STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM LAYER CAKE

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Categories     Cake     Berry     Dessert

Yield 10-12 servings

Number Of Ingredients 12

3/4 cup butter
11/2 cups sugar
3 cups sifted (sift before measuring) cake flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
6 egg whites, at room temperature
About 1 quart strawberries, 2/3 sliced lengthwise and 1/3 left whole
2 cups heavy cream (or 3 cups if using 9-inch cake pans), well chilled
3 tablespoons confectioner's sugar

Steps:

  • Grease 3 8-inch round cake pans and line with parchment paper, and grease the parchment paper. Cream the butter until very fluffy. Slowly add the sugar and keep beating until it looks like whipped cream. Sift flour with baking powder and salt. Combine milk with flavorings. Stir about 1/3 of flour mixture into the butter mixture. Add 1/2 of the milk mixture, and then repeat, ending with flour, beating after each addition. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into prepared pans and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly touched. Cool in the pans for 5 minutes, and then turn out onto cake racks. Peel paper away and cool completely. Beat cream with powdered sugar until stiff. Assemble cake with one layer topped with an even layer of berries, frosted with whipped cream. Repeat. When third layer of cake is on top, frost the sides and top with the remaining whipped cream, and decorate with whole strawberries.

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