I just made a great cake! Vanilla-Cream and Strawberry.

[liberalnurse]

I used a vanilla cake recipe.......two layers. base layer was covered with strawberry preserves. Top layer was dug-out with a middle well. I placed a mixture of heavy whipped cream and mascarpone inside the well....then filled it up fresh, sugared strawberries....I then iced the sides of the cake with butter-cream icing and garnished the cake with large whole strawberries and powdered sugar.

[NMDemDist2]

1. YUM!!! it's a good thing i just finished dinner or i'd be baking after

that great description! :applause:

[liberalnurse]

2. It looks so pretty too.

I made one last week for a co-worker who wanted her birthday cake made with some hint of strawberries. That is what I came up with....but I used 4 layers for her cake. I used the King Arthur's Butter-Vanilla cake mix....I cheated a bit. I don't bake enough cakes to buy the bag of Guinevier Flour for cakes. Close enough for me. I think one can buy a vanilla box cake at the grocery store.

[Lugnut]

3. Oh my!

I'm a strawberryholic and you've just made me drool. :)

[Nicole]

4. That sounds good

I love strawberries.

[liberalnurse]

5. I think it would be a good cake

to enter in a cake contest. Does anyone know of one that has some cash prize?

[Nicole]

6. There's the Pillsbury Bake Off

but they have already announced this year's winner. It's not really a cake contest though, they have several categories. This year's grand prize winner of a million bucks made a chicken dish.