
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Simple and Easy Strawberry Cream Cake
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Simple and Easy Strawberry Cream Cake Recipe
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Yield 9 Serving
Rustic yet delicately light strawberry cream cake made with Genoise light sponge layers, lost of fresh chopped strawberries and the luxury of whipped cream.
Ingredients
- Genoise - Light Sponge cake - 2 layers
- Whipped Cream - 500 ml (2 cups)
- Fresh Strawberries - 400 grams (1 lbs) - approx.
- Simple syrup - 1/2 cup
Instructions
For Simple Syrup - heat 1/2 cup sugar in 1/2 cup water until dissolved. Cool before use.
Cake Layers
- Bake and cool the Genoise - Light Sponge Cake as shown in the my previous post - Vanilla Genoise Recipe - Light Sponge Cake
- If you bake a single layer of Genoise - split it in half horizontally so you have two layers
Whip the cream.
- You could just whip the cream with the sugar in an electric mixer.
- If you plan to make the cake a day ahead I suggest you stabilize the whipped cream so it holds up better in the fridge.Here a detailed post on how you stabilize whipped cream - 5 different methods
Decorate the cake
- Choose about 8 firm and similar size strawberries to decorate the top and slice the rest.
- Place one layer of the cake on a serving platter.
- Add a few spoons of the simple syrup
- Spread a dollop of whipped cream.
- Place the sliced strawberries on top
- I prefer another small dollop of cream over the strawberries so they don't move around too much
- Place the second layer of cake on top of the strawberries and cream.
- Spread more whipped cream on the top and sides of the cake with a spatula or knife.
- Now use the left over whipped cream to decorate.
- You could put it in the piping bag and pipe a simple design OR
- Use the back of a spoon and make deep lines straight or at an angle.Nothing fancy - just take the back of your spoon press into the cream and pull upwards.
- Use the same spoon and drop spoon fulls of cream on the top.
- Since you have eight strawberries make eight such dollops.
- Then place the strawberries on each dollop.
- I placed the balance sliced pieces of strawberry in the center too.
- Place a tbsp of powder sugar in a sieve and dust the top with powder sugar.
- That's it. NO fancy tools and yet delicious and luxurious.
Courses Dessert
Cuisine French
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 100 g
Amount Per Serving | ||
|---|---|---|
Calories 275 | ||
% Daily Value | ||
Total Fat 18.5 g | 28% | |
Saturated Fat 11 g | 55% | |
Unsaturated Fat 7.2 g | ||
Trans Fat 0.3 g | ||
Cholesterol 120 mg | 40% | |
Sodium 51 mg | 2% | |
Total Carbohydrates 24.7 g | 8% | |
Dietary Fiber 0.8 g | 3% | |
Sugars 17.2 g | ||
Protein 3.8 g | 8% | |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
It’s simple, easy and so refreshing.
I’m a cake decorator by profession so I rarely ever eat cake anymore but this…. nah this is different.
Strawberry Cream Cake
veena ,does this cake(genoise) hav eggs added to it during baking.or r there any vegan versions of it .would love to try this.