Lemon Strawberry Cake

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Lemon Strawberry Cake. Soft, lemon cake layers with a strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream frosting. Delicious combination of sweet and tang!

Lemon Strawberry Cake. Soft, lemon cake layers with a strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream frosting. Delicious combination of sweet and tang!

Cake Gifts

Last week my parents came to visit and my mom brought me a delicious strawberry cake with strawberry frosting. Since then, I’ve been thinking a lot about strawberries. I’ve also been thinking about how well strawberries and lemons go together, and how great they are together in cakes.

Lemon Strawberry Cake. Soft, lemon cake layers with a strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream frosting. Delicious combination of sweet and tang!

Since I like cake, and since I’m currently making a point of posting recipes to the internet, it only made sense for me to make a cake for Mother’s Day. My sister-in-law is a mother, and deserves a great cake for being a great mother. So, I asked her what types of cakes she generally likes. She said something about strawberries and I knew what had to be done …. THIS.

Lemon Strawberry Cake. Soft, lemon cake layers with a strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream frosting. Delicious combination of sweet and tang!
Lemon Strawberry Cake. Soft, lemon cake layers with a strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream frosting. Delicious combination of sweet and tang!

Lemon Cake

I made lemon cake layers multiple times to get the right combination of moist, lemon, and rise. This recipe I’m sharing with you is THE one. I have tested it over and over to ensure it works, and because I can’t stop keep eating it.

Lemon Strawberry Cake. Soft, lemon cake layers with a strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream frosting. Delicious combination of sweet and tang!

This cake is just real good. I’m already thinking about other ways to use this lemon cake recipe. So stay tuned … I have a feeling this is just one of many ways it will be used!

9/7/19 Update: At one point in time I made a typo with the amounts of butter and oil. Please use the recipe below when making this cake. If you followed a link from another site, the ingredient amounts on that site may be incorrect. The recipe card below is what you need!

If you liked this cake, I use the same lemon cake layers for my Lemon Cake with Lemon Oreo Filling!

Lemon Strawberry Cake. Soft, lemon cake layers with a strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream frosting. Delicious combination of sweet and tang!
Lemon Strawberry Cake. Soft, lemon cake layers with a strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream frosting. Delicious combination of sweet and tang!

Lemon Strawberry Cake

Lemon Strawberry Cake. Soft, lemon cake with a strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream frosting. Delicious combination of sweet and tang!
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Course: Dessert
Servings: 1 8″ cake
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Ingredients

Cake Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
  • 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tbsp cornstarch
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 4 large eggs room temp
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice from about 1.5 large lemons
  • 1 tablespoon lemon zest from about 1 large lemon
  • 2/3 cup sour cream

Strawberry Filling

  • 16 ounce bag frozen strawberries thawed
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp cornstarch

Strawberry Frosting

  • 1/3-2/3 cup of strawberry puree made from frozen strawberries used in filling
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
  • 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
  • 4-5 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • pinch salt
  • 6-8 large strawberries for decorating
  • 1 lemon for decorating

Instructions

Cake Directions

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line three, 8″ round pans with parchment paper. Flour and butter sides of pan (I use baking PAM to do this).
  • In large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, salt, baking soda and baking powder.
  • In base of a stand mixer, whisk together sugar and lemon zest. Add softened butter and beat on medium-high speed until lightened and fluffy, about 1.5 minutes. Then, beat in eggs, one at a time, scraping down sides as needed.
  • Stir together oil and lemon juice in a small bowl. Then, alternate mixing in flour mixture and oil mixture in about 3 additions each. After each addition, start on low speed and gradually increase to medium-high for a few seconds. Once all flour and oil has been added, beat on medium-high until well combined. Finally, stir in sour cream until just combined.
  • Divide batter among the three prepared pans and bake for 27-30 minutes, or until tops are golden and toothpick in center of cake comes out with just a few crumbs. Do not open oven during baking time.
  • Let cakes cool in pans for at least 10 minutes before removing. Cool completely before frosting.

Strawberry filling

  • Put thawed strawberries in blender and puree until smooth. This will make about 1 3/4 cups of strawberry puree. Place 3/4 cup of the puree in a small sauce pan to use for filling. Set remaining puree aside until preparing frosting.
  • Add sugar, lemon juice and cornstarch to puree in sauce pan.
  • Heat over medium heat, whisking constantly, until sauce thickens, about 10-15 minutes. Remove from heat.
  • Transfer mixture to a heat safe container with lid, and place in fridge for at least 2 hours.

Frosting directions

  • In large mixing bowl, beat together butter and shortening on medium-high until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
  • Beat in 1/2 cup powdered sugar, followed by 1 tablespoon strawberry puree. Then beat in salt and vanilla. After this, add 1/2 powdered sugar and 1 tbsp strawberry puree at a time until desired consistency and strawberry taste is reached. NOTE: You will likely not use all of the powdered sugar or all of the puree (I use about 4 cups powdered sugar and about 1/2 cup of strawberry puree). Be careful when watching the consistency, if you put in too much of the puree, your frosting will become too liquid to stick well on the cake. 

Assembly

  • Level cakes and place one layer on a cardboard round.
  • Use frosting bag with large, round opening to pipe border around outside of cake. For this I use a #12 Wilton tip.
    cake layer piping
  • Fill inside of layer with half of cooled filling mixture.
    stawberry filling
  • Layer on second cake round and repeat. Place third layer on top.
  • Coat outside of cake with thin layer of frosting. Place cake in fridge for about 15-20 minutes.
    crumb coating
  • Remove cake and finish frosting. I used the #12 tip to pipe the bottom of the cake and the frosting decor on top. Decorate with strawberries and lemon peel as desired.
    top of cake

Disclaimer: All nutritional information provided on this website is an estimate only and is not guaranteed.

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Lemon Strawberry Cake. Soft, lemon cake layers with a strawberry filling and strawberry buttercream frosting. Delicious combination of sweet and tang!

If you enjoyed this Lemon Strawberry Cake, you should check out these other SugarSpicesLife recipes:

Almond Lemon Cake
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S T
S T
March 12, 2019 11:11 am

Hi.
I am excited to try this recipe.

Jackie Wooten
Jackie Wooten
July 31, 2019 5:20 pm

Can you use freeze dried strawberries?

Jackie D Wooten
Jackie D Wooten
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August 2, 2019 9:36 am

Thank you.

nicole avery
nicole avery
August 22, 2019 9:52 pm

was the cake good becasue i havent seen any comments on that

Kimberly
Kimberly
April 24, 2020 9:43 pm

Can you make this using fresh strawberries for the filling?

Lauren
Lauren
May 4, 2020 10:54 am

Does the recipe need to change at all if using 9inch pans?

Bobbie
Bobbie
May 24, 2020 3:05 pm

I made this cake yesterday and it was delicious! My icing separated and would just fall off the cake in places. Any ideas what would cause that?

Manal
Manal
December 22, 2020 12:28 pm

Thank you! I made this cake for my son’s birthday and it turned out great! Very delicious and the flavors are well balanced! The strawberry frosting was so good!

Liz
Liz
March 4, 2021 11:22 am

Beautiful looking cake, have made it twice, my husband enjoys it with ice cream on the side. But the frosting instructions are confusing. Do we use (a) the cooked and cooled strawberry puree for the frosting or (b) the uncooked puree? Specifically, the instructions call for the thawed strawberries to be put in a blended and pureed to make about 1 3/4 cups total, with some to be cooked and cooled for at least 2 hours “for use for filing” and to “set remaining puree aside until preparing frosting“. But the instructions for “Frosting directions” say in #2 to use… Read more »

Melissa
Melissa
June 10, 2021 5:26 pm

Can you use the cake batter to make cupcakes?

Renee
Renee
June 22, 2021 1:28 pm

Could you make this cake in advance and freeze? (cake, not frosting or puree, as I’m sure this would affect texture).

Kassi Boyden
Kassi Boyden
August 1, 2021 10:38 am

So excited to make this cake for my daughter’s birthday this weekend! We are having about 30 people over. How many servings is this 8″ cake? And what would you recommend for more people? I was thinking of doing an 11″ cake, maybe 4 layers, would you double or triple the recipe? Also, I love the beautiful color of the frosting, but have you tried coloring it? My daughter wants a Beauty and the Beast theme so I was thinking yellow, but maybe I’ll just do a separate simple, plain frosting in yellow for accents! Thanks!

Lauren
Lauren
April 19, 2022 9:47 pm

I’ve made this recipe a few times now and it is always SOO good, I’ve even switched up the filling and frosting for raspberry and no matter strawberry or raspberry it is always a hit. I love how the cake itself turns out, and was wondering if instead of lemon, do you think I could switch the lemon for orange (I wouldn’t be using the strawberry filling/frosting)? I’ve tried a couple orange cake recipes and the cake itself never seems to turn out right, so thinking perhaps just switching out the lemon for orange in this recipe would be okay… Read more »

Deanna Knoff
Deanna Knoff
August 19, 2022 10:50 pm

How much butter is used in the cake recipe? The card says 1/2 cup but in one of the comments below it mentions 1 cup.

Brian
Brian
January 8, 2023 10:46 am

I made this cake for my wife’s Birthday today and it came out wonderful. My first cake ever.


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