Amazing Strawberry Lemonade Cake Recipe

I just wanted to let you know that my ten-year-old son and I made this cake this week for my wife's birthday and it was such a success! Well, actually we had to make a modification because our grocery store was out of strawberries, so we made a raspberry lemonade cake, but everything else was exactly the same. This was the first time we had ever made a cake completely from scratch - no boxed cake mix, pre-made frosting, or artificial flavors. My wife says it's the best cake she's ever had. Thanks so much!

Ingredients For the Strawberry Reduction: ▢ 3 cups chopped fresh strawberries (500g) ▢ ½ cup granulated sugar (100g) ▢ ¼ cup lemon juice (about 2 lemons) For the Cake: ▢ 3 cups all-purpose flour (360g) ▢ 2 teaspoons baking powder ▢ ½ teaspoon baking soda ▢ ½ teaspoon salt ▢ 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature (227g) ▢ 2 cups granulated sugar (400g) ▢ 2 tablespoons lemon zest (about 2 lemons) ▢ 2 teaspoons vanilla extract ▢ 4 large eggs ▢ 1 cup whole milk room temperature (240ml) ▢ ¼ cup lemon juice (about 2 lemons) For the Buttercream: ▢ 2 cups unsalted butter room temperature (454g) ▢ 8 cups powdered sugar (about 2 pounds/ 900g) 6 tablespoons strawberry reduction (80ml) ▢ 2 tablespoons lemon juice ▢ 2 to 3 tablespoons heavy cream 3 8inch cake pans Oven at 350f Bake for 40 to 45 min

The fact that you also mention metric system units is a GREAT help! Thanks, John!

4 months late, but the best cake I ever had was from an elderly japanese woman at a mushroom foraging club. It was an incredibly rich and milky earl gray lavender cake (tasted like it had sweetened condensed milk in it) with an incredibly creamy, almost lemon curd or custard like lemony exterior. It tasted absolutely amazing. Like cream and lemon in earl gray lavender tea - but in the form of a cake with interesting textural qualities. It absolutely blew my mind, and I've tried / retried 3 or 4 times to make it.

ever since I started taking recipes from your website, I don't trust any other websites but yours I always go to your website to look for any recipe. You literally make me want to get into baking as a hobby and I really enjoyed baking the cakes I made from your recipe. I just made your chocolate cake for Family Day, my parents loved it!

Oh John, you’re killing me!!! Lemon and strawberry, perfect combo. This looks amazing! I love that you use a scale for measuring. Thank you for another great video.

❤ gotta say, Mary Berry would say add a decorative dusting of fresh lemon zest on top of the strawberries to finish the look and give the visual cue that there is lemon flavor. Nom nom nom.

My son had never baked a cake from scratch until March 2023. He made you Devil food cake for MY 40th bday and i only had one slice as EVERYONE ate it and loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!! since then he has made your carmel, your strawberry lemon and now your lemon cake for his great grandmothers 89th bday and they are alllllllllllllll a hit. You have turned my cake eating contractor into a contractor who makes creations that family and friend crave THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

I made this cake for my family brunch last weekend. It was delicious! Wasn't a crumb left!!!

Nothing better than being super hungry during Ramadan and watching his food videos haha

Thank you so much for offering Swiss or Italian meringue buttercream as an alternative! We hate American buttercream in my family. When I first discovered Swiss meringue buttercream only a few years ago, my husband was amazed and thrilled. I never made American buttercream before but it was such a pleasant surprise to discover that buttercream came in varieties that were not cloyinging sweet and one dimensional in flavor.

Combos I would love to see : banana + speculoos, lemon + blackberry, cherry + peach, rose + tea + orange blossom Love your videos by the way ❤

This looks so delicious, and I will have to bake it. I will have to use my homemade jam because the season is over in my part of the world. Can't wait for the book and all the delicious things I will get to make.

White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake recipe please!!! I absolutely love your classic Cheesecake recipe, and it would be AMAZING to have even just a regular Raspberry Cheesecake recipe!

I’d love to see a recipe for an ice cream cake!! This cake looks delicious!

Just made it for my girlfriend's birthday, no modifications to the recipe except for halving everything! I'm not a good cake decorator and I don't have the proper tools but the strawberries on top carried the aesthetics of it! It looks beautiful!

I made this cake honestly it turns out amazing couldn’t believe myself stared to love baking different cakes just bcuz of u Indeed ur an amazing baker and human 😊👍🏻

This strawberry lemonade cake looks amazing John! I'd definitely love to make this for a birthday celebration in the future. Looks so good! 🍓🍋🎂 🍰 😋

I love this 🍰 cake! I did a bit of a variation to this so I put beaten cream with sliced strawberries on a cut open cup cake!! Yummy!!!! Thanks Preppy kitchen, first sponge type cake I've made!!! Will definitely make it again 🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰😊😊😊😊💯💯💯

Even though we can't see your family, I can feel that they are proud of you in every way, I really watch everything you do with admiration, I hope I can find the strength to do these things. 😍🍓🥰🥰💖♥️🍓🍓