This straightforward Vegan Strawberry Cake is delightfully candy and made with recent strawberries. Adorned with a pretty-in-pink strawberry icing, it’s the right dessert for Valentine’s Day, summer time, or everytime you’re craving candy and tart strawberries!
‘Wow’ your friends or Valentine with this pinkalicious Vegan Strawberry Cake! It’s gentle and fluffy, similar to my vegan vanilla cake, however made with recent strawberries for a vibrant colour and mouth-watering taste. The vegan strawberry icing takes it excessive!
The most effective half: you received’t discover any chunks of strawberries within the cake or icing. Contemporary strawberries are blended right into a easy puree earlier than they’re folded into the cake batter, and the icing will get its colour and taste from blended freeze-dried strawberries. You get the entire berrylicious flavors with out the work of chopping heaps of berries.
Recipe options
- It’s fairly in pink! This vegan strawberry cake recipe is among the greatest vegan desserts to make for Valentine’s Day (together with my fudgy vegan brownies) or whenever you’re merely craving strawberries.
- The cake and icing are naturally dairy and egg free, however simply as moist, fluffy, and lightweight as a basic strawberry cake.
- Make the cake layers forward of time and retailer them within the fridge or freezer for later!
Substances
Contemporary strawberries – The cake will get its gentle pink colour and strawberry taste from blended recent strawberries. You need to use frozen strawberries if that’s what you have already got at residence, however make sure that to thaw them first.
Milk – Any dairy free milk can be utilized, like oat milk, almond milk, or cashew milk.
Vanilla extract – You want this to assist taste the cake. The notes of vanilla steadiness very properly subsequent to the strawberry puree.
Cake flour – Cake flour is good when baking gentle and delicate truffles as a result of it incorporates little or no protein, thus creating much less gluten within the cake. In case you don’t have cake flour at residence, this selfmade cake flour substitute by Sally’s Baking Dependancy is straightforward to make by sifting all function flour and cornstarch collectively.
Vegan butter – You want vegan butter each for the cake batter and the vegan strawberry frosting. I all the time have nice outcomes with Earth Stability vegan butter.
Freeze-dried strawberries – These give the strawberry icing its pink colour and strawberry taste. Contemporary or frozen strawberries received’t work as properly as a result of they’ll make the icing too watery and never as easy. You must be capable to discover freeze-dried strawberries in lots of well-stocked grocery shops or on-line.
Step-by-step directions
Step 1: Puree the strawberries. Place the strawberries in a blender or meals processor and mix till you’ve a puree.
Step 2: Make the cake batter. Whisk the melted butter, strawberry puree, milk, and vanilla collectively in a big bowl. In one other bowl, whisk the dry elements collectively. Pour the dry combine into the moist and beat collectively till the batter is easy.
Step 3: Bake. Switch the batter to 2 ready cake pans. Bake till a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out clear.
Step 4: Make the icing. Whilst you look ahead to the truffles to chill, pulse the freeze-dried strawberries in a meals processor or blender. Whisk the butter and milk collectively in a bowl, then add the blended strawberries and powdered sugar. Combine till the icing is easy.
Step 5: Ice, slice, and luxuriate in. Embellish the cooled cake layers with the strawberry frosting, then place it within the fridge for later, or slice and serve!
Ideas and FAQs
- Attempt to not overmix the batter! While you pour the dry combine into the moist, solely stir the 2 till they simply come collectively and no dry flour streaks stay.
- I made this cake in two 8-inch spherical cake pans. A ten-inch sq. pan or bundt pan may additionally work, however the baking instances might differ.
- Stop the truffles from sticking by lining the underside of every cake pan with a spherical piece of parchment paper.
- For an additional pink strawberry cake, combine 1 to 2 drops of pink or pink gel meals coloring in with the batter.
- Bear in mind to maintain some recent strawberries on the facet for adornment!
Can I take advantage of all function flour as an alternative?
Sure, however you don’t want as a lot all function flour because it’s heavier than cake flour. For this recipe, solely use 2 cups of all function flour.
Can I take advantage of this recipe for cupcakes?
Completely! Make vegan strawberry cupcakes as an alternative by pouring the cake batter right into a lined cupcake tin and baking for 20 to 25 minutes
Can this cake be made gluten free?
I haven’t examined this recipe with gluten free flour, however you’ll be able to strive changing the cake flour with a high-quality gluten free flour mix.
How do you retailer the baked cake layers?
As soon as the truffles are fully cool, wrap each in plastic and retailer them within the fridge for as much as 5 days. In addition they rather well for round 2 months.
As for the frosted cake, make sure that to maintain it coated and within the fridge to stop it from drying out.
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Vegan Strawberry Cake
This straightforward Vegan Strawberry Cake is delightfully candy and made with recent strawberries. Adorned with a pretty-in-pink strawberry icing, it’s the right dessert for Valentine’s Day, summer time, or everytime you’re craving candy and tart strawberries!
Servings: 10 slices
Substances
- ½ cup vegan butter melted
- 1 ½ cups strawberry puree purchase 2 lbs strawberries, use additional for garnish
- ½ cup milk of alternative I used almond milk
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups cake flour
- 1 ½ cups cane sugar
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
for the icing
- 6 tablespoon vegan butter softened
- 5-6 tablespoon milk of alternative I used almond milk
- 1 cup freeze dried strawberries
- 3 cups powdered sugar
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350° and line two 8” cake pans with parchment rounds.
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Add strawberries to a small blender or meals processor and pulse to create strawberry puree (NOTE: begin by mixing 1 lb. strawberries and improve as wanted. It’ll be someplace round 1.5 lb. complete strawberries to create 1 ½ cups puree).
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In a big mixing bowl, whisk the butter, strawberry puree, milk, and vanilla collectively.
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In a separate bowl, stir the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt collectively.
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Pour the dry elements into the moist and stir with a hand mixer till the batter is easy, however being cautious to not over-mix.
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Divide the batter into the ready cake pans, then bake the cake for 32-37 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clear. Go away the truffles within the pans for 10 minutes, then fastidiously invert them onto a cooling rack. Anticipate the truffles to chill fully earlier than icing them.
for the icing:
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Pulse the freeze-dried strawberries in a meals processor or small blender; put aside.
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Whisk the butter and milk along with a hand or stand mixer, then add within the blended freeze-dried strawberries and powdered sugar; combine till the icing is easy.
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Ice the cake, slice and luxuriate in!
Notes
*Energy are per one slice of cake and are an estimation
Diet
Serving: 1g | Energy: 592kcal | Carbohydrates: 113g | Protein: 4g | Fats: 14g | Saturated Fats: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 4g | Monounsaturated Fats: 5g | Trans Fats: 0.1g | Sodium: 353mg | Potassium: 408mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 83g | Vitamin A: 757IU | Vitamin C: 310mg | Calcium: 87mg | Iron: 6mg
