So after you make your loved one a Romantic Steak Dinner, you of course make dessert!!  You take a Moist Strawberry Cake with Cream Cheese Icing and Fresh Strawberries and prepare it for your significant other for Valentines Day and watch the melt down!  This cake will surely hit the Valentine Day jackpot!  First let’s talk about the thought, because really the thought does count, so the fact that you are taking your precious time to bake something sweet for your sweetie already put you ahead of the game.  But when they take a bite of this strawberry love feast, you will be let’s just say on the good side of things for a long time!  And come on, it starts with a boxed cake mix, the rest is easy ~ certainly worth the effort for your honey, right?!!?!

OH YEAH BABY!  

SO SIMPLE TO MAKE ~ BUT SO GOOD

STRAWBERRY HEAVEN

OH SWEET ICING, HOW I LOVE THEE

FINISHED NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD

STRAWBERRY LOVERS VALENTINE DELIGHT

STRAWBERRY CAKE INGREDIENTS:
1 Box of Strawberry Cake Mix + ingredients listed on back of box
1 2.9 oz. box of strawberry Jello (the powder, do not make the jello)
2 tsp. unsalted butter (to butter the pan)
2 tsp. all-purpose flour (to flour the pan)
Fresh strawberries to garnish top of each slice of cake

STRAWBERRY TOPPING INGREDIENTS:
2 cups Strawberries (cleaned and diced)
1 cup granulated sugar
2 cups water
1 tbsp. corn starch + 2 tbsp. water (mixed together)

CREAM CHEESE ICING:
1 stick unsalted butter
1 8 oz. package cream cheese
2 cups confectioner (powdered) sugar
2 tsp. vanilla extract

READY, SET GO:

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. LET’S MAKE THE STRAWBERRY TOPPING ~ Add diced strawberries to boiling water, turn heat to medium and allow to cook 2-4 minutes
3. Add sugar and corn starch mixture and stir – allow to cook an additional 3-4 minutes then set aside
4. LET’S MAKE THE CAKE ~ Whisk together ingredients from box instructions + plus add powder from strawberry jello
5. Lightly butter and flour 13×9 inch rectangle baking pan and add cake mixture, bake for 34 – 40 minutes
6. LET’S MAKE THE CREAM CHEESE ICING ~ While cake is baking add butter, cream cheese, confectioner sugar, and vanilla to mixer and mix until smooth and set aside
7. When cake is done remove from oven and while hot poke holes all over top of cake with a fork, then pour the Strawberry Topping all over the cake, set aside and allow to completely cool
8. Once the cake is completely cooled, spread cream cheese icing on top
9. Add fresh strawberries to top of each slice, ENJOY, ENJOY, ENJOY.

Utokia ~
Sizzle Sizzle Baby