Strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream made from fresh strawberries! Strawberry cake made with fresh strawberries and no Jell-O? Yes, it’s possible and it’s delicious! If you’ve been to Pinterest lately, you will have approximately one Buttercream frosting recipe for cake recipes for strawberry cake.
I tried a few from some big-name blogs that I thought would for sure delivery and boy was I disappointed. Most recipes contained either Jell-O for the strawberry flavor or the use of a boxed mix. I just wanted an easy scratch recipe made with real strawberries! Is that not too much to ask? Now I am definitely not the best baker in the world but I do enjoy a challenge so I set myself up to see if I could make a really good strawberry cake.
I had to use real strawberries and the flavor had to taste like real strawberries in the cake alone. Can you make a fresh strawberry cake without Jell-O? I love me some Jell-O but not in my cakes. Gelatin is not something I would think to add to my cake to make the texture light in fluffy, more like gummy and dense. I think the worst thing about a strawberry cake made with Jell-O is that it tastes like fake strawberries. Pretty tasty in jolly ranchers but not so much in my cake.
