I’d been meaning to make a strawberry cake for the past two years — ever since I saw a really good looking one at a gas station/bakery in La Grange, TX. It was baked in a giant sheet pan and was very tall, soft and pink. At first I thought maybe it was a box-based strawberry cake, but that particular gas station bakery is known for scratch and their using a box just didn’t seem plausible.
Since then I’ve had strawberry cake in the back of my mind, but the recipes I found were either too artificial-y or too scratch-y. And by scratch-y, I mean they just didn’t have the borderline garish pink hue I needed. The one little girls are drawn to even if they know deep down they’d rather eat something chocolate. I’d almost given up until I found this recipe, which ended up being a moist, flavorful and delicious cake. Todd liked eating it, I liked looking at it, and Fuzz wanted to like it but didn’t….which is the way kids are with strawberry cakes, I supposed.
ONE SUGGESTION: Domino calls for regular butter and the recipe doesn’t call for salt. There’s enough salt in the butter to give the cake the kick it needs. If you use unsalted butter, it’s a good idea to add 1/2 teaspoon of salt to the recipe.
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Anna, A co-worker asked me last week if I would bake her a strawberry cake and I have been searching for one that does not use cake mix or jello amd found this one at AllRecipes…I am going to give it a try this Monday or Tuesday:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Jesse-and-Steves-Fresh-Strawberry-Cake/Detail.aspx
Any thoughts? Yours looks lovely!
KAnn, the reviews were interesting. A lot of people made major changes, but most people gave the cake high marks. Sounds like it’s a good strawberry cake, just not pink and princess-y.
It’s interesting how many people wanted to avoid the old white cake mix/Jello/mashed strawberry cake.
Let me know how yours turns out.
Love s’berry cake…it was my fave when I was little!
Wow – that looks positively drool-worthy! I checked out the recipe but it calls for strawberry gelatin. Dunno why that just turns me off
But yanno, considering how great your cake looks I might just have to try this recipe!!
I am going to make a cream cheese icing and use a 9″ pan and I will let you know…AllRecipes reviews are always interesting!
Looks Delicious! I was thinking after all these cookies that a “light” strawberry cake sounded really good, then I looked at the recipe. Nothing really light about it. Oh well. Great photo!
GOOOOOORGEOUS cake – although I wouldn’t blame you if you truly WEREN’T over those amazing cookies :0)
My mom always made a jello strawberry cake in a bundt, then drizzled with a strawberry glaze.
The similar one, with lemon jello and a lemon juice/powd sugar glaze was even better! yum.
For birthdays sometimes she would make the strawberry one in reg cake pans with a whipped cream frosting. man I remember those cakes…
How funny, I recently made a very similar strawberry cake (found online) that is justa bout identical for dh’s b-day last week. I was a bit leery of anything with jello in it, but heh, it was for just me and the 3 1/2 yr old. I also put some strawberry puree in the frosting so it was quite pink. My son insisted that it be made in the shape of a kitty cat (found a diy Hello Kitty cake), so I can only imagine what the coworkers thought when they recieved the leftovers — all pink and feline. Adding pureed fruit to the frosting was kinda good.
That is so pretty! I can see why Fuzz wanted to like it!
This is off topic but I was searching through my recipe box I stumbled upon a recipe for “Flame Cake”, which sounds an awful lot like red velvet cake. The recipe is from the mother of my best friend from high school. Their family was a good farm family with all kinds of wonderful recipes.
After graduation is over next weekend and the company clears out I can get back to baking what I want, and I might make this for old times sake, but I’m wondering if there is a good substitute for Crisco in a cake recipe? I’m pretty brave when making substitutions in cookies, but more cowardly when it comes to cakes. I’d like to sub butter or oil if I can. What do you suggest?
I haven’t had this cake in almost 30 years. I wonder if I’ll still be impressed by it?
Here is the recipe:
1) Mix 2 T. cocoa with 2 oz. red cake coloring.
2) Mix together 1 t. vinegar and 1 t. soda and set aside.
3) Cream together 1 1/2 c. sugar, 1 t. salt, 2 eggs, 1/2 c. crisco, 1 t. vanilla.
Add 1&2 to the creamed mixture.
Add 2 1/4 c. flour, and 1 c. buttermilk, alternately.
Bake in 9″ layer pans at 350 for 40 minutes.
Frosting:
Mix 2/3 c. milk, 3 t. flour, and cook until it coats spoon. (15 min.) Cool in refrigerator.
Cream 1 c. butter, 1 c. sugar, 1 t. vanilla. Add milk mixture to this 1 T. at a time. Beating constantly with electric mixture.
That looks wonderful! I just made the one from the Paula Deen magazine May/June 2008 issue. It was a very good cake with cream cheese frosting. I’ll try your recipe next! There is something about summer and strawberry cake…refreshing? Thanks, Anna!
Hi Anna!
Have you ever heard of this place?
Texas Pie Company
202 West Center Street
Kyle, TX
512-268-5885
I accidentally clicked on The Splendid Table http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/
which I have bookmarked, but I don’t remember why. As long as I was there I thought I’d scroll down and see what they’re talking about. They mentioned the Texas Pie Company, and moist strawberry cake with strawberry frosting. It’s funny how things like that come up at the same time isn’t it!?
Janet, I didn’t know Paula Deen had one. I’ll have to look for it.
Sue, there are a lot of small food companies. I’m sure I’ve seen Texas Pie Company goodies around, but I’ve never tried them. Kyle is pretty close to us.
Looks delicious! Has anyone tried the strawberry cake and icing recipe by Sprinkles-it was on Martha’s show. ?????
My goodness, Anna! What a beautiful cake – I love pink food!
Do you happen to have the recipe written down? I clicked on the link and it said that the page can’t be found.
Thanks!
Hi Christina,
Thanks for letting me know about the link not working. Here is the correct link. The recipe is from Domino sugar.
http://www.dominosugar.com/Recipe.aspx?id=756
Anna