Why does the frosting include cream cheese?

The cream cheese in the strawberry frosting adds the most beautifully tangy and most deeply creamy quality that contrasts most perfectly with the zippy and most intensely lime-flavored cake layers beneath. A conventional strawberry buttercream without cream cheese is sweeter and less nuanced. The cream cheese creates the most completely balanced and most sophisticated frosting that makes this cake extraordinary rather than merely good.

Can I use a different food coloring or skip it?

The green food coloring is purely for the most beautiful and most dramatically unexpected visual effect of the vibrant green cake layers. It adds no flavor whatsoever and can be omitted entirely for a more natural pale yellow-green lime cake. The flavor will be completely identical whether the food coloring is included or not.

Can I use fresh strawberries instead of frozen sweetened strawberries in syrup?

For the most intensely flavored and most vibrantly colored strawberry cream cheese frosting, frozen sweetened strawberries in syrup are the most specifically recommended because the syrup concentrates and preserves the most deep strawberry flavor and the most beautiful natural pink color. Fresh strawberries pureed and mixed with a tablespoon of sugar and allowed to macerate for 20 minutes make a reasonable substitute.

Strawberry Limeade Cake Easy Moist Lime Strawberry Frosting Recipe

Name: Strawberry Limeade Cake The Most Easy Moist Lime Layer Cake Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting You Will Bake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: PT-497454H26M17S
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups Cake Flour; 2 1/2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 stick 1/2 cup Salted Butter; 2 tbsp Fresh Lime Zest; 1 1/2 cups Granulated Sugar; 3 large Eggs; 3 large Egg Yolks; 1/2 cup Whole Milk; 1/2 cup Fresh Lime Juice; 2 to 4 drops Green Food Coloring; 3/4 cup 12 tbsp Salted Butter room temperature for frosting; 4 oz Cream Cheese softened; 1/2 cup Frozen Sweetened Strawberries in Syrup thawed and pureed; 5 to 6 cups Powdered Sugar

Description

The most stunning Strawberry Limeade Cake made by beating 1 stick salted butter 1 1/2 cups sugar and 2 tbsp lime zest on medium 2 minutes adding 3 eggs and 3 yolks one at a time then fresh lime juice alternating 2 1/2 cups cake flour and baking powder with 1/2 cup milk stirring in 2 to 4 drops green food coloring pouring into two buttered floured 8-inch pans and baking at 350°F for 25 minutes until tops spring back cooling completely then frosting with strawberry cream cheese frosting of room temperature butter softened cream cheese thawed pureed sweetened strawberries and 5 to 6 cups powdered sugar beaten smooth. A completely extraordinary summer lime strawberry layer cake recipe.

Ingredients

Scale

2 1/2 cups Cake Flour

2 1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1 stick 1/2 cup Salted Butter

2 tbsp Fresh Lime Zest

1 1/2 cups Granulated Sugar

3 large Eggs

3 large Egg Yolks

1/2 cup Whole Milk

1/2 cup Fresh Lime Juice

2 to 4 drops Green Food Coloring

3/4 cup 12 tbsp Salted Butter room temperature for frosting

4 oz Cream Cheese softened

1/2 cup Frozen Sweetened Strawberries in Syrup thawed and pureed

5 to 6 cups Powdered Sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour two 8-inch round pans.

2. Combine cake flour and baking powder in medium bowl. Set aside.

3. Beat butter, sugar, and lime zest on medium 2 minutes until light and fluffy.

4. Add eggs and egg yolks one at a time beating and scraping after each. Add lime juice. Mix until smooth.

5. Alternate flour mixture and milk starting and ending with flour. Stir in green food coloring. Stir from bottom.

6. Pour evenly into prepared pans.

7. Bake 25 minutes until tops spring back when touched.

8. Cool in pans 7 minutes. Remove to wire racks. Cool completely.

9. For frosting: beat room temperature butter and softened cream cheese until smooth. Add pureed strawberries on low until smooth.

10. Add 5 cups powdered sugar. Beat low until combined. Increase high 1 minute.

11. If too thin add additional cup powdered sugar.

12. Level cooled cakes with serrated knife. Frost and assemble.

13. Refrigerate.

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Category: Dessert, Cake, Summer
Method: Baking
Cuisine: American

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1 slice
Calories: 744
Sugar: 68g
Sodium: 285mg
Fat: 32g
Saturated Fat: 19g
Unsaturated Fat: 11g
Trans Fat: 1g
Carbohydrates: 108g
Fiber: 1g
Protein: 6g
Cholesterol: 175mg

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