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OT - Let them eat cake!

The wife decided she wanted a strawberry cake so I made one using a recipe from my go-to place for all things baking. 







Well this cake has one major flaw for a woman who wants strawberry cake today. It goes in the refrigerator overnight after the icing soaks through it. This one will go to my in-laws for dinner tomorrow. 

I needed another strawberry cake recipe that was a little different than the other cake. King Arthur to the rescue again. 






Thanks for looking. 

Comments

  • Battleborn
    Battleborn Posts: 3,539
    Strawberry cake in my favorite. I usually get the Berry Crocker. Yours looks much better. 
    Las Vegas, NV


  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,068
    Thank you for your ideas and pictures! Guess my mind is and always will harken back to my childhood some 60 and 70 years ago in IA and MO of homegrown strawberry plants sprouted up through the straw to protect them. Then the shortcake was always made from inexpensive Bisquick.   But YOURS LOOKS TERRIFIC!
  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 34,080
    Your SWMBO is fortunate beyond words for your do-over.  Both look great. 
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 18,943
    Yes, please. I love strawberry cake. 

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
  • StillH2OEgger
    StillH2OEgger Posts: 3,839
    I wasn't hungry until I came here. That looks so good!
    Stillwater, MN
  • Dyal_SC
    Dyal_SC Posts: 6,286
    Great lookin cake and countertops! (I’ve got the same color countertops) 
  • Stormbringer
    Stormbringer Posts: 2,253
    That's an amazing looking cake, nice one. 
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  • johnmitchell
    johnmitchell Posts: 6,785
    Fantastic work Mike!!
    Greensboro North Carolina
    When in doubt Accelerate....
  • ColbyLang
    ColbyLang Posts: 3,874
    Wow, nice looking cakes. Strawberry cake with some sort of cream cheese style frosting. I can eat the entire thing
  • That almost makes me want to bake. Looks delicious!
    South of Columbus, Ohio.


  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,081
    Yep.  I'd hit both of those.  Hard.  Well done.

    XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle

    San Antonio, TX

  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,265
    The cakes look amazing. Fresh strawberries and corn really used to signal summer. Now they're available year round like a lot of things are and I think that association is fading.  Not good or bad, just different.
    Love you bro!
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,537
    Legume said:
    The cakes look amazing. Fresh strawberries and corn really used to signal summer. Now they're available year round like a lot of things are and I think that association is fading.  Not good or bad, just different.

    strawberries from the store are never as sweet or ripened as those picked fresh off the plant. they have come along way with corn but those buying locally still have their favorite farms to go to. still hard to beat corn picked the day you cook it
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 12,249
    ^^^ we vac sealed and froze local corn (cooked and shaved off the cornhub) last summer, still way better than store bought ones.
    canuckland
  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 18,144
    edited February 26
    I can report back that the first cake is off the chain. No pics were taken to avoid being heckled by my FIL. 

    Definitely give that recipe a go if you like strawberry cake. 

    Woooo!
  • kl8ton
    kl8ton Posts: 5,795


    Well this cake has one major flaw for a woman who wants strawberry cake today. It goes in the refrigerator overnight 
    I feel like this happens to me far to frequently.  I don't read the recipe all the way through and then out of nowhere: "place in cool dry place for 24-48 hours." 

    Great looking groceries right there if I can steal Matt's tagline!


    Large, Medium, MiniMax, 36" Blackstone
    Grand Rapids MI
  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,171
    I’ll have A & B please. 
    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

    Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 18,943
    I can report back that the first cake is off the chain. No pics were taken to avoid being heckled by my FIL. 

    Definitely give that recipe a go if you like strawberry cake. 

    Woooo!
    Adding this to the list of things to bake. The cinnamon roll recipe link you posted a while ago was really good. 

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.