Strawberries And Cream Cake

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 2 3/4 cups cake flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 (3 ounce) package strawberry flavored jell-o®
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup strawberries, pureed
• 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries, sliced
• 1/2 cup margarine, softened
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups quartered strawberries

Recipe

Cook Time: 25 mins Ready Time: 1 hr 25 mins


• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). grease and flour three 9 inch round cake pans.
• in a large bowl, beat sugar, gelatin and butter until fluffy. add eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition. mix flour and baking powder, and beat alternately with the milk into the sugar mixture. fold in 1 teaspoon vanilla and pureed strawberries. divide equally into three 9 inch round cake pans.
• bake 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. cool for 10 minutes in the pans, then remove from pans and cool completely.
• to make the filling: beat whipping cream, 2 tablespoons sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla on high until stiff. fill each layer with 1/3 of the whipped cream and 3/4 cup sliced strawberries.
• to make the frosting: beat the margarine, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla until creamy. spread over the sides of the cake, and pipe an edge of frosting around the top of the cake.
• spread remaining whipped cream on cake top. top with quartered strawberries.