Strawberry Tallcake Recipe
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Ingredients
- Filling
- 4 cups quartered strawberries (I used a little more)
- 6 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 1 tablespoon finely shredded lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 cups heavy cream (I used a little more)
- Cake- Best Butter Cake (recipe follows)
- 6 ounces good quality strawberry jam
- To make filling- Combine strawberries, 2 tablespoons sugar, the zest and lemon juice. Let sit 10 minutes. In medium bowl, mix whipping cream and 4 remaining tablespoons sugar until firm and stiff peaks form.
- Best Butter Cake
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- About 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2/3 cups milk
Directions
- To make filling- Combine strawberries, 2 tablespoons sugar, the zest and lemon juice. Let sit 10 minutes. In medium bowl, mix whipping cream and 4 remaining tablespoons sugar until firm and stiff peaks form.
- Preheat oven to 350. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Using a stand mixer, beat sugar and 1/2 cup butter till creamy. Crack eggs into a bowl (DO NOT BEAT) and add vanilla. Add eggs and vanilla to mix, scraping down bowl as needed. Beat in flour and milk, alternating and ending with flour mixture.
- Butter and flour 2 eight inch round cake pans. Divide batter evenly. Bake approximately 20-25 minutes. Cool cakes in pan 5 minutes, and then invert and cool on wire racks at least 40 minutes.
- Assemble cake
- Using a serrated knife, slice both layers in 1/2.
- *NOTE* This is easier if you slightly freeze your layers, and if NOT freezing, use a sharp wire to cut layers, not a knife.
- Set rounded tops aside to use as middle layers. Place a dollop of whipped cream onto the plate to start with. This will hold your cake in place. Place 1 layer of cake on plate, cut side up. Spread with about 3 tablespoons jam. sprinkle with about 1/4 of the cut berries mixture and 1/4 of the whipped cream mixture. Repeat with second and third layers.
- Place final layer on top of cake, cut side down. Mound the remaining whipped cream in the center and spread to about one inch from edges. Sprinkle with remaining strawberries.
- *NOTE* This is NOT a neat cake...but it has the most wonderful flavor and a quaint, country, homemade look about it! It tastes like it might have liquor in it, but it doesn't. It was perfect for a BBQ.
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