Many consider strawberries an amazing berry, and for good reason. It is used for baking in a fresh, frozen, dry, grated form, giving it a unique look, taste and aroma. The festive cake with strawberries is tender and airy, and you can bake it at any time of the year.

Chocolate Cake with Fresh Strawberries

To prepare a bright and delicious chocolate cake with strawberries, you need not the simplest set of ingredients. However, the result is worth it.

So, let's take for the test:

  • 2 eggs;
  • 0.3 kg of flour;
  • 0.1 l of vegetable oil;
  • 1.5 tsp baking powder;
  • 0.3 kg of granulated sugar;
  • 0.25 liters of milk;
  • 4 tbsp. l cocoa powder;
  • 1.5 tsp soda.

For the filling and cream:

  • 0.4 kg of cottage cheese;
  • 0.5 l thick sour cream;
  • 0.2 kg of sugar;
  • 0.6 kg of strawberries.

Step by step cooking:

  1. Sift flour through a sieve, combine with sugar, cocoa, soda and baking powder.
  2. Beat eggs with a whisk. Mix with butter and milk.
  3. Combine a mixture of liquid and dry components.
  4. Add 1 cup boiling water, stirring until smooth.
  5. Pour the dough into a split mold with parchment paper at the bottom. Bake in an oven preheated to 220 degrees for 5 to 6 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 180 degrees and leave in the oven for another three quarters of an hour.
  6. Cool the finished biscuit on a wire rack and divide into 3 identical cake layers.
  7. For cream, beat sour cream with cottage cheese, adding sugar.
  8. Forming a cake is recommended in a detachable form. Spread cakes and smear them with cream, evenly falling asleep with fresh berries.
  9. After that, it remains only to fill the product with the remaining tasty mixture and leave it in the cold for 1.5 - 2 hours.

Cakes during this time are impregnated and become airy, the cream freezes.Having removed the cake from the mold, you can decorate it with halves of fresh strawberries on top. This dessert looks very impressive and beautiful.

From biscuit cakes

To prepare a homemade biscuit cake with berries, you need to use the following components for cream and filling:

  • 1 liter of 35% cream;
  • 0.1 kg of powdered sugar;
  • frozen strawberries.

For shortcakes:

  • 6 eggs;
  • 0.2 kg of sugar;
  • 1/3 Art. l baking powder;
  • 0.25 kg of flour.

For impregnation:

  • 4 tbsp. granulated sugar;
  • 4 tbsp. water;
  • syrup.

Cooking method:

  1. Beat sugar with eggs.
  2. Sift flour, mix with baking powder. Add in small portions to the whipped mixture, stirring with a spatula with movements from top to bottom.
  3. Pour the finished dough with a liquid consistency into a baking dish with parchment. Bake for 25-30 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
  4. Cool the biscuit. Divide into equal cakes with a long knife.
  5. Whip cold cream for cream.
  6. Add the powder in small pieces while continuing to whisk.
  7. For impregnation, mix strawberry syrup with sugar and melt the latter over low heat until dissolved.
  8. Soak cakes with the resulting liquid.
  9. Lubricate them with cream and spread the sliced ​​berries.

There are many ways to decorate a cake with strawberries. The most common and easiest is to lay out beautifully chopped berries on a cream-filled dessert.

Delicate dessert with mascarpone

To make an airy souffle cake with Mascarpone and strawberry flavor, you must use the following products:

  • 0.12 kg of wheat flour;
  • 0.25 kg of sugar;
  • 6 eggs;
  • 4 tsp butter;
  • 0.5 kg Mascarpone;
  • 0.1 kg of powdered sugar;
  • 0.2 l of cream;
  • 20 g of gelatin;
  • 1 sachet of jelly for filling the cake;
  • 0.2 kg of strawberries;
  • 0.1 l of water;
  • 3-4 tsp strawberry liquor or sauce;
  • "Petals" of almonds.

Step by step recipe:

  1. Beat 3 egg yolks with 100 g sugar, add vanilla. Introduce the sifted flour in parts.
  2. Beat the eggs of 3 eggs with 50 g of granulated sugar until you get dense, persistent peaks. Mix the mass with a spatula in the dough, pour the melted butter in a cooled state.
  3. Lubricate the baking dish with butter or cover with parchment. Bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees, checking readiness for a dry toothpick after 25 - 30 minutes.
  4. Cool the finished biscuit. Divided into cakes, soak in strawberry syrup, which is prepared by dissolving sugar in water with the addition of liquor.
  5. Pour the 6th Art. l water gelatin.
  6. Beat 3 egg yolks with powder and vanilla.
  7. Pour in cream and add Mascarpone, bring to uniformity. Pour melted gelatin into a cream in a thin stream, whisking with light movements.
  8. Proteins are whipped with salt separately. Then they need to be added to the cream, carefully interfering with a spatula.
  9. Pour the biscuit with cream into the mold and leave it in the cold for 50 minutes. Garnish the finished dessert with strawberry slices, pour jelly and again send in the refrigerator for 5 - 6 hours.
  10. Smear the sides of the finished product with whipped cream and sprinkle with almond "petals".

Cake "Strawberry with cream"

 

To prepare a cake that is soft and airy in texture, you need to use the following components for the biscuit:

  • 5 eggs;
  • 0.19 sugar;
  • 0.1 kg of flour;
  • ½ tbsp l vanilla.

For meringue:

  • 3 egg whites
  • 0.13 kg of sugar;
  • ½ tbsp l vanilla.

For syrup:

  • 100 g of granulated sugar;
  • 0.3 kg of strawberries;
  • 60 ml of water.

For whipped cream:

  • 650 - 800 g of cream 33 - 35%;
  • 5 tbsp. l powders.

For filling, use 0.5 - 0.6 kg of berries.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. In a standard way, prepare a biscuit, cool and cut into 4 cakes.
  2. Prepare meringue by whipping proteins until lush foam is formed, pouring sugar and vanillin.
  3. Draw an even circle on parchment spread on a baking sheet. Distribute the meringue. Bake 13-15 minutes at 180 degrees.
  4. Pour washed and chopped berries into a pot with sugar and water. Leave to simmer for 5 minutes. Mash the berries until mashed, pass through a sieve.
  5. Whip the cream.
  6. Spread cakes alternately, soak them in syrup. Cover with cream and chopped strawberries. Lay the meringue between the cakes so that it becomes the middle layer of the cake.
  7. This is followed by whipping cream and decorating the cake with strawberries.

At the time of baking, the meringue will increase in volume, and when removed from the oven, it will drop.

With the addition of bananas

Creating a berry cake, you can add other fruits to the filling. We will try to use bananas.

To make such a dessert, you need the ingredients:

for shortcakes:

  • strawberries - 0.15 kg;
  • water - 0.125 l;
  • vegetable oil - 0.1 l;
  • sugar - 0.14 kg;
  • flour - 0.315 kg;
  • baking powder - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • vanillin.

For filling:

  • strawberry syrup - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • mint syrup - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • 12 whole berries of strawberries;
  • half a banana.

for decoration:

  • Strawberry;
  • mint leaves;
  • icing sugar.

Step by step cooking:

  1. Make mashed strawberries. Combine with sugar and water.
  2. Add flour, butter, baking powder and vanilla.
  3. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
  4. Divide into 3 cakes.
  5. Soak the first cake with strawberry syrup and cover with banana slices.
  6. Soak the next cake and cover with pieces of berries.
  7. Soak the top layer with mint syrup.
  8. Cover it with cake, sprinkle with powder, garnish with berries and mint leaves.

Cooking with Frozen Berry

To prepare a cake using frozen strawberries, you do not have to perform any complex actions.

It is enough to prepare for the test:

  • 0.35 kg of flour;
  • 0.2 kg butter;
  • 8 tsp Sahara;
  • 1 egg
  • ½ tsp soda;
  • salt.

For filling:

  • 4 tsp flour;
  • 5 tbsp. l Sahara;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 0.6 kg of frozen strawberries;
  • 0.4 l sour cream.

Cooking method:

  1. Beat butter and sugar with a mixer.
  2. Combine the flour with the egg, slaked soda and salt.
  3. Form from a rested dough in the form of a bottom and sides. Put strawberries. Leave in the cold for 10 to 15 minutes.
  4. Beat sugar, eggs and sour cream to fill. Pour in flour.
  5. Pour the mixture onto the cold base of the pie.
  6. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 20 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 180 degrees, bake another 15 - 20 minutes.

Cut the cake is already in a well-cooled state, when its aromatic contents cease to soar.

Jelly cake

To prepare the summer version of the dessert you will need:

  • 200 g shortbread cookies;
  • 100 g butter;
  • 300 g of cottage cheese;
  • 500 ml cream;
  • 150 g of sugar;
  • 15 g of gelatin;
  • 500 ml of water;
  • 8 g of vanillin;
  • 77 g jelly;
  • Strawberry.

Phased recipe:

  1. Dilute gelatin with water.
  2. Grind cookies into crumbs. Mix with softened oil.
  3. Put the base of the cookies in the dish. Leave in the cold for 30 minutes.
  4. Mix cream, vanilla, sugar with a mixer.
  5. Rub the cottage cheese. Combine with previously prepared mass.
  6. Pour in gelatin.
  7. Pour the curd souffle into the cake pan and leave it in the cold for 120 minutes.
  8. Dissolve strawberry jelly in 0.4 l of water.
  9. Put the beautifully sliced ​​berries on the cake, pour them in jelly and leave to cool completely for 5 - 6 hours.

How to decorate homemade strawberry cake

You do not need to be a professional pastry chef to decorate a biscuit cake or other pastries beautifully and elegantly with berries.

The most winning combinations include:

  • a combination of strawberries and cream;
  • contrast of whole berries on a chocolate cake drenched in ganache;
  • complementing the decor with mint leaves, wafer rolls and chocolate coins;
  • distribution of berries in the center of the finished baking, crescent, in a circle.

In this matter, it is important to have a sense of proportion so that the cake does not look bulky and bulky. The rest will help the imagination and preferences of the guests for whom the treat is prepared.

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