Strawberry Shortcake Cake Recipe

Photo: The Candid Appetite

This Strawberry Shortcake Cake recipe is an utter delight. Light, fluffy layers of sponge cake brushed with a delicious rum-spiked syrup, lashings of thick cream, crunchy sliced almonds and as many strawberries as you can get your hands on, make this a truly great cake.

This is one very fancy Strawberry Shortcake.

With great strawberries – and I mean really great strawberries, this Strawberry Shortcake Cake is absolute perfection. Not to mention splendid to look at.

I can’t help but remember those Strawberry Shortcake dolls of my childhood. I wonder if they’re still around.

The cake master behind this delicious Strawberry Shortcake Cake recipe is The Candid Appetite.

Strawberry Shortcake Cake Recipe

 

Ingredients

For the sponge cake:

• 6 eggs
• 1 cup white sugar
• ¼ cup water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup cake flour
• ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 pints fresh strawberries, rinsed, stemmed and sliced, reserving 9 whole berries for the top
• 2 cups sliced almonds

For the Rum Simple Syrup:

• 1 cup water
• 1 cup sugar
• ¼ cup rum

For the Whipped Cream:

• 3 cups very cold heavy cream
• ½ cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. For the full recipe go here: Strawberry Shortcake Cake.

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