Strawberry Cake Filling

With the season of strawberries around, strawberry cake filling is one of the most exotic ways to delight the taste buds! Imagine a normal cake filled with yummy strawberries and strawberry sauce! Any cake can be added with strawberry filling, but the taste of strawberry will be brought out if you add the strawberry filling to non-flavored cakes like simple yellow cake recipes or white cakes, etc. It is entirely your wish, if you like to eat chocolates and strawberries together.

Strawberry Cake Filling Recipes

Recipe #1
Ingredients

• 2 cups hulled strawberries, crushed
• 3 tbsp boiling water
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 tbsp cold water
• 1 tbsp unflavored gelatin
• ½ cup whipping cream

Process

Add sugar to the hulled strawberries and set them aside. In cold water soften the gelatin and once it is softened, add boiling water and stir until the gelatin dissolves. Add the dissolved gelatin mixture to strawberries and let cool. Now whip the cream, until its stiff. When the strawberry mixture is of syrup thickness, add the whipped cream to it. Refrigerate until it sets.

Recipe #2
Ingredients

• 1½ tsp fresh lemon juice
• 2 pints ripe strawberries, hulled, sliced in ½ if large
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp honey
• 2 tbsp maple syrup

Process

Make a puree of half of the strawberries in a food processor. While blending, add honey, lemon juice, maple and vanilla; until it forms a smooth sauce. Now add the remaining strawberries and crush until chopped, do not make it a liquid.

Recipe #3
Ingredients

• 1 lg. angel food cake
• 1 tsp almond flavoring
• 1 (8 oz.) container whipped cream
• 1 can milk
• ⅓ c. lemon juice
• 1 (10 oz.) pkg. frozen strawberries, thawed and undrained

Process

First cut 1 inch slice of the angel food cake. Reserve it. Make a tunnel, by scooping out the center. Leave 1 inch at the bottom of the cake. The center cake which you had removed, cut that into pieces. Except strawberries, mix all the other ingredients and reserve 1½ cup. Add the cake pieces to the whip mixture and fold in strawberries. Now fill the tunnel with cake and whip mixture. Replace the top layer which you had removed. Cover the cake with reserved whip mixture. Refrigerate for chilling. When chilled, decorate with fresh sliced strawberries and almond slices (if wanted).

Recipe #4
Ingredients

• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• 3 tbsp cornstarch
• 2 ½ - 3 cups strawberries (fresh or frozen, if using frozen thaw and drain)

Process

Take a large sauce pan and mix all the ingredients. Cook until the mixture thickens, over medium heat. Let it cool completely. You can make it whenever you want, and that too in just a couple of minutes!

If you want, you can also add any of your favorite flavors to it, but make sure that the yummy taste of strawberry is not lost.