Strawberry Cream Cake | Fourth Of July Dessert | Slow | Entertaining

If you lot desire impress only about people, brand this cake.  This cake is "ooh-ed as well as aah-ed" past times everyone that sees it.

Smoke as well as Mirrors, folks.  Here's the thing... it is a boxed cake mix amongst whipped cream as well as strawberries.  Does it acquire whatever easier?  As I learned every bit a caterer, presentation goes a long way.

For your quaternary of July Party, position this at the centre of only about store-bought pies, piles of brownies as well as cupcakes as well as you'll convey a dessert buffet that is photograph worthy.

I've created a Strawberry Cream Cake label for you lot to impress to brand your creation await extra special.  If you lot excogitation to brand other desserts, only impress the blank labels as well as write inward (or type in) the mention of your dessert.

To impress the "Strawberry Cream...
Cake" sign or blank label, click on the icon to enlarge.  Right click on the icon as well as "Save As". 

Strawberry Cream Cake

1 White Cake (from a box)
This is a modest 6-inch cake - I made the residue of the batter into cupcakes.  
four cups of Whipped Cream (recipe below)
1 pint of Real Strawberries

Me, at the historic catamenia of ii (I think. Right, Mom?) amongst my eyes as well as fingers gear upwards
on my Strawberry Shortcake (the cartoon character) birthday cake.

Real Strawberries.

I owe an apology to all of my clients, friends as well as identify unit of measurement : For the final 20+ years I convey been serving you lot large, 'beautiful' store-bought, commercially grown strawberries.  I'm sorry.  I should convey known better!

When I was young, I adored strawberries (see photograph at right...).  We had our really ain strawberry spell inward the backyard (I intend it was fifty-fifty planted inward a tracker tire - how 80's is that!).  Little did I know that inward the coming years, I would forget how amazing these ripe picayune gems were as well as I would hold upwards falsely swooned past times the giant season-less strawberries institute at the grocery store.  I've discovered that existent strawberries - tiny picayune strawberries that truly ripen on the vine (vs. inward a truck/box) are yet hold upwards as well as good inward Concord, Ma.  Every orbit farm has "Pick Your Own" signs as well as enough of berries for the taking.

Do yourself a favor - abide by only about existent strawberries.  They are similar naught you've e'er tasted.

Since you lot were five-years-old, at least.

Whipped Cream*

2 cups of heavy whipping cream
1/4 - 1/2 loving cup of sugar

In a mixer fitted amongst the whisk attachment, trounce the cream until it is lite as well as airy.  Add sugar.  Mix well. 

*If you lot are truly curt on fourth dimension (or you lot are my sis as well as truly prefer it...), run cool whip.  It volition stand upwards up to the estrus meliorate than existent whipped cream.

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