Strawberry Dream Cake

Name: Strawberry Dream Cake
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 10 ounces frozen, whole strawberries (2 cups); 3/4 cup, whole milk, room temperature; 6 , large egg whites, room temperature; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 2 1/4 cups (9 ounces), cake flour; 1 3/4 cups (12¼ ounces), granulated sugar; 4 teaspoons, baking powder; 1 teaspoon, salt; 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 12 pieces and softened; 10 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 2 1/4 cups (9 ounces), confectioners' sugar; 12 ounces, cream cheese, cut into 12 pieces and softened; Pinch , salt; 8 ounces, fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced thin (about 1 1/2 cups)

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2011, Cook's Country TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

American

Fruit

Cakes

Getting real fruit flavor into this strawberry layer cake took some wide-awake testing.

SERVES8 to 10

TIME1¾ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Strange as it may seem, the vast majority of existing strawberry cake recipes turn to strawberry Jell-O for flavor. Hoping to avoid this artificial solution, we performed test after test to figure out the best way to season our cake with ac...

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