How do I make this kind of cake?

Question

A long time ago at a party I went to, they had a really good cake (one of the best I'd ever had.) It was white cake, but it had a layer of strawberry sauce with little chunks of strawberries in the middle of the cake. My birthday is coming up in about 2 months, and it would be awesome to have that kind of cake at my party. Will it work if I bake 2 cakes, put a layer of strawberry sauce on one and then put the other cake on top of it? Thanks :)

Answer 1

Rae, a good way to make a nice strawberry sauce for layer cake is to use strawberry jam and fresh strawberries. Slice or chop your fresh strawberries. Put your jam in a saucepan and heat it up. When it's thinned, let it cool a bit, add your fresh strawberries and let it cool. It makes a wonderful filling. You can add more sugar, also, if you wish.

I'd make this a 4-layer cake for something really impressive.
It's really easy to split your 2 cake layers into 4 by using a piece of thread or dental floss. Here's how:

Place toothpicks, in 1 to 2 inch increments around the side of one of your layers, exactly half way up. Then, take a piece of thread or dental floss and lay it around the cake, on top of the picks. Tie the ends together & pull. The thread will cut right through the cake beautifully and mess-free. You don't have to use the toothpicks, but they will assure that it cuts the cake evenly.

Then you can spread your strawberry sauce between the layers.

I'd frost this with a very light whipped cream-type frosting, or even use cool-whip. Top the cake with whole or halved fresh strawberries to make it beautiful. Chill it and you're ready to serve. Yummy!

Polly

Answer 2

Yes it will work that way, however usually the way it is done is to split the cake in the middle and put layers of strawberry, or raspberry sorbeit between the layers and creating 4 layers of cake and three layers of sorbeit, then frost with white buttercreme frosting topped with whole strawberries. It is a very common french pastry.

Answer 3

sure, you could do that, or you could just bake one cake, cut it in half, and do the same thing. Maybe even make a strawberry buttercream, and put some quartered, macerated strawberries in the middle of the cake. damn, that's sounding pretty tasty. Might have to bake me a cake. And I'd go with a genoise cake, if you have somewhat decent baking skills.

Answer 4

1 lg. angel food cake
1 can Eagle Brand milk
1/3 c. lemon juice
1 (8 oz.) container Cool Whip
1 (10 oz.) pkg. frozen strawberries, thawed and undrained
1 tsp. almond flavoring

Cut 1 inch slice off top of cake, reserve. Scoop out center, making a tunnel, leave 1 inch on bottom of cake. Break removed cake center into pieces. Mix rest of ingredients, except strawberries. Save 1 1/2 cups. Add cake pieces to rest of Cool Whip mixture. Fold in strawberries. Fill tunnel with cake - Cool Whip mixture. Replace top slice. Cover with reserved Cool Whip mixture. Chill. Decorate with sliced fresh strawberries and almond slices.


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also try this this is a little more detailed made it for my hubbies bday he loved it

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001872strawberry_cream_cake.php

Answer 5

Bake the white cake, let it cool. Then punch holes in it with something about the size of a dime and pour the stawberry sauce in the holes. Cover with wgipped cream and chill.

Answer 6

Are you talking about Strawberry Shortcake with and Angel Food Cake Base?

Answer 7

no u should make one cake, pour the sauce on top, put it in the fridge overnight and let the sauce seep into the middle.

Answer 8

Hi Rae, use a Victoria Sponge mix,make two.. Then mix some Mascarpone with double the amount of whipped cream.
Then mash some ripe strawberries with caster sugar to taste
then mix with the cream and spread between the two sponges
and dredge with icing sugar,...Scrumptious..
Happy Birthday Rae.. Donno
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Answer 9

yes deffinatly thats how i would do it. But to be careful try it a couple days before to see if it works.