How To Make Easy Strawberry Cake

Easy Strawberry Cake with a soft and moist crumb and bursting with fresh strawberry flavor. I of our all-time favorite strawberry recipes.

Easy strawberry cake dusted with powdered sugar with strawberry sauce in a pitcher on the side and surrounded by fresh strawberries

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I promise this Easy Strawberry Cake becomes a new favorite for y'all. Fresh strawberries add together incredible flavor to desserts, similar our No-Bake Cheesecake, this pop Strawberry Pretzel Salad, or Mini Strawberry Cheesecakes.

Strawberry Cake Video:

Look until y'all endeavour the super simple strawberry sauce. It will make you want to lick your plate – it'due south just THAT adept! You will add information technology to your regular rotation for Dutch Baby Pancakes, waffles, Crepes, as a dip for soft French Bread.

Easy Strawberry Cake Recipe

This strawberry cake is winning in every style: simple ingredients, like shooting fish in a barrel to make, perfect for entertaining, and completely yummy. Everything about this cake is skillful. This is a crowd-pleasing dessert, but (and then you can't say I didn't warn y'all) it disappears fast!

This recipe is based on our wildly popular Blueberry Cake which was an instant striking and continues to be ane of the top 5 recipes on our weblog.

Slice of easy strawberry cake drizzled with strawberry sauce

Strawberry Cake Ingredients

The ingredients hither are pantry staples. This cake is loaded with fresh strawberries within and out. Betwixt the cake and sauce, y'all will need almost 2 pounds of strawberries.

The like shooting fish in a barrel strawberry sauce has only ii ingredients (strawberries and carbohydrate) and comes together quickly in a food processor or blender. Add sugar to taste if you take very sweet or very tart strawberries.

Strawberry cake ingredients with fresh strawberries

Tools you will demand

This recipe comes together fast with elementary ingredients and basic cooking tools. For best results, be sure to employ an electrical mixer to whip the eggs and carbohydrate.

nine-inch springform pan
Large mixing basin
Electric manus mixer
Blender or nutrient processor

Our Best Baking Tips

Utilize room temperature eggs – To bring eggs to room temperature quickly, identify cold eggs into a bowl of warm water (not hot) for v-7 minutes, then dry with paper towels and use in the recipe.
Do not over-mix – This is KEY! Once the flour is incorporated, stop mixing or the cake tin go dense.
Measure flour correctly – spoon flour into a dry ingredient measuring cup and scrape off the top with a directly edge. Why? Pushing your measuring cup into the flour bin can consequence in upwardly to 25% more compacted flour. Watch our like shooting fish in a barrel video tutorial on how to measure out correctly.

More than Easy Cakes

If you love piece of cake cakes like this strawberry cake don't miss these easy, one-pan cakes that don't require any frosting:

Summer Peach Cake,
Almond Cake
Country Apple tree Cake
Cranberry Bundt Cake

Common Questions:

Can I Substitute Sour Foam?

Yes! You can substitute sour foam with a evidently Greek yogurt. Whole milk Greek yogurt volition yield the best results.

Can I substitute a dissimilar fruit?

You can substitute a different drupe or even sliced stone fruit. See our list of "Like shooting fish in a barrel Cakes" beneath for inspiration.

Can I turn this into a ii-layer block?

This works best equally a unmarried layer because it is a heavier block. For a layered cake, nosotros recommend our 2-Layer Strawberry Cake.

How to Make this Gluten Gratuitous?

A reader shared this: "I used Cup4Cup Gluten-Costless Multipurpose Flour. It is expensive simply the best I've tried so far. Anyway, the block came out cracking. Nosotros loved information technology and I'm planning to make it once more for Easter. Just wanted to let any possible gluten intolerant folks know."

Can I make this Dairy Complimentary?

A reader shared the following: "I completely replaced the sour cream, with whole fat coconut milk from a can. I mixed it completely before measuring, and to compensate for the added wetness I reduced the oil to about 1/3 cup. It was still a little runny, but the bake was perfect."

Can I use a different sized pan?

We have only tested this in a nine″ springform pan. If blistering in a smaller pan, you will demand to broil a little longer or until a toothpick comes out make clean. If you experiment with various sizes, please allow me know in the comments.

Slice of easy strawberry cake - one of our favorite strawberry recipes

If you love strawberries, this strawberry block is a must-attempt. I'd pass you a generous slice if I could, pummeled with the strawberry sauce of course.

More Strawberry Recipes:

Strawberries Romanoff in Chiliad Marnier and foam
Strawberry Sauce – the perfect topping for breakfast or dessert
Panna Cotta with Berry Sauce is a crowd-pleasing party favorite
Strawberry Shortcake – an easy, well-loved archetype
Strawberry Scones – billowy soft and loaded with strawberries

Like shooting fish in a barrel Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Sauce

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: l minutes

Full Time: ane hr

Strawberry Cake with cut slice

Like shooting fish in a barrel Strawberry Cake recipe loaded with strawberries. And then soft, lightly sweet, moist and bursting with strawberry flavor. Don't skip that like shooting fish in a barrel and astonishing strawberry syrup!

Natasha Kravchuk

Skill Level: Easy

Cost to Make: $9-$xi

Keyword: easy strawberry block, strawberry block

Cuisine: American

Course: Dessert

Calories: 368

Servings: 10 slices (9″ cake)

Strawberry Cake Ingredients:

two large eggs, room temperature
one loving cup granulated carbohydrate
1 cup sour cream
1/2 loving cup light olive oil, or vegetable oil
i tsp vanilla excerpt
2 cups all-purpose flour , (*measured correctly)
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
12 oz strawberries, hulled
1 tsp powdered sugar , for dusting, optional

Strawberry Sauce Ingredients:

16 oz strawberries, hulled and halved
i/4 cup granulated saccharide, or to taste

Cake Prep:

Butter a 9" springform pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 375˚F. Gear up 12 oz of strawberries for the block: dice 6 oz of strawberries and slice the second 6 oz into halves.

How to Make Strawberry Cake:

In a large mixing basin, using an electric manus mixer (or stand up mixer), trounce together ii eggs with ane cup sugar on high speed for five minutes or until light in colour and thick.
Add 1 cup sour cream, i/2 cup oil, one tsp vanilla and crush on low speed until well combined.
In a minor bowl, whisk together: two cups flour, 2 tsp blistering powder and one/4 tsp table salt until well incorporated. With the mixer on med/low speed, add flour mixture to the concoction ane/3 at a time, letting the flour incorporate with each addition and continue mixing just until well combined. Practise not over-mix.
Pour half of the batter into prepared pan. Meridian with 6 oz of diced strawberries and so spread remaining batter over the meridian. Encompass the surface with vi oz of halved strawberries (cutting-side-down), pressing them down merely slightly into the batter. Broil at 375˚F for 45-55 minutes (mine was perfect at 50 min), or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Let cake rest in pan 15-20 min and then remove ring and cool to room temp or until just lightly warm.
Run a thin spatula around cake edges to loosen from pan. then transfer to a cake platter. Cool until just warm or at room temperature. To serve, grit with powdered saccharide if desired. Drizzle individual slices generously with strawberry syrup.

How to Make Strawberry Sauce:

While the cake is blistering, make the strawberry sauce: In a blender or food processor, combine 16 oz strawberries and one/iv cup carbohydrate (or add saccharide to taste) and blend until pureed.

*To measure flour correctly: spoon flour into dry ingredients measuring cup and scrape off the pinnacle with a directly edge.

Nutrition Facts

Easy Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Sauce

Amount Per Serving

Calories 368 Calories from Fat 144

% Daily Value*

Fat 16g 25%

Saturated Fatty 4g 25%

Cholesterol 44mg 15%

Sodium 91mg four%

Potassium 293mg 8%

Carbohydrates 51g 17%

Cobweb 2g viii%

Saccharide 29g 32%

Protein 4g viii%

Vitamin A 195IU 4%

Vitamin C 46.9mg 57%

Calcium 90mg 9%

Iron 1.8mg 10%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie nutrition.

Natasha Kravchuk

Welcome to my kitchen! I am Natasha, the blogger behind Natasha's Kitchen (since 2009). My husband and I run this web log together and share but our best, family approved and tested recipes with Y'all. Thanks for stopping by! Nosotros are then happy you're here.