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- Strawberries and Cream Spectacular
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- 2 1/2 cups (625 ml) sifted cake flour
- 1 2/3 cups (400 ml) sugar
- 4 tsp (20 ml) baking powder
- 1 tsp (5 ml) salt
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) butter
- 1 1/4 cup (300 ml) milk
- 1 tsp (5 ml) lemon extract
- 1/2 tsp (2 ml) vanilla extract
- 5 egg yolks
- 4 cups (1 liter) strawberries
- 2 cups (1/2 liter) heavy cream, whipped with 1/4 cup (50 ml) sugar and
- 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup (175 ml) red current jelly
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- Sift together the cake flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a mixing
- bowl. Add the butter and half the milk. Beat with an electric mixer at
- medium speed for two minutes, scraping the bowl occasionally. Add the
- remaining milk, the lemon extract, the vanilla extract and the egg yolks.
- Beat with the electric mixer for another two minutes.
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- Pour the batter into two buttered layer-cake pans that have been lined with
- parchment paper. Bake in a preheated 350F oven (180 C) for 30 minutes, or
- until a cake tester inserted in the centers of the layers comes out clean.
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- While the cake is cooling, wash and hull the strawberries. Chop enough
- strawberries to make one cup (1/4 liter); reserve the remaining berries.
- Fold the chopped strawberries into one cup (1/4 liter) of the whipped
- cream. Place one cake layer, top side down, on a serving plate. Spread
- it with the strawberry-cream filling. Top with the second cake layer, top
- side up (I'd put the bottom side up myself, in order to make a flat surface).
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- Slice the reserved strawberries lengthwise. Arrange the sliced straberries
- on top of the cake, starting at the outer edge and placing the slices with
- their pointed ends toward the edge of the cake. After the first circle of
- berries is complete, continue placing the berries in this manner until the
- top is covered. Refrigerate the cake for 10 minutes.
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- Melt the red currant jelly in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring
- constantly. Carefully spoon or brush the hot jelly over the strawberries.
- Spread some of the remaining whipped cream around the sides of the cake.
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- Spoon the rest of the whipped cream into a pastry bag fitted with a No. 190
- drop flower tube. Pipe rosettes between the strawberry points around the
- rim of the cake. Then change to a No. 24 star tube and fill in the spaces.
- Finally, change to a No. 71 leaf tube, and pipe a border around the bottom
- edge of the cake.
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- If you do not wish to decorate the cake with decorating tips, spoon the
- remaining cream in small puffs on the top of the cake between the
- strawberries. Refrigerate the cake until time to serve it.
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- Strawberry and Cream Cake
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- 2.5 cups cake flour 1 tsp. salt
- 1.5 cups sugar 1.25 cups whipping cream
- 2 tsp. baking powder 4 eggs
- 1.5 tsp. vanilla
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- Preheat oven to 350. Grease two 9-by-1.5-inch layer cake pans; dust
- lightly with flour; tap out any excess. Measure flour, sugar, baking
- powder, and salt into a sifter; reserve. Beat cream in a medium-size
- bowl until stiff; reserve. Beat eggs in a small bowl until very thick
- and light; beat in vanilla; fold in reserved whipped cream.
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- Sift dry ingredients over cream mixture; gently fold in until batter is
- smooth. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or
- until center springs back when lightly pressed with fingertip. Cool
- layers in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes; loosen edges with a knife,
- turn out onto wire racks, and cool completely. Put layers together with
- strawberry butter-cream frosting; then frost top and side with
- remainder. Garnish with strawberries.
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- Strawberry Butter-cream Frosting:
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- 1 pint strawberries 1 lb. confectioners' sugar
- .5 cup butter
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- Mash enough strawberries to measure .5 cup. Beat butter in a medium bowl
- until soft. Beat in mashed strawberries. Add confectioners' sugar
- slowly, beating until smooth.
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