easy homemade strawberry cake recipe
This easy homemade strawberry cake is bursting with fresh strawberry flavor and is absolutely stunning. Your family will love it!
Servings 12
Calories 421kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup strawberries
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 3/4 cups white sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 ounce strawberry flavored Jello raspberry totally works, also
- 4 eggs room temperature
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup milk room temperature
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 8 inch cake rounds or a 9 by 13 inch pan
- Puree your strawberries, transfer to a small saucepan and boil gently until reduced by half (about 20 minutes). Cool completely. You want to end up with about 1/2 cup pureed strawberries --->TIP: double your strawberries if you want to make the strawberry frosting. You'll save yourself the step of doing those later!
- Add butter, sugar, vanilla, and Jello to a large mixing bowl. Beat until smooth.
- Add eggs one at time beating between each egg.
- In a separate bowl mix flour, salt, and baking powder.
- Add milk and flour alternately to the butter mixture. Beat well after each addition.
- Gently fold in strawberry puree.
- Pour into prepared cake pans.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick in the center comes out clean.
Nutrition
Serving: 1slice | Calories: 421kcal | Carbohydrates: 60g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 97mg | Sodium: 296mg | Potassium: 185mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 37g | Vitamin A: 585IU | Vitamin C: 7mg | Calcium: 78mg | Iron: 2mg