Strawberry Sheet Cake Recipe with Whipped Cream Cheese Icing
Cook Time: 1 hourhour10 minutesminutes
Total Time: 1 hourhour10 minutesminutes
Servings: 8slices
Strawberry Sheet Cake is moist, flavorful, and topped with a heavenly whipped cream cheese icing. It's not just insanely delicious, it's gorgeous too!
Ingredients
1Cunsalted butter, softened
2Csugar
2eggs
2TSPfresh lemon juice
1/2TSPvanilla extract
2 1/2Ccake flour
3TBSPstrawberry-flavored gelatin
1/2TSPbaking soda
1/4TSPkosher salt
1Cbuttermilk
2/3Cdiced fresh strawberries
Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe Ingredients:
1package cream cheese, softened
2/3Cconfectioners' sugar, divided
3/4Cdiced fresh strawberries
1 1/2Cheavy cream
2TBSPfresh lemon juice
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy and pale in color – about 3-4 min.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating for a few seconds between eggs.
Beat in vanilla and lemon juice.
In a separate bowl, stir together cake flour, strawberry flavored gelatin, baking soda and salt.
Add flour mixture to creamed butter mixture and alternate with buttermilk, ending with flour mixture.
Blend on low speed until incorporated.
Fold in diced strawberries.
Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan and line with parchment paper.
Allow a couple of inches of parchment paper to drop over the edges of the pan. Spray parchment with cooking spray and pour batter into prepared pan.
Smooth batter evenly.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 min or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pan on a wire rack 30 min.
Using flaps of parchment paper as handles lift cake from pan.
Turn cake over onto wire rack and cool completely.
Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe Directions:
Beat cream cheese and 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar until smooth; add strawberries and beat until just blended.
Beat cream and lemon juice at medium speed until foamy; increase speed to medium-high. Slowly add remaining 1/3 c sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
Using a spatula, fold half of cream mixture into cream cheese mixture; fold in remaining cream mixture.
Spread cream cheese frosting on top and sides of cake.