Recipe: Perfect Fresh Strawberry Cake

Fresh Strawberry Cake. This easy cake uses fresh strawberries and is topped with a sweet, sugary, strawberry frosting that is perfect for a party, holiday, or for an anytime dessert. When the season gives you beautiful fresh strawberries, turn them into delicious cakes. If strawberries aren't in season, you'll be glad to know many of these recipes work with frozen strawberries, too.

A truly excellent recipe that always turns out fluffy and oh-so moist. Topped with the rich and delicious cream cheese frosting, this cake is truly the best ever. This Easy Fresh Strawberry Cake starts with a boxed cake mix, strawberry jell-o, fresh strawberries and is topped with a sweetened cream cheese frosting! You can cook Fresh Strawberry Cake using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Fresh Strawberry Cake

1. Prepare of Cake.
2. Prepare 1 cup of mashed strawberries.
3. You need 2 1/2 cup of ap flour.
4. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
5. It's 2 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
6. Prepare 1/2 cup of butter.
7. It's 1 1/3 cup of sugar.
8. Prepare 2 large of eggs.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
10. Prepare of Cream Cheese Frosting.
11. It's 8 oz of cream cheese.
12. It's 1/2 cup of butter.
13. Prepare 3 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.
14. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

It is a deliciously simple way to use all those fresh-picked strawberries. The cake mix makes it easy but the fresh strawberries and cream cheese frosting make it taste totally homemade! But one of my favorite treats from Louisiana that I miss the most was actually not Cajun at all. A local bakery in Baton Rouge made a famous strawberry cake that folks would go crazy about every Spring!

Fresh Strawberry Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F and prepare 9x13 pan.
2. In a medium bowl: mix flour, salt, baking powder; set aside.
3. In a mixing bowl: cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time (beat well after each). Add vanilla and blend well..
4. Slowly beat in about 1/3 of flour mixture into creamed mixture with half of the strawberries.
5. Beat in another 1/3 of flour mixture and rest of strawberries.
6. Blend in remaining flour mixture and beat until smooth.
7. Bake 25-30 minutes. Cake will sprink back when lightly touched. Cool on rack..
8. Beat cream cheese and butter. Add powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat together until smooth.
9. Frost and enjoy!.

This cake was every bit as good as advertised, too. This Homemade Strawberry Cake is full of sweet, fresh strawberry flavor! Moist strawberry cake layers are paired with a strawberry cream cheese frosting for the ultimate strawberry cake! The texture isn't light and fluffy, but instead tender with a tight crumb. Hints for the perfect Homemade Strawberry Cake!