Strawberry buttercream, puffy matnakash is simple, but takes a few key steps to get right. So you just got an air fryer? Here’s how to bake with it. You finally got a sourdough starter.

Baker and blogger PJ Hamel will show you just how wonderfully stress-free sourdough baking can be. 2023 King Arthur Baking Company, Inc. Strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream made from fresh strawberries! Strawberry cake made with fresh strawberries and no Jell-O? Yes, it’s possible and it’s delicious! If you’ve been to Pinterest lately, you will have approximately one TRILLION recipes for strawberry cake. I tried a few from some big-name blogs that I thought would for sure delivery and boy was I disappointed.

Most recipes contained either Jell-O for the strawberry flavor or the use of a boxed mix. I just wanted an easy scratch recipe made with real strawberries! Is that not too much to ask? Now I am definitely not the best baker in the world but I do enjoy a challenge so I set myself up to see if I could make a really good strawberry cake.

I had to use real strawberries and the flavor had to taste like real strawberries in the cake alone. Can you make a fresh strawberry cake without Jell-O? I love me some Jell-O but not in my cakes. Gelatin is not something I would think to add to my cake to make the texture light in fluffy, more like gummy and dense. I think the worst thing about a strawberry cake made with Jell-O is that it tastes like fake strawberries.