Baking and eating go hand in hand. When you bake, you should feel the joy. But sometimes, we all go out of track. You might be thinking what difference can you make again. But everything in baking is all about flavors. What is this time, the flavor comes from a fruit?
Let’s take a strawberry this time. But not the flavored cream. What if the cake is made out of original fruit? Is it possible? Will it take more time than normal baking?
All of these questions of yours will be answered in this blog. All you need to do is just scroll through the blog and keep reading through it!
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What is a Sheet Cake?
What we always refer to as a cake has different shapes and names. But not everyone is aware of it. If you are someone who loves baking and has been doing it for a long time will be aware of a sheet cake.
But for those who are new at the beginning, a Sheet Cake is a normal-sized rectangular cake. No layers over layers nor any extra art over the cake.
The easiest cake to bake is a sheet cake for a baker.
Different recipes for Strawberry Sheet Cake
You can make many different recipes. All the ingredients and procedures are close to each other. You just need to follow the recipes and you can bake the strawberry sheet cake that you want to bake.
Here are the Strawberry Sheet Cakes that you can bake:
- Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
- Roasted Strawberry Sheet Cake
Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
Here is what you should know about baking these sheet cakes. Follow the recipe as given forward and you will be able to catch up with it.
Ingredients required to make the batter of the recipe
- Fresh Juicy Strawberries
- Cornflour
- Flour
- Milk
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Vanilla Essence
- Almonds
- Ground Sugar
- Eggs
Baking Procedure of the Recipe
- In the beginning of the recipe, make sure that you have put the oven at a temperature of 350 F. This is to ensure that your oven is well-prepared before you put in your batter for baking inside.
- Wash off the strawberries and grind them till they have a smooth texture
- Add in flour and a tablespoon of cornflour.
- Pour a little go-to milk into the mixture
- Along with it, a little pinch of baking powder as well as baking soda. And then, two to three droplets of Vanilla Essence.
- Add in some eggs or you can neglect it as well if you want an eggless cake.
- Lastly, add in the sugar that you have ground in the first place.
- If you want a nutty taste, you can almonds as well.
- Next, stir the entire mixture together. Take the help of an electric whisk to stir the mixture completely. The mixture should be a soft, smooth, and thick texture.
- Now prepare the parchment sheet and pour the batter in. Ensure that the layer above is moved and has no holes in it.
- Put it in the oven and let it bake.
- After 35 to 40 minutes, check the cake and to know if it is baked or not, get the help of a toothpick.
- Now let the cake cool down.
Procedure to make the frosting of the cake
Ingredients required for the frosting of the cake
- Butter
- Cream
- Fresh Strawberries
- Ground Sugar
Making the frosting of the Cake
- While your cake is being prepared, you can go for the frosting.
- Make a batter out of all the ingredients that you have gathered up. Put in together butter, cream and grinded strawberries and sugar. Mix it together and perfectly blend it together.
- Now refrigerate the blended paste for an hour.
Preparation of the Cake
- Firstly, when the cake is entirely cooled down, take the cake in some other big container.
- Now the frosting is also cooled down. You can put on the layer of frosting over the cake and prepare it accordingly. The frosting put over the cake should be in the proper layer.
- You can put some chocolate chips or chocolate sprinkles over the cake to make it look attractive.
This is how the cake is completely done. And now, you can cut the cake into pieces and enjoy it with your family.
Roasted Strawberry Sheet Cake
To bake this recipe, follow the given recipe now:
Ingredients needed to make this recipe
- Fresh Strawberries
- Cornflour
- Flour
- Milk
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Vegetable Oil
- Vanilla Essence
- Butter
- Eggs
- Ground Sugar
Recipe for Preparing the Roasted Strawberry Sheet Cake
- Ensure that you have put your oven for pre-heating. The temperature should be around 350 F in order to prepare your cake.
- Take a saucepan and turn on the heat on a high flame.
- Add in the vegetable oil
- Once the oil is heated, add on the two cut halves of the strawberries as many as you want.
- Let the strawberry gets a little brownish in color, turn it upside down, and do the same.
- Once down, cool it down and soak the oil out of the strawberries.
- Now, start preparing for the batter
- In a big bowl, add all-purpose flour, cornflour, eggs, butter, and all the other ingredients mentioned above in the list.
- Whisk them all together until a smooth texture is achieved.
- Add them to the baking pan.
- Put the parchment paper.
- Add a small layer of the batter.
- Then, put some of the roasted strawberries over it.
- Over the roasted strawberries add the rest of the batter.
- Now, put the batter inside the oven.
- Once done, add it to the oven. After 35 or 40 minutes, you will see the cake looks almost prepared. To check on it, you can use a toothpick.
Once the cake is baked, you can enjoy your Roasted Strawberry Sheet Cake with your family. Cut it in halves and enjoy it with chocolate syrup or strawberry syrup.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Can real strawberries be added to a Strawberry Sheet Cake?
All this time, it has been seen that there is a flavor of the fruit present in the cake. That is, the batter has only the cream flavor of the fruit. No one really adds on to the fruit in the cake.
But it is actually possible to add fruits to the cake. Give the real fruit taste that cake lovers want in their cake. The recipe does not change much in case you are adding real strawberries. Instead, the fruit taste is more enhanced when taken a bite off.
How long does it take to prepare the batter for the Strawberry Sheet cake?
Once you will start preparing the cake, it does not take much time. You just need to have all the ingredients prepared for the cake. And just need to know the ingredients needed to be added one by one in order to prepare the batter.
Though, the preparation of the batter of the cake just takes around 15 to 20 minutes. But once the batter is prepared, you will need to ensure that the texture of the batter is thick and smooth in texture. Then only, the cake will come out to be fluffy from the oven.
How long does it take to bake the Strawberry Sheet Cake?
While you are preparing the batter for the Strawberry Sheet cake, you need to prepare your oven for the cake to be baked. The oven needs to be at the temperature of 350 F in order to prepare it for the strawberry sheet cake.
And when the batter of the strawberry sheet cake is put in the oven it is only a matter of time. It just takes 40 to 45 minutes to bake the cake.
Final Thoughts
With this, we have come to the end of this blog! You must be thinking it is very difficult to prepare these two recipes. But once you follow it hand-in-hand, it becomes really easy to bake the cake.
Hope you got the information that you were looking for. Let us know if the blog was helpful to you or not. Also, share this blog with those who want to know about Strawberry Sheet Cake!