Christmas Strawberry Cake Recipe

Instructions

Cake Base Instructions:

1. Place bowl with eggs over pot of boiling water, add sugar and vanilla extract
2. Stir until mixture reaches 40°C, remove
3. Heat butter and milk bowl over water bath
4. Whip 7-8 minutes at medium-high speed until fine foam forms
5. Mix 1-2 minutes at lowest speed to stabilize
6. Add some batter to butter-milk mixture, combine
7. Mix with main batter, pour into 18cm pan
8. Bake at 170°C for 38 minutes, cool, trim bottom, cut into three 1.5cm layers at 15cm

Assembly:

9. Slice strawberries; whip cream with sugar until firm
10. Place cake layer on turntable, add sugar syrup and level cream
11. Layer with strawberries and cream, repeat, frost exterior and chill

Roll Cake Layer:

12. Mix egg yolks with sugar and vanilla extract
13. Add oil, milk, sifted cake flour, and food coloring
14. Make meringue by adding sugar to egg whites in two stages
15. Fold half meringue into yolk mixture, then combine all
16. Pour into pan, bake at 165°C for 15 minutes, cool upside down
17. Trim edges, cut height 5mm taller than cake
18. Wrap around cake, top with strawberries and pipe cream decoration