#STRAWBERRY CRUNCH CAKE ICING FULL#
#STRAWBERRY CRUNCH CAKE ICING PRO#

Use a digital scale to measure all-purpose flour and other dry ingredients. Salt: balances the sweetness and enhances the overall flavor.Eggs: helps with firm structure of the cupcakes.Vegetable Oil: keep the cupcakes moist.Buttermilk: adds fats and fluffy cupcakes and brings tang to the overall flavor.Vanilla Extract: enhances the overall flavor.Baking Powder: the leavening agent to give lift to the cupcakes.Castor Sugar: for sweetness in the cupcakes.All Purpose Flour: the base of strawberry crunch cupcakes.The trapped air expands in the oven resulting in perfect baked treats. Ingredients such as butter, eggs and other dairy ingredients like milk, sour cream, yogurt form an emulsion by trapping air inside the batter.

#STRAWBERRY CRUNCH CAKE ICING PRO#

Pro Tip # 1 - Room Temperature IngredientsĪlways use room temperature ingredients (unless otherwise specified) for baking. These cupcakes are super moist, light and fluffy filled with strawberries.The cream cheese frosting further enhances the strawberry flavor in these cupcakes.

Follow the recipe step-by-step and a simple method to bake these cupcakes.

With few ingredients to bake these little pieces of heaven.

These strawberry crunch cupcakes look very fancy but they are super easy to bake.

These strawberry crunch cupcakes are made from scratch.

These cupcakes are delicious and packed with best strawberry flavor that you can get in cake.

Just imagine recreating that nostalgic memory in a cupcake. If you grew up like me in the 90’s you would remember the famous strawberry shortcake ice cream bars that we all enjoyed in the school cafeteria. Ohh, and did I forget mentioning about the strawberry filling in the cupcakes? I hope you love it as much as I do!Īnd here’s a little behind-the-scenes of how I put together this cake.These strawberry crunch cupcakes are a combination of three things – perfectly moist cupcakes, smooth silky cream cheese frosting and crunchy strawberry topping. It’s a summer cake worthy of your reliving childhood memories. And I love how the two frostings complement each other with different textures and flavors.

#STRAWBERRY CRUNCH CAKE ICING FULL#

The layers of cake are tender and fluffy and full of flavor. I always save any extra fillings to serve alongside the cake. You’ll have some leftovers of this, but don’t throw it away. I love how light and fluffy it is and thought it would pair well with the slightly denser strawberry filling.Īs for the outer layer of crunch (or crack, as some might say), I toasted shortbread cookie crumbs and then mixed in chopped up freeze-dried strawberries. I then made my Strawberry Frosting and threw in some freeze-dried strawberries to give it a little texture and flavor dimension.įor the vanilla frosting, I adapted the vanilla frosting from the Milk Bar Birthday Cake. I immediately felt like soul sisters 😉įor my version, I whipped up a half batch of my vanilla cake (the base of my Funfetti Cake) and a half batch of my Strawberry Cake. Her version of this cake was very similar to what I envisioned for my cake: layers of strawberry and vanilla cake with a yummy strawberry crunch coating. One of the cakes that caught my attention was from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen. I looked at Pinterest to see how often this cake has been made and to my surprise, I only found a few layered cakes similar to what I had in mind. It needed to be the perfect blend of strawberry and vanilla with a little crunch. ) I wanted to make sure, however, that it had all the same flavors as the bar. (Just goes against everything I stand for ). This year, I’m returning to memory lane with my childhood favorite summer treat, the Strawberry Crunch Bar.Īs I thought about turning this yummy treat into a cake, I knew I didn’t want it to have ice cream. I couldn’t help but think back to my childhood with each bite. Last year I did a Watermelon Lime Cake, a Root Beer Float Cake, and a Rainbow Sherbet Cake, to name a few. There’s no way to make that sound enjoyable.Īs I’ve been dreaming of pool days, I’ve been thinking about new summer-inspired cake flavors I want to whip up. We had snow a week ago, you guys! The second week of April! Simply uncalled for, if you ask me 😉 This California girl will never get used to what people call a Utah “spring.” It’s just an extra long winter.

This late winter in Utah has me aching to bypass spring and jump feet first into summer. Inspired by my childhood favorite ice cream bar, this Strawberry Crunch Cake is made up of my go-to strawberry and vanilla cake layers, strawberry crunch filling, whipped vanilla buttercream, and is covered in a shortbread cookie strawberry crunch.

Strawberry crunch cake icing