A delightful strawberry sheet cake with fresh strawberries and cream cheese frosting that's a crowd-pleaser at a bridal shower, spring picnic, or any other occasion.
Prep Time30 minutesmins
Cook Time40 minutesmins
Total Time1 hourhr10 minutesmins
Servings: 12servings
Calories: 613kcal
Author: Lucy Brewer
Ingredients
Cake
1cupunsalted butter, softened
2cupsgranulated sugar
2largeeggs
2teaspoonsfresh lemon juice
1teaspoonvanilla extract
2 ½cupscake flour
½teaspoonbaking soda
¼teaspoontable salt
1teaspoonbaking powder
1cupfull-fat buttermilk
3-4dropsred food coloring (optional)
⅔cupchopped fresh strawberries
Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
1stickunsalted butter, slightly softened
18-ouncepackage Philadelphia cream cheese - not low-fat, slightly softened
¼cupvegetable shortening
½tablespoonpure vanilla extract
1 ½tablespoonlemon juice
3cupssifted confectioner's sugar
¼teaspoonsalt
½cupchopped fresh strawberries
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350.
Lightly grease 9 x 13-inch baking pan or dish and line with parchment paper so that 2-3 inches extend over sides. Lightly spray the parchment paper.
Beat butter at medium speed until creamy. Gradually add sugar and beat 5-7 minutes until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and mix just until blended. Mix in lemon juice, vanilla, and red food coloring if using.
Whisk together flour, soda, salt, and baking powder. Add flour mixture to butter alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour, beating on low speed just until blended.
Stir in strawberries. Spread batter evenly into prepared pan or dish.
Bake 30-40 minutes, until tester inserted in middle comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack for thirty minutes, then lift cake from pan using parchment paper sides and invert onto platter. Gently remove parchment paper and allow cake to cool completely before frosting.
Frosting
Cream butter, cream cheese, shortening, salt, and vanilla. Add lemon juice. Gradually add confectioner's sugar. Gently stir in the chopped strawberries.
If frosting is too runny, place it in the refrigerator for half an hour.