Strawberry Cream Cake with a Genoise Light Sponge Cake
The genoise light sponge cake is the base for this simple yet light and refreshing dessert with fresh cream and strawberries. This strawberry cream cake is the perfect dessert when you need something indulgent yet light and refreshing especially when strawberries are in season. Can be made a day ahead of time using my stabilized whipped cream method.
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If you need a dessert that simple but light and refreshing? This is it. Don’t get me wrong – when I say light I don’t me light on calories I mean not as heavy as a dense chocolate cake would be with chocolate frosting. Whipped cream is not low in fat but it does feel light and refreshing. Doesn’t it? So again, if you need an indulgent yet light and refreshing dessert? This is it.
Genoise based sponge cake layered with strawberries and fresh cream. Like I said unlike other cakes, this is a much lighter cake and perfect after a heavy meal. Because the genoise gets its lightness from the egg whites with very little fat.
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- Genoise – light Sponge Cake – Have you tried making my Genoise – it’s a light sponge cake? With my super easy and detailed explanation, you should have no problem at all. What do you do with the two layers of Genoise? Well, you make this strawberry cream Cake. Oh, it’s addictive!
- Simple moist chocolate cake – Now if you not up to making a Genise cake or are a chocolate strawberry kinda mood? Well, try my simple moist chocolate cake. It is very light as well.
- Whipped cream – whipped cream can really make a light cake lighter unlike heavy buttercreams or ganache frosting. Don’t get me wrong I love them too but sometimes I just need something as light as whipped cream. If you need to make this dessert a day or two ahead – I highly recommend you stabilize the whipped cream. It’s really simple and I’ve explained in more detail here. How to stabilize whipped cream.
- Strawberries – This cake is best made when strawberries are in season. Frozen just don’t look as appetizing on a fresh fruit cake unless that’s the look you are going for. Frozen fruits, when thawed, look very limp, you can use them in between layers but make sure you drain any excess moisture to prevent it ruining the whipped cream.
If you choose to use frozen strawberries between layers, perhaps you can use a strawberry filling for the top as a drip. Or pipe a whipped cream border and pour the strawberry filling so it stays inside the border. Make sense? Just how I did in my Chocolate cherry cake where I piped a border of cream and then poured the cherry filling in the middle.
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No piping no special skills needed
The last time I posted a cake with whipped cream I had a few concerned women who said they are not very savvy with the piping bag or piping designs onto a cake like me. Some said they did not have the time to do the extra frills.
- 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 – you can also create rustic designs
- Third, this does not look 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.
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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 head 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.
- Having said that, a simple Bowl, whisk and Spatula with a little extra effort will do the trick 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
- Genoise – light sponge cake – 2 layers Or – recipe with step by step here
- Simple moist chocolate cake – 2 layers – recipe video here
For the filling and frosting
- Whipped cream – 500 ml (2 cups) (how to whip cream – 4 methods)
- Fresh strawberries – 400 grams (1 lb) – approx.
- Simple syrup – 1/2 cup (boil one cup water with 1/2 cup sugar for 3 minutes)
Method
Cake Layers
- Bake and cool the Genoise using my step by step here – 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
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Decorate the cake
- Choose about 8 firm and similar size strawberries to decorate the top and slice the remaining.
- Place one layer of the cake on a serving platter.
- Sprinkle with simple syrup evenly as possible.
- 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.
- Spread more whipped cream on the top and sides of the cake with a spatula.
- Now leftover 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.
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Strawberry Cream Cake Recipe
The genoise light sponge cake is the base for this simple yet light and refreshing dessert with fresh cream and strawberries. This strawberry cream cake is the perfect dessert when you need something indulgent yet light and refreshing especially when strawberries are in season. Can be made a day ahead of time using my stabilized whipped cream method.
Print Pin Rate Adjust Servings Here: 24 servings
Calories: 90kcal
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Ingredients
For the cake
- 2 layers Genoise - light sponge cake recipe with step by step here
- 2 layers Simple moist chocolate cake recipe here
For the filling and frosting
- 500 ml Whipping cream or
- 400 grams Fresh strawberries
- 120 ml Simple syrup boil one cup water with 1/2 cup sugar for 3 minutes
Instructions
Cake Layers
- Bake and cool the Genoise using my step by step here - 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 remaining.
- Place one layer of the cake on a serving platter.
- Sprinkle with simple syrup evenly as possible.
- 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.
- Spread more whipped cream on the top and sides of the cake with a spatula.
- Now leftover 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.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 90kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 0g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 28mg | Sodium: 11mg | Potassium: 44mg | Fiber: 0g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 6.1% | Vitamin C: 12% | Calcium: 1.7% | Iron: 1.4%
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Lisa
Hi with the cream . Could i use wippin n ice and add the strawbbery in the middle thank you
Veena Azmanov
Lisa. I don’t know what whipping n ice is but I presume it is like whipped cream. So yes, you can use that. And yes, you can add strawberries in the middle.Thanks
Unknown
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.