Strawberry cake: recipe with photo step by step

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  cakes

• Cooking time:

  1 hour

• Designed for

  Servings for a family 4 persons

Ingredients

• flour
• granulated sugar
• eggs
• baking powder
• gelatin
• mascarpone cheese
• powdered sugar
• jelly for cake
• fresh strawberries

A strawberry cake will appeal to everyone at home if it is cooked correctly. There are many options for making a dessert with strawberries, the cake can be baked, or cooked without baking.

Cream is used as a cream base, as well as meringues, mascarpone cheese and cottage cheese. A biscuit is taken as a basis, but if the cake is prepared without baking, then the basis is made from cookies, or ready-made biscuit cakes are used.

Cake with mascarpone and strawberries

This is a very delicate and delicious dessert, which is prepared on the basis of a biscuit, and mascarpone is used as a cream. The finished cake can be a decoration for any festive table.

Ingredients for a biscuit:

• flour (1 grade) 145 grams;
• granulated sugar - 155 grams;
• chicken eggs - 4 pieces;
• baking powder - 12 packs.

Ingredients for the cream:

• chicken eggs - 4 pieces;
• gelatin granules - 1, 5 tablespoons;
• salt - a pinch;
• icing sugar - 85 grams;
• mascarpone cheese - 540 grams.

Ingredients for decoration:

• cake jelly - 1 pack;
• fresh strawberries - 180 grams.

Cooking process:

To make a strawberry cake at home, you should strictly follow the recipe with step by step photos. To do this, they begin to prepare a biscuit dough, for it, the yolks and proteins are separated and left in different dishes. Add granulated sugar to both bowls and beat both masses thoroughly. The finished compositions are combined, flour and baking powder are added to them.

The finished dough is baked for half an hour, the oven temperature is set to 180 degrees.

As soon as the biscuit is ready, it is transferred to the wire rack and allowed to cool, after which it is covered with a towel and left for one day.

The cake is cut into two equal parts, the approximate thickness is two centimeters. After that, the preparation of the cream begins, gelatin is combined with water for it and let it brew, after which the granules are dissolved in a water bath. Cool the resulting mixture.

Chicken yolks are separated from the proteins and beaten with powdered sugar, after which the gelatinous mass is combined with the yolks. Immediately add soft cheese to the mass, mix everything to get a homogeneous mass. Whisk the whites with salt until a fluffy mixture is obtained.

The proteins are gently introduced into the cheese mixture and mixed with gentle movements.

Take only one part of the cake and put it on the bottom of the mold, then pour the cream mass, then put another cake and fill it with the rest of the cream. You can put strawberry pieces between the layers. The cake is refrigerated for 4 hours.

The strawberries are cut into thin slices, after which they are laid out on the surface of the cake, everything is poured on top with prepared jelly.

In this form, the dessert is again sent to the refrigerator for 5 hours.

Strawberry curd cake

Another easy way to make a strawberry cake at home. This dessert will appeal to all guests, and if you follow the recipe with step-by-step photos exactly, you can get a very beautiful cake.

Ingredients:

• sheet gelatin - 20 grams;
• cottage cheese with a fat content of 9% - 520 grams;
• high fat cream - 320 ml;
• shortbread cookies - 260 grams;
• ripe strawberries - 540 grams;
• strawberry yogurt - 240 ml;
• granulated sugar - 260 grams;
• butter - 150 grams.

Cooking process:

Shortbread cookies are crushed with a blender, after which melted butter is added to it and everything is mixed well.

Now you should prepare a split form, a layer of cookies and butter is laid on its bottom, and then it is pressed well to make a dense crust.

Cottage cheese is placed in a deep bowl, granulated sugar and the required amount of strawberry yogurt are added there, the components are mixed well. The best way to do this is with a hand blender.

The strawberries are washed and sorted, then cut into two or four parts, it all depends on the size of the berry.

Beat the cream with granulated sugar, you can use sugar powder. It is very important to use cold cream, and also to chill the bowl and whisk, then the cream will be very thick.

The finished creamy mass is combined with the curd mixture. The ingredients are gently mixed with a spatula.

The prepared gelatin is squeezed out of excess water and transferred to a ladle, where it is melted, the prepared jelly is poured into a creamy mass. Then add half the strawberries to the cream and mix again.

The rest of the strawberries are laid out on a biscuit cake, after which they are poured with a creamy mass. To decorate the top, you can use whole berries, or chop them. The dessert is placed in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours.

Strawberry soufflé cake

The step-by-step recipe for this dessert with a photo is simple to perform, every housewife will be able to prepare a delicate and fragrant strawberry cake at home.

Ingredients for a biscuit:

• chicken egg yolks - 6 pieces;
• baking powder - 1 pack;
• starch - 1 spoon;
• flour of 1 grade - 2 spoons;
• vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
• granulated sugar - 3 tablespoons.

Ingredients for soufflé:

• chicken egg whites - 6 pieces;
• granulated sugar - 6 tablespoons;
• ripe strawberries - 260 grams;
• gelatin granules - 22 grams;
• purified water - 110 ml;
• butter - 210 grams.

Ingredients for the glaze:

• fat cream - 65 ml;
• white chocolate - 110 grams.

Cooking process:

The yolks are combined with sugar and whipped, after which starch, sugar and baking powder are added to them. Vegetable oil is poured last. A cake is baked from the resulting dough. The top crust is cut off the finished biscuit.

Gelatin is poured with water, mashed potatoes are made from strawberries and sugar, and butter is whipped separately.

Sugar is added to gelatin and dissolved in a water bath. Whisk the whites with granulated sugar and add the resulting mixture to the butter. The last step is to add puree and gelatin.

A cake is placed in the mold, a soufflé is poured onto it and the dessert is removed to the refrigerator.

A glaze is prepared from chocolate and cream, the components are heated in a water bath.

Pour the cake with the finished icing and put it in the cold for several hours. You can sprinkle the dessert with puffed rice.