Page 68 - Valetine Cake - Cookie - Candy Cookbook: Best Valentines Day Cookbook

Beat flour, white sugar, baking powder, and salt into strawberry
mixture on Low; add butter and continue beating on Low until evenly

combined.

Step 5

Stop mixer, scrape sides, and beat again for about 30 seconds.

Step 6

Divide batter evenly between the two prepared cake pans.

Step 7

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center
of each cake comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool the cakes in
the pans for about 10 minutes; transfer to wire racks to completely

cool, about 30 minutes.

Step 8

Beat cream cheese and butter together in a medium bowl until
smooth. Gradually beat confectioners' sugar into cream cheese

mixture until creamy and fluffy; stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

Step 9

Spread about 1/2 the frosting on top of 1 cake. Place second cake
on top of frosting layer; spread the remaining frosting on top of
second cake and around sides of both cakes.

Cook's Notes:

To make strawberry puree, put frozen or fresh strawberries into a

blender or food processor and puree.

Be sure to use softened butter, NOT melted. Unsalted or salted
butter will work. When using salted butter, simply reduce the salt in
recipe to 1/2 teaspoon. Also, all-purpose flour works in this recipe,
but cake flour is recommended.

For sheet cake: Grease and flour one 9x13 pan. Bake for 20 minutes
and insert a toothpick in the center of the cake. If it doesn't come out
clean, continue baking in increments of 2 to 3 minutes until the