We have a new favorite homemade Strawberry Cake recipe to share! We have fallen in love with this moist and flavorful scratch Strawberry Cake recipe. If you’ve been searching for “the one”, this is it! The search is over ;0)
Frostings that Taste Great with Strawberry Cake
This strawberry layer cake is bursting with wonderful strawberry flavor, and tastes oh so good with our Pipeable Cream Cheese Frosting recipe! Our Classic Cream Cheese Buttercream would be a great choice also, and is a bit softer.
If you’re looking for a double dose of strawberry, keep our Strawberry Buttercream Frosting Recipe in mind! This recipe is super easy to make and tastes fantastic, and is great for piping! We also have a delicious Strawberry Whipped Cream Cheese Filling that is so light with the perfect balance of cream cheese & strawberry flavor!
Not only do I absolutely LOVE the flavor of this strawberry cake, I also love that it calls for frozen strawberries! This means you don’t have to wait for strawberry season to roll around in order to enjoy a delicious homemade strawberry cake. You can make it year-round, and you should!
Thanks to Mom (our BeBe) for making sooo many versions of strawberry cake until we found our favorite. I have to admit though, it was fun sampling all of those different versions of strawberry cake along the way!
Reverse Creaming Method of Mixing
*This cake calls for the Reverse Creaming Method of mixing, for a moist & tender cake. The ingredients are added in a different order than the traditional creaming method, resulting in a slightly tighter crumb and velvety texture. We explain the steps in our recipe instructions, but you may find it helpful to watch our free video tutorial on the Reverse Creaming Method, which you can find here: The Reverse Creaming Method of Mixing.
Doctored Cake Mix Version of Strawberry Cake
If you prefer a doctored cake mix recipe, we have a great one for you: Strawberry Cake: Doctored Cake Mix Recipe.
A dressed up version of Strawberry Cake
If you REALLY want to dress things up, consider our Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cake recipe! We’ve used our delicious scratch strawberry layer cake, frosted in Strawberry Buttercream and drizzled it with a decadent ganache drip. I love the drama of a chocolate drip, and who doesn’t love chocolate covered strawberries! This strawberry cake would be perfect for Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, and more!
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Thanks for stopping by! We hope that you’ll give this fantastic scratch strawberry cake recipe a try soon!
Strawberry Cake from Scratch
This moist and flavorful Strawberry Cake from scratch is a favorite year-round!
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs, room temperature ( can warm the eggs by putting in a bowl of warm water for 5 minutes)
- 1 1/2 cups (340 g) strawberry puree ......I used frozen strawberries that were lightly sweetened, you could also use fresh.....puree the strawberries in food processor or blender
- 1 teaspoon (4 g.) vanilla
- 2 teaspoons (8 g) strawberry extract
- 2 to 3 drops AmeriColor Pink or your pink coloring of choice (optional but makes for a prettier shade of pink)
- 3 cups (342 g) cake flour
- 1 3/4 cups (350 g) granulated sugar
- 1 Tablespoon plus 1/2 teaspoon (14 g) baking powder
- 1 teaspoon (6 g) salt
- 1/4 cup (50g) vegetable oil
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) (113 g) unsalted butter, cut butter into small pieces so it can be added slowly during mixing process. I cut mine into 1/2 to 1 inch slices onto waxed paper on the countertop, letting it soften only about 5 to 6 minutes.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. (This recipe uses the reverse creaming method.)
- Grease and flour three 8 x 2 inch round pans
- In a separate bowl, combine eggs, strawberry puree, vanilla, strawberry extract, pink coloring (as desired). Blend together with a fork.
- In the bowl of your mixer, hand whisk the dry ingredients (cake flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt) for 30 seconds to combine. With your mixer on low to medium speed, add the pieces of butter, a few pieces at a time, also add the oil at this time. Mix until the dry ingredients form moist crumbs that look like coarse sand.
- Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl. Method is important when using Reverse Creaming, so with the mixer on LOW speed, SLOWLY add 1/2 of the egg mixture to the dry ingredients, increase the mixer to medium speed and beat for 1 1/2 minutes, the batter will be thick and fluffy.
- Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl, then add the remaining egg mixture in 2 pourings, beating 20 seconds after each. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl and pour into prepared pans.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pans 10 min. then turn out.
- Makes 7 1/2 cups batter IF USING FONDANT: If using fondant to cover the cake, our first choice is to cover the cake in ganache for a nice firm shell before laying on the fondant. You could also use all butter buttercream, that is well chilled to firm it up before the fondant.
- Cupcakes: This recipe will work for cupcakes, they will have only a slight dome**We frosted our cake with this Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe. (I piped spirals of frosting in varying sizes with my Wilton star tip 21.)
Hi Tammy, I think possibly that could be used but I have never experimented with jello so I don’t know how much you would add to the recipe. I sorry I can’t give you a definite answer.
Hi Tammy, I substituted the Strawberry purée with a 3.oz box of Strawberry flavored Jello I also used All Purpose Flour because I didn’t have cake flour and it came out great. I added half cup evaporated milk to it too.
Hi Jaiilise, Thanks so much for posting how you substituted Strawberry Jello for the puree, that is very helpful information.
When using strawberry puree do I cook this our use purée right out of the blender?
Hi Patricia, The strawberry puree is not cooked, use right out of the blender. Hope you enjoy the cake.
Hi, what method do you use to measure the cake flour?
Hi Kimberly, We use a scale to weigh the ingredients. It is the most accurate way to measure. If you do not have a scale, spoon the cake flour into a measuring cup for dry ingredients (overfill slightly) and level off with the back of a knife. If you put your cup into a container of flour using the dip and sweep method, you will have more flour than you should per cup because some of it is being packed into the cup.
Hi, I typically make my cakes a few days in advance and freeze until I’m ready to decorate them. Do you think that this cake would do well frozen? I’ve never frozen a cake with fruit puree and not sure if that would alter the texture.
Hi Sera, We have frozen the layers and they were fine. Hope you enjoy the recipe.
I realized this cake doesn’t include milk in the recipe? Is this an error?
Hi Shy, The recipe is correct as written.
Hi can I use strawberry extract instead of puree?
Hi George, The 1 1/2 cups puree is necessary for this recipe.
Ok. Thanks BeBe. I made this cake 2 days ago and everyone loved it. Thank you 😄
That is wonderful, so glad you enjoyed the recipe!
The center cake is strawberry I used it fi a bridal shower turned out great.