Sponge Cake With Strawberry Frosting

Today is our 17^th wedding Anniversary, how fast the years passed.  First I planned to make an ice cream cake but unfortunately forgot to take ice cream pack from the supermarket. So the plan changed to simple frosted cake. My daughter’s birthday falls in this month so kept that urge of making ice cream cake to this month end.

Ingredients

Strawberry syrup

Strawberry:  200gms

Sugar: 400gms

Cinnamon stick: 1” piece

Strawberry Whip Cream

Whip cream powder: 1 sachet

Milk: ½ cup

Vanilla Essence: ½ tsp

Strawberry Syrup: 5tbsp

Chocolate Whip Cream

Above prepared Whip Cream: ¼ cup

Cocoa Powder: 3tbsp

Cooking Chocolate: 50gms

Sponge Cake

All Purpose Flour/ Maida: ¾ cup

Sugar: ¾ cup

Butter: 4tbsp

Eggs: 3

Vanilla: 1tsp

Baking Powder: ½ tsp

Salt: a pinch

Butter Icing

Unsalted butter: 25gms

Icing Sugar: ½ cups

Fresh Cream: 2tbsp

Orange color: few drops

Other needed ingredients for decorating

Fresh strawberries

M&m’s chocolate.

 

Method of Preparation

Strawberry Syrup

In a pressure cooker add strawberry, sugar, cinnamon and 1 ½ cups water.

Pressure cook for 3 whistles and switch off the flame.

Let the pressure release and open the lid.

When it is slightly cooled add into the blender and blend to a smooth paste.

Again transfer to the cooker or a pan and keep on flame.

Stir occasionally by putting on a low flame till you get one string consistency syrup.

Strawberry Whip Cream

In a bowl take whip cream powder, cold milk and essence.

With an electric beater beat at high speed to about 4 minutes or till stiff peaks.

Then add in strawberry syrup to it and beat again. Keep chilled.

Orange Butter Icing

Beat butter and sugar till you get smooth consistency.

Then add the fresh cream and orange color and beat again. Keep chilled

Chocolate Whip Cream

In a bowl take ¼ cup prepared whip cream, melted cooking chocolate and cocoa powder. Beat it for 2 minutes more and keep chilled (you can take the whip cream for this before adding the strawberry syrup or can take after adding also)

Sponge Cake

Beat butter and eggs till it becomes fluffy.

Add in sugar to it and beat well again.

Then add baking powder and vanilla essence. Beat well again

Then add in flour and salt to it and beat well to get a lump less batter.

Add this into a greased baking tray.

Pre heat the oven and bake to about 20-25 minute at 180⁰C or till cake test is done.

Remove the cake and let it cool completely on a wire rack.

For arranging and decorating

I made 1 cake in a flower/swirl pan and 1 in a round pan.

Cut each cake into 2 pieces. So that you will get 4 cake pieces.

From that take 1 cake piece and cut heart shape with a cookie cutter. Keep this aside.

Take the other 3 cake pieces. Cut pieces into round shape, accordingly so that when you stack the cake you get in 3 steps.

Take a square cardboard piece, cover it with aluminum foil.

Apply some strawberry syrup and whip cream on the board where you are going to place the cake piece so that the cake sticks on to the board.

Place the big cake piece on it.

Apply strawberry syrup and whip cream on the 2^nd cake piece and place it on the 1^st cake.

Repeat the same on the third piece too.

Apply the strawberry whip cream all over the cake evenly.

Then decorate the cake with chocolate icing and butter icing, strawberry and M&M’s chocolate as per your desire. (I wanted to take clicks while decorating too, but my son was around me while i was doing, if i go for click may be he will grab the cake and run :) )

After decorating the cake I dipped the 3 heart cake pieces in strawberry syrup and placed on top of the cake.

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