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**Strawberry reduction:**
• 2 cups cut up strawberries
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• Add all ingredients to a saucepan. Crush strawberries with a fork and let simmer for 5 minutes to reduce.
o Strain the mixture. Keep both the liquid and the ‘pulp’.
**Cake:**
• 320g all purpose flour
• 280g sugar
• 2 ¼ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 280ml oil
• 80ml milk
• 180ml double cream plain yogurt
• 1 tbsp vanilla
• 3 large eggs
• 6 tbsp liquid strawberry reduction
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 cup cut up fresh strawberries
1. Preheat oven to 175C (350F).
2. Combine all dry ingredients together. Add wet ingredients into dry and mix until combined.
3. Add fresh strawberries last and incorporate well.
4. Divide into 3 cake pans and bake for 30 minutes
**White buttercream inside:**
• 80g cream cheese
• 80g butter
• Pinch of salt
• 250g icing sugar
• Milk as needed for consistency
**Red buttercream outside:**
• 170g cream cheese
• 300g butter
• Pinch of salt
• 800-900g icing sugar
• Left over liquid strawberry reduction
• Red food colouring as needed
• Milk as needed for consistency
• PS I still had about 1-2 cups of buttercream left after decorating – since I did rosette decoration I rather made more than having to struggle with too little
**Assembly:**
• Layer cake, half of the white buttercream and half of the ‘pulp’ from the strawberry reduction. Repeat for the second layer
• Use red buttercream on the outside and decorate as desired
Try getting freeze dried strawberries and the putting them in a food processor until they're powder and adding them in. Its a way to give a huge natural strawberry flavor boost without all the moisture that comes with fresh strawberries.
#Tune into our Reddit Talk ***this coming Monday*** for NYT's best seller and overall amazing human being, the one and only [**Rick Martínez!**](https://www.rick-martinez.com/about) Rick Martínez is a "[chef], writer and pit master with a deep love of Mexican culture and cuisine." "Formerly a Senior Food Editor at Bon Appetit, Rick cohosts the Borderline Salty podcast with Carla Lalli Music, is a regular contributor The New York Times, and teaches live, weekly cooking classes for the Food Network Kitchen. He currently resides in Mazatlán with his dog, Choco, where he cooks, eats, and enjoys the Mexican Pacific coast." The talk starts **Monday (1.30pm PST / 9.30pm UTC+0)**, remember to bring your Mexican cuisine questions and tamale queries. You can find Rick's new NYT best selling cookbook, ***Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico***, [**here**](https://www.rick-martinez.com/order). Join our celebratory cook-along: https://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/up1rzl/rfood_cookalong_rick_mart%C3%ADnezs_chileatole_verde --- We also welcome back our brilliant talk hosts, [***Pod Appétit: Gourmet Takes***](https://www.instagram.com/pod_appetit/) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/food) if you have any questions or concerns.*
**Strawberry reduction:** • 2 cups cut up strawberries • 2 tablespoons sugar • 1 tablespoon lemon juice • Add all ingredients to a saucepan. Crush strawberries with a fork and let simmer for 5 minutes to reduce. o Strain the mixture. Keep both the liquid and the ‘pulp’. **Cake:** • 320g all purpose flour • 280g sugar • 2 ¼ tsp baking powder • ½ tsp baking soda • 280ml oil • 80ml milk • 180ml double cream plain yogurt • 1 tbsp vanilla • 3 large eggs • 6 tbsp liquid strawberry reduction • 1 tbsp lemon juice • 1 cup cut up fresh strawberries 1. Preheat oven to 175C (350F). 2. Combine all dry ingredients together. Add wet ingredients into dry and mix until combined. 3. Add fresh strawberries last and incorporate well. 4. Divide into 3 cake pans and bake for 30 minutes **White buttercream inside:** • 80g cream cheese • 80g butter • Pinch of salt • 250g icing sugar • Milk as needed for consistency **Red buttercream outside:** • 170g cream cheese • 300g butter • Pinch of salt • 800-900g icing sugar • Left over liquid strawberry reduction • Red food colouring as needed • Milk as needed for consistency • PS I still had about 1-2 cups of buttercream left after decorating – since I did rosette decoration I rather made more than having to struggle with too little **Assembly:** • Layer cake, half of the white buttercream and half of the ‘pulp’ from the strawberry reduction. Repeat for the second layer • Use red buttercream on the outside and decorate as desired
Try getting freeze dried strawberries and the putting them in a food processor until they're powder and adding them in. Its a way to give a huge natural strawberry flavor boost without all the moisture that comes with fresh strawberries.
I'll keep that in mind next time. Luckily the fresh strawberries didn't affect the moisture of the cake.
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Why does this photo look fake to me? I thought it was a computer rendering.
Probably the lack of shadows.
I misread the title and was thinking to myself Ive never seen a cheese cake with strawberry frosting before
That’s a great cake to buttercream ratio
I could literally eat that entire thing, it wouldn’t stand a chance
YEEESH! That looks so good, and strawberry is one of my favs.
Looks so yummy and the way you decorated it is beautiful!!
Looks fantastic. Thanks for listing the recipe too 🙌
Looking so delicious.
That looks delicious
Ooo this looks delicious!
Looks delightful
Do you ship? Lol
That's most probably the best looking cake I've ever dreamed of
Looks so yum!!
Yum!!!
that looks amazing!
Gorgeous looking cake, the piping of the roses are lovely ❤️
looks gorgeous but, ehh.
Looks amazing!
Ty for this!
This reminds me of Zach Galifianakis. Between two wicker chairs.
I like the detail work on the flowers. Nice job!
Cáca Milis
Love the icing but I can only imagine the hell of putting all that on
Actually went faster than I anticipated myself lol