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[rootofnewt]

I want to make a strawberry cake. All the recipes I keep running across, however, call for strawberry gelatin (which I can replace with Strawberry Superfruits or strawberry juice + agar) and white cake mix (I can't replace that as easily, as all the commercial mixes contain soy).

I don't want to experiment, as cake making is more chemistry than cooking. I don't want to go buy strawberries and end up with an inedible sludgey or inedible dry mess.

Does anyone have any *truly* homemade recipes that don't rely on package mixes?

If I can find kosher for passover pudding, I can make this one.
Just how much is the average "punnet"? pint? quart? quarter bushel? Ah, approximately 20 ounces, so a Guinness pint. ;)

h, or i can be sneaky and use the google cache for this one.

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[klwalton.livejournal.com]

If I were playing around with making a strawberry cake, I'd find a recipe for a standard white cake and replace the water with strawberry puree - maybe a little more strawberry puree than the measure for the water it's replacing (gods, did that sentence make sense? meh)

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

you might want to try this one (http://www.texascooking.com/features/may99redvelvet.htm) and substitute pureed strawberries for the food dye + vinegar + buttermilk, and I don't think leaving out the cocoa would affect the texture much, or you could sub a little more cake flour if you are uncertain. From previous experience with making red velvet cake, use Silk flour if you can, I know use it in all cakes I make from scratch. I quite often use my red velvet recipe and play with the ingredients in substitutions to make different cakes, it actually adapts really well. I can't find my recipe I use, but this one is the closest I could find.

I made my own wedding cake because I wanted red velvet, baked about 4 of them expirementally until I managed to get what I wanted (I was using big heart shaped pans to make a multi layer cake. Cream cheese frosting in white, peach and yellow. It wound up being magnificent! One of my few baking accomplishments. I can cook lots of stuff, but baking is usually my bane!)


damn, now I'm going to have to make a red velvet cake, I'm craving one.