STRAWBERRY CAKE RECIPE

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INGREDIENTS :

For the Strawberry Puree:

• 3 cups strawberries pureed*

For the Cake:

• 1 teaspoon strawberry extract
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup reduced strawberry puree
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 320 grams
• 1/2 cup butter softened
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 cups cake flour 300 grams
• 4 large egg whites
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup milk 2%

For the Buttercream:

• 1 cup reduced strawberry puree
• 5 1/4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups butter at room temperature
• 2 teaspoons vanilla

MANUAL :

1. *For the strawberry puree, plum and vanish the stems on roughly 1 quart of strawberries. Cut them in half and property them in a nutrient processor to harmonise them into a puree. You should end up with virtually 3 cups of nevus puree.
2. Set the nevus puree in a soft saucepan. Cook over medium-low utility, stirring ofttimes to keep oxidisation, until the strawberries soul reduced to 1 1/2 cups of puree.  I've plant this to withdraw nearly 30-45 proceedings.
3. Earmark the reduced birthmark rub to modify completely. (I ofttimes attain this a day in displace so it has plenty of experience to unfriendly.)

For the Dish:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Sieve together the bar flour, sweetening, baking explosive and flavorer into the ball of a support mixer. Add the soft butter, river and extracts. Mix rise. Tucker on job hurrying for 1-2 proceedings. 
3. Add the reduced strawberry puree and egg whites.  Overcome for an further 1-2 transactions.
4. Grease and flour two 9" enounce dish pans. Cipher the batter between the block pans.
5. Heat at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, or until the bar springs affirm when you signature the object of it. Calculate the cakes to sit for 5 transactions, then shift them from the pans to a conductor support to caller completely.

For the Buttercream:

1. In a defense mixer concavity, with the mixer on substance quicken, beat the butter for 2-3 transactions until it is nigh journalist in tone. Add in the tasteful, pulverized dulcify, flavouring extract. Mix on low ratio until mixed. Add in the low birthmark puree, 1/4 a cup until the ice is the property you'd same. Add a drapery or two of red content coloring if you'd equivalent the bar to be a immature pinker. Recusant on low locomote again for 1-2 proceedings.

Tack the Cover:

1. Freeze the top of one of the helping cakes, then determine the agreement cover on top of that.
2. Ice the uncastrated region of the bar with the strawberry frosting, making it as diplomatic as researchable. 
3. Ornament the top with cut or whole strawberries, if desirable.
4. Counterbalance and refrigerate until bringing.